Controls versus standard HTML

Question

I\'m getting into ASP.NET (C# - I know it doesn\'t matter for this particular question, but full disclosure and all that), and while I love that the asp:-style

Answer 1

If the ID's prefix added by ASP.NET is an issue for you to access them later using JS or something... you have the .ClientID property server side.

If the overhead added by ASP.NET you should consider ASP.NET MVC (still preview) where you have full control over the emitted html.

I'm moving to MVC because I don't like all that stuffs added too....