<p>As I put together each asp.net page It's clear that most of the time I could use the standard HTML tags just as easily as the web forms controls.  When this is the case what is the lure of the webforms controls?</p>

[{'answer_id': 70342, 'author': 'Martin', 'author_id': 11481, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11481', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Webform controls have more server-side pre-built functionality (server side hooks, methods and attributes), I tend to use HTML controls only when I require a high degree of formatting (styling) as that bypasses the way .Net renders it's controls (which, at times, can be very strange).</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 70502, 'author': 'Rob Cooper', 'author_id': 832, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/832', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>HTML controls will be output a lot faster than server controls since there is nothing required on part of the server.. It just literally copies the markup in the ASPX page.</p>\n\n<p>Server controls however require instantiation.. Parsing of the postback data and the like, this is obviously where the work comes in for the server.</p>\n\n<p>The general rule of thumb is:</p>\n\n<p><strong>If its static (i.e. you dont need programmatic support), make it a HTML control. HTML controls can easily be "upgraded" to server controls so there is no <em>real</em> issue of maintanence at a later time.</strong></p>\n'}]
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