This is a small article which describes small code snippet which can be used to get access to the Html Form Control of an Aspx Page.
Given below is code for a class by name BasePage.
using
System;
using
System.Collections;
using
System.ComponentModel;
using
System.Data;
using
System.Drawing;
using
System.Web;
using
System.Web.SessionState;
using
System.Web.UI;
using
System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using
System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
namespace
HandlerTest
{
public class BasePage:Page
{
private HtmlForm _pageform = null;
protected HtmlForm PageForm
{
get
{
return _pageform;
}
}
protected override void AddedControl(Control control, int index)
{
if(control is HtmlForm)
{
_pageform = control
as HtmlForm;
}
base.AddedControl (control, index);
}
protected bool HasForm
{
get
{
return (_pageform != null);
}
}
}
}
This class is derived from the Page class of System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace.
Here we are overiding the AddedControl method of the base class and verfying if the control being added is a HtmlForm control and if it is then we are assigning the control to the _pageform variable.
Also the property PageForm allows us to access the Form Control from any class derived from the BasePage Class.