Panel class properties and its descriptions

Property

Description

Supported in .NET version

AccessKey

This property returns or sets the access key that allows software developer to quickly navigate to the Web server control.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Adapter

This property gets the browser-specific adapter for the control.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

AppRelativeTemplateSourceDirectory

Software developer can use this property to set or get the application-relative path to the page or user control that contains the current control.  If the web page is installed in https://www.somesite.com/apps/application1 the property will return “~/application1”.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Attributes

This property is a collection which contains a collection of all attributes declared in the opening tag of a Web server control. Software developer can control programmatically the attributes associated with a Web server control. He/she can add or remove attributes to/from the collection.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

BackColor

The property is used to specify the background color of the Web server control. Software developer can set it using a System.Drawing..::.Color object.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

BackImageUrl

This property gets or sets the URL of the background image for the panel control. Its default value is  String.Empty. If the image is smaller than the Panel, it will be tiled to fill in the Panel.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

BindingContainer

Software developer can’t use this property directly from his/her code, because it supports the .NET Framework infrastructure.  The property contains a reference to the Control object which contains data-binding information for the current control.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

BorderColor

The property is used to specify the border color of the Web server control. Software developer can set it using a System.Drawing..::.Color object.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

BorderStyle

Specifies the type of the control’s border. Software developer can choose one of the values from the BorderStyle enumeration – Dashed, Dotted, Double, Grrove, Ridge, Inset, Outset, Solid and None.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

BorderWidth

Specifies the size of the control’s border.  When software developer sets this property he/she should use combination of a numeric value followed by type of measurement: px (for pixels) or % (for percentage) and so on.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

ChildControlsCreated

Gets a true value that indicates whether the server control’s child controls have been created.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

ClientID

Returns the server control identifier generated by ASP.NET. The ClientID value is generated by concatenating the ID value of the control and the UniqueID value of its parent control. If the ID value of the control is not specified, an automatically generated value is used. Each part of the generated ID is separated by an underscore character (_).

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

ClientIDSeparator

The ClientID value is generated by concatenating the ID value of the control and the UniqueID value of its parent control. Each part of the generated ID property is separated by the ClientIDSeparator property value. The value always returns an underscore (_).

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Context

Software developer can use this property to access the HttpContext object for the current Web request. Using properties of the object software developer can access objects Application, Session, Request, Response, etc. which contain information about the current HTTP request. The object provides methods that allow him to get configuration information and to set or clear errors related to the request.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Controls

This property allows software developer to access programmatically to the instance of the ControlCollection class for any server control. Using it he/she can add/remove controls to/from the collection or iterate through the server controls in the collection.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

ControlStyle

This property is used to encapsulate all properties of the WebControl class that specify the appearance of the control, such as BorderColor and Font. This property is used primarily by control developers.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

ControlStyleCreated

This property is used primarily by control developers. Returns a true value if a Style object has been created for the ControlStyle property; otherwise false.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

CssClass

Software developer can use this property to specify the CSS class to render on the client for the Web Server control. This property will render on browsers for all controls. On browsers that do not support CSS, setting the CssClass property will have no effect.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

DefaultButton

This property gets or sets the identifier for the default button that is contained in the Panel control. Its default value is an empty string, indicating that the Panel does not have a default button. The property is used to indicate which button gets clicked when the Panel control has focus and the user presses the ENTER key. The property can be set to the identifier for a Button control or any control that implements the IButtonControl interface except a LinkButton control. If the property is set to a control that does not implement the IButtonControl interface, or to a control that is not contained in the Panel control, the Panel control throws an exception while rendering. Setting the DefaultButton property is not supported for the following scenarios:

–          Setting focus outside of the input controls in the panel and then pressing the ENTER key. The default post back action is not guaranteed to trigger.

–          Pressing the ENTER key with focus inside a multi-line textbox. In a multi-line textbox, pressing the ENTER key should create a new line in the textbox which is the expected behavior. In browsers where the pressing the ENTER key inside a multi-line textbox triggers a post back but Web developer wants the ENTER key to create a new line instead he/she can attach a JavaScript function to the input control. The script should capture the ENTER key and stop the post back.

–          Referencing a default button that is a LinkButton control. Only Button and ImageButton controls are supported.

–          Changing the property programmatically during an asynchronous post back when the Panel control is not inside of an UpdatePanel control. Asynchronous post backs can be enabled on a page by adding one or more UpdatePanel controls to the page. UpdatePanel controls can be used to update selected regions of a page instead of updating the whole page with a postback.

