Error message- Type 'Button' must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server in master page.

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i m not able to add button on my master page:-

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<head>
<title>Employee Quotient</title>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type" />
    <link href="Styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="iefixes.css" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
  <div id="header">
    <div id="logo">
      <h1><a href=""><img style="width: 140px; height: 80px;" src="../images/logo.png" alt="" /></a></h1>
    </div>
    <div id="search">
      <div>
          <asp:Label ID="lblUser" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label>
          <asp:Button ID="btnLogout" runat="server" Text="Logout" />          
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div id="menu">
    <ul>
      <li><a href="">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="">Report</a></li>
      <li><a href="">Profile</a></li>      
    </ul>
  </div>
  <div class="clear-fix" id="wrapper">
  </div>

  <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="cphContent" runat="server" />
  
</div>

I m getting this error "Control 'btnLogout' of type 'Button' must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server. "

Posted 2-Jul-12 21:33pm

Dharmenrda Kumar Singh

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Sandeep Mewara 3-Jul-12 4:26am

are you exporting anything to PDF, Word, etc in your code behind?

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Solution 2

Just Add

EnableEventValidation="false"

in the page tag of aspx page.

Posted 28-Mar-14 1:58am

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-02T21:48:00

Solution 1

The error message is pretty explicit: "must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server"

So the solution is in the question, no?

XML

<form id="MyForm" method="post" runat="server">
UI code
</form>

Posted 2-Jul-12 21:48pm

OriginalGriff

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AmitGajjar 3-Jul-12 5:20am

correct... form is missing... 5+