A Form is the outermost grouping of controls in a mobile page. All mobile controls must be placed inside a form. You can add multiple forms to a page, although only one will be visible at a time. To change the currently displayed form, you can set the ActiveForm property, or you can create a Link control with a Link.NavigateUrl set to the name of the desired form (preceded by the # symbol). Forms cannot be nested (although you can nest one or more Panel controls).

The Form control supports literal text. You can also insert markup tags directly into the literal text of a Form. Supported tags include <a> (anchor), <b> (bold), <i> (italic), <br> (line break), and <p> (paragraph). These tags will be rendered in a device-independent manner, which means that a <p> could conceivably be translated into a <br> tag if required by the client device. In order to ensure compatibility across a broad range of devices, all other tags are ignored, and will never affect the control's output.

public class Form : Panel, System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler {
// Public Constructors
   public Form( );
// Public Instance Properties
   public string Action{set; get; }
   public override bool BreakAfter{set; get; }                   // overrides Panel
   public Control ControlToPaginate{set; get; }
   public int CurrentPage{set; get; }
   public Panel Footer{get; }
   public Panel Header{get; }
   public FormMethod Method{set; get; }
   public int PageCount{get; }
   public PagerStyle PagerStyle{get; }
   public Panel Script{get; }
   public string Title{set; get; }
// Protected Instance Properties
   protected override bool PaginateChildren{get; }               // overrides Panel
// Public Instance Methods
   public override void CreateDefaultTemplatedUI(                // overrides Panelbool doDataBind);
   public IList GetLinkedForms(int optimumPageWeight);
   public virtual bool HasActivateHandler( );
   public virtual bool HasDeactivateHandler( );
   public override void PaginateRecursive( );          // overrides PanelControlPager pager
// Protected Instance Methods
   protected override void LoadPrivateViewState(object state);                 // overrides MobileControl
   protected virtual void OnActivate(EventArgs e);
   protected override void OnDataBinding(EventArgs e);          // overrides MobileControl
   protected virtual void OnDeactivate(EventArgs e);
   protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e);                 // overrides Panel
   protected virtual void OnPaginated(EventArgs e);
   protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e);            // overrides MobileControl
   protected override void Render(System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter writer);
 // overrides MobileControl 
   protected override object SavePrivateViewState( );             // overrides MobileControl
// Events
   public event EventHandler Activate;
   public event EventHandler Deactivate;
   public event EventHandler Paginated;
}

Hierarchy

System.Object System.Web.UI.Control(System.ComponentModel.IComponent, System.IDisposable, System.Web.UI.IParserAccessor, System.Web.UI.IDataBindingsAccessor) MobileControl(System.Web.UI.IAttributeAccessor) Panel(ITemplateable) Form(System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler)

Returned By

System.Web.UI.MobileControls.Adapters.HtmlFormAdapter.Control, System.Web.UI.MobileControls.Adapters.WmlFormAdapter.Control, System.Web.UI.MobileControls.Adapters.WmlMobileTextWriter.CurrentForm, MobileControl.{Form, ResolveFormReference( )}, MobilePage.{ActiveForm, GetForm( )}

Passed To

System.Web.UI.MobileControls.Adapters.HtmlPageAdapter.{GetFormUrl( ), IsFormRendered( ), RenderForm( ), RenderPostBackHeader( )}, System.Web.UI.MobileControls.Adapters.WmlMobileTextWriter.{BeginForm( ), RenderBeginForm( )}, System.Web.UI.MobileControls.Adapters.WmlPageAdapter.{IsFormRendered( ), RenderForm( )}, ControlPager.ControlPager( ), MobilePage.ActiveForm