title: Why is my CSS not being applied to <asp:Linkbutton> having classCss property? Although it gets applied on a simple HTML button tag
body: <p>I am having trouble in applying my external CSS on asp:LinkButton tag. When Css is applied on simple button tag it works fine in case of asp:LinkButton tag its not working. Need Help!</p>
  
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  <pre><code> &lt;form id="form1" runat="server"&gt;
          &lt;div class="wrapper"&gt; &lt;div class="input-group"&gt;
                              &lt;input type="text" name="q" class="form-control" placeholder="Search..." /&gt;
                              &lt;span class="input-group-btn"&gt;
                                  &lt;button type='submit' name='search' id='search-btn' class="btn btn-flat"&gt;&lt;i class="fa fa-search"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/button&gt;
                              &lt;/span&gt;
                              &lt;span class="input-group-btn"&gt;
                                  &lt;asp:LinkButton  runat="server" id="LinkButton1" CssClass="btn btn-flat"&gt;&lt;i class="fa fa-search"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/asp:LinkButton&gt;
                              &lt;/span&gt;
                          &lt;/div&gt;
                        &lt;/div&gt;
                      &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>