Hi,

I have, what I believe should be, a simple requirement. I want to modify the layout of a skin by grabbing a parameter from the page URL and employing that parameter (using some VB in the skin.ascx) to control the visibility of <div> elements within the skin.

Here's the issue. In order to control visibility using e.g. mydiv.visibility = true/false then you have to add runat=server to the div tag i.e. <div id="mydiv" runat="server">....and in so doing mydiv is turned into a 'pane' and the id automatically changed by dnn to dnn_mydiv - which is not what I want.

Is there anyway of preventing DNN from creating a pane when adding runat=server ?

Is there any other way of controlling visibility of a an element without using javascript?

Any input or pointers greatly appreciated.

Phil

ps - I don't want to use css display:none; because I want to prevent certain html being sent to the broswer even if it is hidden.

Thanks for the reply Timo. I realise I can also use

<asp:Panel>
<div id="mydiv">
</asp:Panel>

or even

<asp:Panel id="mydiv"> x y z </asp:Panel>

as Panel doesn't get converted to a pane.

P