Literal Control

• The Literal control is used to display text on a page. The text is programmable.
• This control does not let you apply styles to its content!

Property	Description
id	A unique id for the control
runat	Specifies that the control is a server control.  Must be set to "server"
Text	Specifies the text to display

• Open Visual Studio
• Add a new webform
• Name it literal.aspx
• Click the Add button
• Select the Design View
• Add a label control and name it myLabel
• Add a literal control to the webform and name it myLiteral
• Erase the text in both controls

• Double-click the form and add this code:

myLabel.text=”Label Example”

myLiteral.text=”Literal Example”

right click and view in Browser

now right click the browser and view source

Notice the Label is displayed in a <span> tag

But the literal is just displayed

A literal control displays ONLY the value in the text property