We have an existing website which we had an outside entity redesign for us using HTML5. Our site uses webforms (converting to MVC isn't an option due to time constraints -- I have limited experience with it and would have to come up to speed with it).
I'd like to make use of some of the newer HTML5 input types but it appears that using WebControls won't necessarily work for input types (email, tel, url, date, etc.) because there is property to allow me to override the type property. While I haven't used
them much, I thought I could use server-side HtmlControls instead. I noticed using Visual Studio 2013 has IntelliSense support for all the HTML5 input types. However, when I run the site and view the page, I get an HttpException that says "'email' is not
a valid type for an input tag".
Is there a way to get around this or am I going to have to stick with the <input type="text"> variety? I also want to conti ...
Go to the complete details ...