>Instead of an asp:Button control you could use a regular input button, like this:
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><input id="Button1" type="button" value="button" />
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If I do that, I loose all the ability to control that button from the code behind.

>If, on the other hand, you want to have programatic control over this button server-side you can simply add the runat="server" attribute on the element and it will become available in your code-behind:

The syntax you showed is an option to have it visible in the code behind. This is great.

However, since last night, I finally figured out the proper way of posting these pages and have resolved the issue.