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10 responses to “Removing the TABLE from the CreateUserWizard control”

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   Kevin

   2007.11.14

   Hey, this is a great article. I’m looking to do this exact thing. It’s been a while since you wrote this article so I’m wondering if you’ve had any more insights.

   I using this code but when I do, nothing shows up. I did add the customtemplate and CustomNavigationTemplate (with nothing in them). Is that sufficient? Also, is the CompleteWizardStep node required?

   Thanks in advance.

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   brian

   2007.11.14

   I would try the following, which I’ve used rather successfully on quite a few sites. Note that this will strip any HTML TABLEs from your markup, so don’t use any in your templates.

   public class CssCreateUserWizard : System.Web.UI.WebControls.CreateUserWizard
   {
       protected override void Render( HtmlTextWriter writer )
       {
           //write opening div
           writer.WriteBeginTag("div");
           writer.WriteAttribute("class", this.CssClass);
           writer.Write(HtmlTextWriter.TagRightChar);
   
           //get the rendered HTML
           StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
           StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sb);
           HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);
   
           //render output to string
           base.RenderContents(hw);
   
           //remove tables
           string str = sb.ToString();
           str = Regex.Replace(str, "</?table[^>]*>", String.Empty);
           str = Regex.Replace(str, "</?tr[^>]*>", String.Empty);
           str = Regex.Replace(str, "</?td[^>]*>", String.Empty);
           str = Regex.Replace(str, "</?thead[^>]*>", String.Empty);
           str = Regex.Replace(str, "</?tbody[^>]*>", String.Empty);
   
           writer.Write(str);
   
           //write closing div
           writer.WriteEndTag("div");
       }
   }
   

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3. 

   Kevin

   2007.11.14

   I’m no regex expert, but, the remove tables seems to do the same thing over and over again. It doesn’t remove the table, but it does remove the closing tags within my wizard and this causes a world of problems. I’m assuming the regex stuff should be more related to “table tag” stuff like table, tr, td, th, tbody. ? Am I on the right track?

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4. 

   brian

   2007.11.14

   Text got stripped out when the post was made, let me fix it…

   OK, should be better now. Damn web editors!

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5. 

   Kevin

   2007.11.14

   Actually… I think I got it. I changed the regex stuff to this:
   str = Regex.Replace(str, “]>|]>|]>|]>|]*>”, String.Empty);

   Seems to work great now! Thanks for all the help.

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   Kevin

   2007.11.14

   oooooh interesting… I just pasted my code and it appears your parser is removed the valuable syntax. I see the problem now. I’ll past it again with a space between each char. This will only be the actual regex string.

   ] * > | ] * > | ] * > | ] * > | ] * >

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   Kevin

   2007.11.14

   dang… that’s sneaky… I couldn’t even do it like that.. I’ll try replacing the code with html safe values. If this doesn’t work, I’ll stop comment spamming:

   </?table[^>]>|</?tr[^>]>|</?td[^>]>|</?thead[^>]>|</?tbody[^>]*>

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8. 

   brian

   2007.11.14

   The regex is now correct in my previous comment. Basically, it strips out TABLE, THEAD, TBODY, TR, and TD tags, which are those created by the CreateUserWizard adapter. You can use the same regex patterns with TFOOT, COLGROUP, COL, and TH to be more thorough (though it’s unnecessary as they are not used).

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9. 

   RA

   2010.03.09

   “Create user” button is disappeared

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10. 

    RA

    2010.03.09

    replace
    base.RenderContents(hw);
    on
    base.Render(hw);

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