stevo_ said:

JChung2006 said:

*snip*

That was already suggested over a year ago, the topic has since changed to a request about why HtmlAnchor acts like this.. but yes caching asp.net controls isn't suggested, theres potentially a lot of complex interactions with context that can go wrong given that controls can do absolutely anything.. and then theres weird bugs like this..

                    HtmlGenericControl href = new HtmlGenericControl("a");
                    href.Attributes.Add("href", "http://www.google.com/">http://www.google.com");
                    href.Attributes.Add("title", "Word!");
                    href.InnerText = "Google.com";

I'm still interested in determining what causes the href to be removed from the control when cached as a HtmlAnchor.

We've ruled out an overall problem with the AttributeCollection since the Title attribute is cached properly.  Anyone else have an idea?

stevo_ said:

I think its because the HRef is stored within the attribute collection that is inherited from HtmlControl.

InnerText literally just adds a new LiteralControl inside the HRef controls and also adds the content to the viewstate.

Not entirely sure why its doing this, but if its a problem with the AttributeCollection, you can expect it to lose the Title attribute as well, since that is also stored in the base classes AttributeCollection.