In ASP.NET 4.0, they’ve introduced support for cleaner HTML syntax. You can read about it at Scott Gu’s blog. If you want the classic model for Client IDs, you can adjust your web.config:
<configuration>
<system.web>
<pages controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion="3.5" />
And that’ll make upgrading your application easier. You can change this per control (and per page) by using the Control.ClientIDMode
property, which can also be set in the web config:
<configuration>
<system.web>
<pages clientIDMode="AutoID|Predictable|Static|Inherit" />
AutoID
renders the controls with the classic ASP.NET 2.0 model.