Panel Control
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PlaceHolder Control
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| Panel Control does have its visual layout and used as the container for other controls. |
PlaceHolder control does not have any visual output and used as a place holder when we add controls at run time. It is only container without its visible output. |
| Panel control renders as an HTML <DIV> tag. The content on the Panel control will be rendered within a surrounding <DIV>. |
PlaceHolder Control does not render any tag. It is rendered as nothing as it is replaced by its child controls. |
| Panel Control is inherited from the WebControl Class. |
PlaceHolder Control is inherited from the Control Class. |
| When any new control is added to the Panel Control, it can’t adjust the width of it automatically. |
When any new control is added to the PlaceHolder control, it can automatically adjust the width of it. |
| Panel Control supports the styling attributes so we can set background color, font color,border width/color/style, css class, etc. |
PlaceHolder Control does not support styling attributes so we can’t set css class, or other properties like background color, forecolor, border width/color/style. |
| Panel Control consumes more memory in compare to PlaceHolder Control. |
PlaceHolder control contains less memory as it is light in size than Panel Control. |
| Panel Control has more properties than PlaceHolder Control. |
PlaceHolder Control has fewer properties than Panel Control. |
