Format on a panel?

[VBAHole22]

I like using panels because you can hide and show stuff in blocks rather than writing dozens of .Visible statements. But when you take a nice neat block of label and textbox objects and drag them into a panel they get all jumbled.

And it seems like you don't have any control over formatting at all in a panel. you are the mercy of the IDE as to where stuff goes.

Am I missing something here or is there an easy way to format a panel's contents? Or should I be using something else instead of a panel?

All I really want is 2 blocks of objects that get hidden or show up based on a check box.

Any suggestions?

[eramgarden]

I'd say dont use IDE. Use the HTML, add your panel, add the stuff in it. To position the panel, use CSS.

 

For example,

 

<asp:panel runat=server id= whatever cssClass=whatever>

...put your stuff here.

 

</asp:panel>

[Robby]

Place your controls in html Table tags then all that into a panel