can a table be copied to another table by an equal sign? if not then how

Question

how to copy table controls?

table2=table1?

asp.net C# vs 08 table control

reason, assume the below strings to be tables.

string full; string userinput

full=full+userinput;

so,?

Answer 1

No you can't. Table like any other control, is a reference type. It means that copying it just copies a reference to the real object instance. Because it doesn't implement System.ICloneable you have to create a new one and then copy properties manually one by one.

I would be curious to know why you are trying to do this, because it doesn't seem to follow any of the best practices that I am familiar with. Could you describe what you are trying to do?

One thing you could do is copy the contents of a table, although this won't copy the other properties such as styles and cell-padding etc:

        protected void CopyTable()
        {
            var clontable= new HtmlTable();
            var mytbl = form1.FindControl("mytable") as HtmlTable;
            if (mytbl != null)
            {
                HtmlTableRow myrow;
                HtmlTableCell mycell;

                for (int i = 0; i < mytbl.Rows.Count - 1; i++)
                {
                    myrow = new HtmlTableRow();
                    for (int j = 0; j < mytbl.Rows[i].Cells.Count - 1; j++)
                    {
                        mycell = new HtmlTableCell();
                        mycell.InnerHtml = mytbl.Rows[i].Cells[j].InnerHtml;
                        myrow.Cells.Add(mycell);
                    }
                    clontable.Rows.Add(myrow);
                }
                form1.Controls.Add(clontable);
            }
        }