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Customizes the look and layout of ASP.NET server controls that support templates.

<templatename>
   Server control, databinding syntax, and so on
</templatename>

templatename

The name of the ASP.NET server control template.

The following ASP.NET server controls support templates: the Repeater Web Server Control, the DataList Web Server Control, and the DataGrid Web Server Control. You can use template properties to customize the appearance of server controls on the pages in which they appear. You can include multiple template properties in a server control declaration. Template syntax must be contained between the opening and closing tags of one of these server controls or between the opening and closing tags of a custom server control you have created ) For information about developing controls that can use inline style templates, see Developing Templated Controls.

The below code snippet shows how you can display a list of employee names, phone numbers, and email addresses using templates in the DataList ASP.NET control. The layout of the employee information is specified in the ItemTemplate template using data-bound controls.

<asp:DataList id="myDataList" runat="server">

   <HeaderTemplate>
      Employee List
   <HeaderTemplate>

   <ItemTemplate>
      <asp:Label runat=server
         Text = "<% Container.DataItem.EmployeeName %>" />
      <asp:Label runat=server
         Text = "<% Container.DataItem.PhoneNumber %>" />
      <asp:HyperLink runat=server
         Text = "<% Container.DataItem.Email %>"
         NavigateURL = "<% Container.DataItem.Link %>" />
 )
   </ItemTemplate>

</asp:DataList>

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