–          Setting this property by themes or style sheet themes.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

DesignMode

This property returns true to indicate that the control is being used in the context of a designer. Software developer’s custom controls can use this property when design-time behavior is different than run-time behavior.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Direction

This property gets or sets the direction in which to display controls that include text in a Panel control. Its default value is NotSet. The property is used to specify the display direction for controls that include text in a Panel control. This property is set using one of the ContentDirection enumeration values:

–          NotSet – The content direction is not set.

–          LeftToRight – The content direction is left to right.

–          RightToLeft – The content direction is right to left.

If Web developer specifies LeftToRight, child controls that include text display from left to right. If Web developer specifies RightToLeft, child controls that include text display right to left.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Enabled

Software developer should set this property to true when he/she wants to specify or determine whether a control is functional. When developer sets to false, the control appears dimmed, preventing any input from being entered in the control. Notes:

• Not all browsers support this property. Dimming and locking the control only works in browsers that are compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4 and later.
• In a custom composite control, this behavior does not apply to controls that have not yet created their child controls.
• A disabled control can support postbacks. It is possible for a user who is viewing the page with a disabled control to craft a request that submits a postback that is processed by the page.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

EnableTheming

This property overrides Control. EnableTheming.

The property indicates whether themes are enabled for a specified control. When the property’s value is true, the application’s theme directory is searched for control skins to apply. If for the particular control skin does not exist in the directory, skins are not applied. When the property’s value is false, the theme directory is not searched and the contents of the SkinID property are not used.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

EnableViewState

Software developer must enable view state for the server control setting its value to true if he/she wants to maintain its state across HTTP requests. Sometimes is better to set value of this property to false if for example Web application is loading a database request into a server control. In this case application performance will be improved.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Events

This read-only property returns a list of event handler delegates for the control. The type of this property is EventHadlerList, which uses a linear search algorithm to find entries in the list of delegates. When the list of delegates is large, finding entries with this property will be slow, because a linear search algorithm is inefficient when working with a large number of entries.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Font

Software developer can use this property to specify the font properties of the Web Server control. This property includes subproperties that can be accessed declaratively in the form of Property-Subproperty (for example Font-Bold) or programmatically in the form of Property.Subproperty (for example Font.Bold).

All but one subproperty will render in browsers prior to Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4 for all controls. They are: Bold, Italic, Name, Names, Strikeout, Underline, and Size (but only named font sizes, such as Small, Smaller, and so on, will work).

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

ForeColor

Software developer can use this property to to specify the foreground color of the Web server control. The foreground color is usually the color of the text. This property will render on browsers earlier than Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4 for all controls, except the Image, AdRotator, HyperLink and LinkButton.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

GroupingText

Returns or sets the caption for the group of controls that is contained in the panel control.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

HasAttributes

This property returns true when the WebControl instance has attribute name/value pairs. The attribute pairs can be set either in the property or in the view state.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

HasChildViewState

Software developer can use this property to verify that any child controls of the server control are storing view-state information. Using it in this way he/she can avoid unnecessary calls to the ClearChildViewState method.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Height

This property is used to specify the height of the Web server control. When software developer sets this property he/she should use combination of a numeric value followed by type of measurement: px (for pixels) or % (for percentage) and so on.This property does not render for all controls in browsers earlier than Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4. Controls that do not render this property in earlier browsers include Label, HyperLink, LinkButton, and any validation controls. The CheckBoxList, RadioButtonList and DataList also do not render this property in earlier browsers when their RepeatLayout property is set to RepeatLayout.Flow. Furthermore, only unit types of Pixel and Percentage are supported in earlier browsers.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

HorizontalAlign

Returns or sets the horizontal alignment of the contents within the panel.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

ID

Web developers can set this property by declaring ID attribute in the opening tag of an ASP.NET server control. Another possible way to set it is programmatically. If this property is not specified for a server control, either declaratively or programmatically, Web developer can obtain a reference to the control through its parent control’s Controls property.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

IdSeparator

Software developer can’t use this property directly from his/her code, because it supports the .NET Framework infrastructure.   The character contained in this property ( by default $ ) is used to separate the control identifiers for child controls. The ID separator character is appended to the ID property.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

IsChildControlStateCleared

This property has value true if children of this control do not use control state; otherwise, false.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

IsEnabled

This property returns true if the Enabled property is true for this control and any containing controls.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

IsTrackingViewState

This property returns value true if the control is marked to save changes to its view state; otherwise, false.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

