Meta Attribute in Asp.NET

Question

Hi,

I was wondering what the logic is behind meta attribute. For example in asp.net for localization we can use something like this to localize a control :

<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="DefaultText" 
meta:resourcekey="Button1" />

So what's the logic of meta:resourcekey="Button1".Is there any different usage of meta tags like in this example ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

For hiding your asp.net tag attribute from HTML output

You have an attribute and you want to hide this attribute in your HTML output . It useful when you dont want extra junk in your response then use “meta:”

Example:

<asp:Label id="myLabel" runat="server"  text=”hello”  myattribute="mello"  />

Output is

<span myattribute="mello">hello </span>

with using meta:

<asp:Label id="myLabel" runat="server"  text="hello"  meta:myattribute="mello"  />

output is

<span>hello</span>

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