2.0.0) Server Controls

Server controls are tags that are understood by the server.
This provides both functionality adn programmability through server side model eg:

<asp:control_name id="some_id" runat="server" />

All server control including web page itself , inherits from System.Web.UI.Control class.

 There are 2 primary types of server controls:
HTML and Web Controls.
HTML Control :  This provides server side processing that generally map back to HTML
Web Control:  These are ASP.NET controls that focus more on their object model and less on their HTML rendering.


Web server controls may render differently according to the browser .