What's the difference between a Panel and a Placeholder?

Functionality-wise, both server controls are generally the same. They both act as containers, separating other server controls, etc., into logical sections.


The PlaceHolder control doesn't have most of those capabilities. It's major function is to act as a container for other tags/server controls.

However, the Panel has a bit more overhead. A panel has most of the display/decoration/style capabilities of the other server controls (border style/width/color, BackColor, Font, CssClass, etc).