getting id of literal control

Question

I am working Asp.net and c#.

In my application i have a Autocomplete textbox with literal control.I need to get the Id of that literal control in my codebehind,but i couldn't get because there is no runat attribute.If i use runat attribute my Autocomplete is not working.please give me some sugessions to solve this problem.

code:

      <input ID="txtrecipient"/>

* Note :I need the id txtrecipient in codebehind.

Answer 1

The simplest solution is using server control with attribute runat="server" and set its ClientIDMode=Static.

If you don't want to change ClientIDMode, you can also access the client id of the textbox on client side. See below example:

<script>
     document.getElementById("<%= txtrecipient.ClientID %>").value = "";
     ... or
     $("<%= txtrecipient.ClientID %>").autoComeplete();
</script>