I've created a bunch of custom controls based on the CompositeControl and I get the control surrounded with a <span> tag.  How in the world do I avoid getting this <span> tag? 

Essentially most of the custom controls I have currently override CreateChildControls() and display a custom table row or column element with additional controls configured within the row/column.  Is there someway to force the CompositeControl to output the ID to the <TR> or <TD> tag rather than the <SPAN> tag?

Here's a quick psuedo-code of the CreateChildControl:

{
if DisplayRow
   add <TR> via Literal
add <TD> via Literal
add Label
add </TD> via Literal
add <TD> via Literal
add TextBox (or other data control)
add </TD>
if DisplayRow
   add </TR> via Literal
}

Thanks!

For anyone that may be looking for the same thing the answer is to override the following TagKey property (it only has a getter) and return the appropriate HtmlTextWriterTag

In generic webcontrol-based controls, you can specify the desired html tag in the contructor (Panel do it this way) or you can override RenderBeginTag method and use whatever tag you want (maybe not the recommended way, though).

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Borek Bernard, http://borber.com