What is the difference between Label and Literal ?

Label control

1. Label control (by default) is rendered as HTML Tag i.e. the Text is enclosed within the HTML Tags. When AssociatedControlID property is set for the Label control it is then rendered as HTML Tag i.e. the Text is enclosed within the HTML Tags.

2. Label control can be styled i.e. its Font, Color, Font Size, etc. can be easily changed.

3. Label control can be easily accessed via JavaScript or jQuery.

4. Generally used for displaying Text content on Web pages.

Literal control

1. Literal control is rendered as is i.e. it is not enclosed within any HTML Tags.

2. Literal control cannot be styled as it does not use any HTML tag.

3. Literal control in spite of giving ID is rendered without ID hence cannot be accessed via JavaScript or jQuery.

4. Generally used for adding HTML content on page for example suppose you want to add HTML

Tag and if you would use Label it would not be correct HTML since as per W3C Standards an HTML

cannot be rendered within a or tag.

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Shubham Kumar11y ago
Accepted answer
Basically the label control is used for showing text content when asp:label render it will become span and literal control is used for displaying the html content and text also but if you trying to render html from label so it is also possible

like :
you hv a label so

label.text=""
literal.text=""

they both giving the same result and it is input box on page try it...
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Rajeesh Menoth11y ago
Hi Ruchi Mishra,

Label control

1. Label control (by default) is rendered as HTML Tag i.e. the Text is enclosed within the HTML Tags. When AssociatedControlID property is set for the Label control it is then rendered as HTML Tag i.e. the Text is enclosed within the HTML Tags.
2. Label control can be styled i.e. its Font, Color, Font Size, etc. can be easily changed.
3. Label control can be easily accessed via JavaScript or jQuery.
4. Generally used for displaying Text content on Web pages.

Literal control

1. Literal control is rendered as is i.e. it is not enclosed within any HTML Tags.
2. Literal control cannot be styled as it does not use any HTML tag.
3. Literal control in spite of giving ID is rendered without ID hence cannot be accessed via JavaScript or jQuery.
4. Generally used for adding HTML content on page for example suppose you want to add HTML
Tag and if you would use Label it would not be correct HTML since as per W3C Standards an HTML
cannot be rendered within a or tag.

The answer is helpful.Then please accept the answer..!!!
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