Shrinking the markup possible? - Sitefinity - Ideas & Feature Requests

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Posted by Community Admin on 12-May-2011 00:00

Every ID is obnoxious in the backend and frontend with browse\edit enabled

I realize its mostly asp.nets retarded AutoID, but like...

<span id="Content_ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_sidebar_ctl07_ctl00_ctl07_ctl00_buttonText">Last <strong>5 years</strong></span>

Is that nessesary?

or this

<span id="Content_ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_lockWindow_ctl00_ctl02_buttonText">Cancel</span>

I mean there's no CSS class assigned to either of these so why do they even need IDs over the wrapping anchors? If it's a custom control couldn't it just render the span with the text directly?

Posted by Community Admin on 16-May-2011 00:00

Hello Steve,

By default we use the Predictable ClientID mode which was introduced with ASP.NET 4.0. However the longer ids which you are seeing in places in the backend are because those controls have their naming container explicitly set to use AutoID. The need for this arises from the fact that we have moved Sitefinity 4.0 from .NET 3.5 to 4.0. There was a huge overhead for some backend controls, because in order to use the new naming convention they had to be rewritten. Unfortunately at the moment there isn't much that can be done to improve the IDs of those controls.

All the best,
Radoslav Georgiev
the Telerik team

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