IsViewStateEnabled

This property returns value true if view state is enabled for the control; otherwise false.  View state can be enabled at the page, container, or control level. When view state is disabled at the page or container level, view state is disabled for all controls contained by the page or container. The property indicates whether view state is enabled by pages, containers, or controls. In some cases it is possible values for the EnableViewState property and the IsViewStateEnabled property to be different. For example, if the Page containing the control has view state disabled, the EnableViewState property can be true while the IsViewStateEnabled property is false. Notes: Developers will set the EnableViewState property to indicate whether they are using view state with your control. Web developers can use this property in their code to determine whether view state is enabled for their control and all containers.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

LoadViewStateByID

This property returns value true if the control loads its view state by ID; otherwise, false. Its default value is false.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

NamingContainer

Using this property software developer can get a reference to the server control’s naming container, which creates a unique namespace for differentiating between server controls with the same Control.ID property value.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Page

Provides a reference to the web page that contains this control as a System.Web.UI.Page object.  This property’s value reflects the name of the .aspx file that contains the server control.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Parent

This property provides a reference to the control that contains this control. If the control is placed on the page directly (rather than inside another control), it will return a reference to the page object.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

ScrollBars

Returns or sets the visibility and position of scroll bars in a Panel control. The property is used to specify the visibility and position of scroll bars in a Panel control. This property is set using one of the ScrollBars enumeration values:

– None – No scroll bars are shown

– Horizontal – Only a horizontal scroll bar is shown

– Vertical – Only a vertical scroll bar is shown.

-Both – Both horizontal and vertical scroll bars are shown.

– Auto – If necessary, horizontal, vertical, or both scroll bars are shown. Otherwise, no scroll bars are shown.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Site

Using this property software developer can get information about the container that hosts the current control when rendered on a design surface.  A site binds a Component object to a Container object and enables communication between the two. It also provides a way for the container to manage its components.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

SkinID

This property overrides Control.SkinID.

Web developer can get or set the skin to apply to the control.  Skins available to a control are contained in one or more skin files in a theme directory. The SkinID property specifies which of these skins to apply to the control. A skin is specific to a particular control i.e. software developer cannot share skin setting between controls of different types. If developer does not set the SkinID property, a control uses the default skin if one is defined.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Style

Web developer can use this property to get a collection of text attributes that will be rendered as a style attribute on the outer tag of the Web server control. This property will render on all browsers for all controls.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

TabIndex

With this number software developer can control the tab order. The control with a TabIndex of  zero has the focus when the page first loads. If end user presses Tab his/her focus will be moved to the control with the next lowest TabIndex. This property is available only in Internet Explorer 4.0 and higher.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

TagKey

Web developers can use this property to get the HtmlTextWriterTag value that corresponds to this Web server control. This property is used primarily by control developers.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

TagName

Web developers can use this property to get the name of the control tag. This property is used primarily by control developers.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

TemplateControl

This property is used to get or set a reference to the template that contains this control.

2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

TemplateSourceDirectory

Software developer can use this property to get the path to the page or user control that contains the current control.  If the web page is installed in https://www.somesite.com/apps/application1 the property will return “apps/application1”.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

ToolTip

This property displays a text message when the end users hover the mouse above the control.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

UniqueID

This property can be used to get the unique, hierarchically qualified identifier for the server control. This property differs from the ID property, in that the UniqueID property includes the identifier for the server control’s naming container. This identifier is generated automatically when a page request is processed. This property is particularly important in differentiating server controls contained within a data-binding server control that repeats as Repeater, DataList, DetailsView, FormView, and GridView Web server controls.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

ViewState

Web developers can use this property to get a dictionary of state information that allows them to save and restore the view state of a server control across multiple requests for the same page.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

ViewStateIgnoresCase

This property returns true if StateBag object is insensitive; otherwise, false. Its default value is false.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Visible

Web developers can use this property to get or set a value that indicates whether a server control is rendered as UI on the page. If the control is visible on the page this property will has value true; otherwise false.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Width

This property is used to specify the width of the Web server control. When software developer sets this property he/she should use combination of a numeric value followed by type of measurement: px (for pixels) or % (for percentage) and so on.This property does not render for all controls in browsers earlier than Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4. Controls that do not render this property in earlier browsers include Label, HyperLink, LinkButton, and any validation controls. The CheckBoxList, RadioButtonList and DataList also do not render this property in earlier browsers when their RepeatLayout property is set to RepeatLayout.Flow. Furthermore, only unit types of Pixel and Percentage are supported in earlier browsers.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

Wrap

Returns or sets a value indicating whether the content wraps within the panel. Its default value is true i.e. the content wraps within the panel.

1.0,1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0