Sysadmin Field Notes

March 25, 2005

I'd like to nominate this gem as the ugliest workaround of the year:

2) For a RadioButtonList The HTML is created for us. We cannot insert extra tags between the radio button and its label. However, we can use client code to insert these tags after the HTML arrives at the client. The following code demonstrates this. This code can be added directly to the HTML, or you can use Page.RegisterStartupScript.

<script>
var s;
s = document.all("RadioButtonList1").item(0).outerHTML;
s = s.replace(/<LABEL/gi,"</td><td><LABEL");
document.all("RadioButtonList1").item(0).outerHTML = s;
</script>

Wow. How about we just do away with the whole "drag and drop"/event driven/vb6 model for serious web applications that actually want to be maintainable instead?