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ASP.NET “special” tags
Is there a proper name for <%...> in ASP.NET, or do people really call it "Angle Bracket Percent"?
Possible Duplicate:
ASP.NET “special” tags
Is there a proper name for <%...> in ASP.NET, or do people really call it "Angle Bracket Percent"?
See Meaning of the Various Symbols in aspx page for more information on this topic.
According to MSDN, they are called code render blocks.
in ASP.NET <% ... %>
represents server-side code which has been in-lined to an ASPX HTML document. The name would be dependent on which variety.
<% ... %>
Normal Code block
<%= ... %>
Serverside code wrapped in Response.Write()
<%# ... %>
Specific to Databinding
<%-- --%>
Server side comment
<%$ ... %>
for expression bindings
I've always called them code render blocks.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k6xeyd4z.aspx
In this blog post they're called code nuggets.
ScottGu's Blog
Its just a notation for an ASP/ASP.NET inline code block.