<%@ Page Language="C#" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head id="Head1" runat="server"> <style type="text/css"> div { padding:10px; } .labelStyle { color:red; background-color:yellow; border:Solid 2px Red; } </style> <title>Format Label</title> </head> <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <div> <asp:Label id="lblFirst" Text="First Label" ForeColor="Red" BackColor="Yellow" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2" BorderColor="red" Runat="server" /> <br /> <asp:Label id="lblSecond" Text="Second Label" CssClass="labelStyle" Runat="server" /> </div> </form> </body> </html>