On another forum I was asking where the styling capabilities of am ASP.NET web control were documented and was essentially told that they weren't so basically I should "read the source, Luke", meaning study the rendered HTML and code to that.
I'm a bit of an ASP.NET newbie but coming from a C++ background that
seems like reading the assembly code that gets generated by the
compiler and coding to take advantage of some discovery I made that
way. It might work great until someone changes the compiler or some
optimization setting. Generally it would be considered really bad
practice. Good practice would be to stick to what's documented in the ISO standard, the ARM, or other authoritative source.
How is studying the rendered HTML any different?
Does Microsoft promise to always generate the same HTML, the same way,
for a given web control?
My understanding - correct me if I'm wrong, 'caus ...
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