Web forms provide a way for ASP.NET developers to quickly create web pages. This feature is object-oriented and can help you keep your web page generation code easier to maintain and improve. Here we look at common ways to use web forms in the ASP.NET web application framework.
You can insert plain text into a website using the asp:Literal markup or the LiteralControl element in C# code. The articles linked here describe how you can use literals in ASP.NET.
If you are using web forms, you can add meta elements to your website fairly easily. One example of this is adding a canonical link element, which can sometimes enhance search performance for sites.
The HtmlMeta type enables you to represent a metadata element for HTML inside C# code. You can use the HtmlMeta to add important information to the metadata of your webpages.
There is some information about master pages and their usage in this section as well. Master pages are still in wide usage and can help separate the template from the more specific content sections.
It is possible to remove the generated ID attribute from your web form projects in ASP.NET. You can simply set the ID to null to do this. I have been ridiculed for stating that the ID can be removed; please see the article for my evidence.
This is not strictly a web forms feature, but it is a markup feature for IIS pages. Server side comments can be used to remove text from pages before they are sent over the network; this can reduce page sizes.
The Visible property is one of the more useful ones for using web forms because it enables you to use a template and remove or add elements from it without creating them programmatically. The selected article describes the Visible property in more detail.