Accessing master page div control

hi,
can you plz put this question in other thread because its not coming clearly in this tread. may be some design problem in this thread. plz put it on other thread i will help you.

i dont know it was an idea...but its all working well just one more issue.

The label thats suppose to populate with the username and say "Welcome Alrodean , you are now logged in" is not showing on the home page. This label is also on the MasterPage. I tried to access it using the HtmlGenericControls but it says cant cast Web.UI.WebControls with Web.Ui.HtmlControls

That div is displaying



so i am tryiing to access the "lbl4" and populate that with the username if it is successful on the home page.

why you are going to checking the login info in grid.

try to do it by checking it form database on login button click.

if login success then store the username in session and show the success page else show msg wrong user id.

Thanks i added the reference

System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

if i could send the thing im trying to do then you will what im actually doing...

I am new to asp.net and still learning alot i try to do more than what i am required. I am currently making a website "Project" but i would like to use a login as one feature i thought it would be cool, but its turning out to be more challenging than what i thought. I have 3 pages that does the login.

1st page. will have the controls on like textboxes etc and saving the sessions form the 2 textboxes "Username and password", once you click login it will go a second page, this is where i put a gridview and used the sessions to search the gridview for a match. if a match is found it directs back to the home where the

Where are u getting HtmlTextWriter ?

i made the div

if ur div is server control then use master.findcontrol to find the div and make visible =false in ur home page.
try below code in ur home page: