Traditionally, developers using
Web controls enjoyed increased productivity but at the cost of control over the rendered markup. For instance, many ASP.NET controls automatically wrap their content in <code><table></code> for layout or styling purposes. This behavior runs counter to the
web standards that have evolved over the past several years, which favor cleaner, terser HTML; sparing use of tables; and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets">Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)</a> for layout and styling. Furthermore, the <code><table></code> elements and other automatically-added content makes it harder to both style the
Web controls using CSS and to work with the controls from client-side
