ASP.NET 1.1 - “<%=” and “%>” tags being rendered in address bar

Question

I inherited an ASP.NET 1.1 application that was written about 8 years ago, the app is obviously someone's first immersion in .NET as the code is a mixture of code-behind as well as server-side scattered throughout the markup.

The problem I'm having is that the form label has an action that looks like this:

<form name="myForm" id="myForm" method="post" action="?id=<%= fooId %>" runat="server">

When the save button is hovered over I see in the status bar:

?id=<%= fooId %>

As opposed to:

?id=123

If the user clicks the save button, the address bar shows:

http://servername/virtdir/pagename.aspx?id=<%= fooid %>

Which obviously causes the application to throw an exception. I've tried using:

action="?id=<% Response.Write(fooId) %>" 

But still get the same problem. The problem is localized to this page, what else can I try?

Thanks,

Answer 1

You can't put <%= into a runat=server tag - your telling it to break into server side code when it already is. Try setting the action programatically in the codebehind.