How Do I Change the render behavior of my custom control from being a span

Question

When writing a custom control it always rendered as an HTML span element. How can I change it for example to a div?

Answer 1

Derive your control from WebControl as follows:

public class MyCustomControl : WebControl {
    public MyCustomControl() : base(HtmlTextWriterTag.Div) {}
}

That is, use the base class constructor that accepts the tag to use.