Yeah that’s a fair point Neil, that shows that within the placeholder, it’s predictable behaviour – anything with runat inside a placheholder will have the whitespacing around it removed.

However it’s a bit annoying that only the asp:placeholder that does this. the asp:panel doesn’t do that. It should be the same for all controls.

If you are building a large web app with different developers working on it, then you could get inconsistencies in style due to something like this, unless you updated your CSS to make it work in all possibilites – with and without whitespace.

I know some developers that don’t like using float: left to often in their css, as it causes it’s own set of problems!

Cheers for the info lads Still annoying though

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Or of the above doesn’t work … add the runat=”server” to the p element

p.s. you need a Preview button

Change the placeholder into a asp:panel, and again the whitespace is preserved…ARGH!!!

Now add <p>Some text</p> with whitespace above and below. Why does it preserve that whitespace…ARGH!!!

So it’s only the placeholder control that doesn’t preserver white space around input controls…any other control or markup it preserves the whitespace…ARGH!!!!

“Thank you for the report, this is actually intentional. Placeholder is not normally user in markup like this, it is essentially a ‘marker’ within a page… “

PS I never even noticed the difference between the whitespace being there and not being there, as FireBug lays out your Html nicely for you if it can.

It’s a common misconception that white-space makes no difference in HTML, but there are occasional when line breaks and spaces can change make noticeable differences in the layout.

The ASP Placeholder removes the white space which shouldn’t be necessary, which is what is leading to the difference.

Looks like Microsoft say this is intentional