Setting asp.net button name and value

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It appears that ASP.NET WebForms automatically sets the values of the name and value attributes with the value of the ID attribute for an asp:Button. How dou you set custom values for those attributes? I tried it with MyButton.Attributes["name"] = "CustomName"

but then i have two name attributes in generated html.

I would like to use custom values to determine which button was clicked during a postback. I don't want to use CommandName or CommandArgument because when a postback occurs I just want to check for name and value. I don't want to care about whether a handwritten input element

(like <input type="submit" name="buttons" value="abc"></input>)

caused the postback or a input element generated by asp.net

Win · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-03 15:42:40Z

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You can use ClientIDMode property to static. However, you need to make sure that ID is unique within a page.

ASPX

<asp:Button runat="server" ID="CustomButton" Text="abc" ClientIDMode="Static" />

Render HTML

<input type="submit" name="CustomButton" value="abc" id="CustomButton" />

answered Dec 3, 2013 at 15:42

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user764754 Over a year ago

Unfortunately this requires ASP.NET 4. I use 3.5.

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