Chapter 13: Formatting Web Application Output

Chapter 13

Formatting Web Application Output

About This Chapter

ASP.NET provides two complementary ways for you to format output in a Web application:

• Use cascading style sheets (CSS) to control the appearance of elements on a Web form.

  These styles can set the color, size, font, and behavior of the HTML elements on a Web page.

• Use Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) to convert information from an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file to HTML output and position that information on a Web form.

  XSLT puts data from the XML file into HTML elements and applies styles to those elements.

In this chapter, you ll learn when and how to use each of these formatting techniques within a Web application.

Before You Begin

To complete this chapter, you must:

• Know how to create Web forms using HTML mode within Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

• Be familiar with the HTML elements used to create Web forms and HTML pages.