How can you move ASP.Net controls to different places on the Web form at runtime?

Question

Is there an accepted way to \"move\" a control.

My client wants to place a certain chunk of markup (representing some visual element) in one of several different pla

Answer 1

You could always put panels in the pre-defined locations and add the control to the specific panel at runtime.. Here's an example adding a label (the label could be replaced with any control).

Dim lblDisplay As Label = New Label()
lblDisplay.ID = "myLabel"
lblDisplay.Text = "Some Text"
pnlDisplay.Controls.Add(lblDisplay)

As far as...

"Also, I don't want to have to work with this control strictly from the code-behind for the same reason."

I think you're going to have to do most of your work in the code behind.

PS.. a good example of the whole usercontrol setup can be downloaded here.. http://www.asp.net/downloads/starter-kits/time-tracker/