How do you get an asp.net control's auto generated name attribute?

Question

I have a DropDownList and need to know its name in the code behind:

<select name="ctl00$cphMainContent$ddlTopic" onchange="javascript:setTimeout('__doPostBack(\'ctl00$cphMainContent$ddlTopic\',\'\')', 0)" id="ctl00_cphMainContent_ddlTopic">
<option value="All">All</option>
</select>

I need to get the value "ctl00$cphMainContent$ddlTopic"

Is that possible?

Answer 1

myddl.ClientID / myddl.UniqueID, depending on what you need, name or id attribute.