Hi Tahir!

For web forms, property controls always have a wrapping element while MVC only has this element when in the on page edit view. You could probably do the same for for this specific property type though I would consider it a bit advanced. You can register a custom renderer by using the PropertyControlClassFactory as explained by Ted Nybergs blog post: http://tedgustaf.com/blog/2010/8/map-episerver-properties-to-custom-property-controls/

Then, you need to override the CreateDefaultControls and CreateOnPageEditControls methods, implement your own version of the CreateContentAreaControls and CreateMainContainer methods (by using reflection), then finally make sure that the control returned from the CreateMainContainer method is a custom class where you can toggle rendering of start and end tags.

As said, the above is to be considered a bit advanced but if you are skilled in web control development and reflection, it should surely be possible. Please note that by having different markup in the main and editorial views, things might look a bit different.

Thanks Linus. Works perfectly. Overridden the PropertyContentArea and managed to remove the outer container div for ContentArea. However still strugling to remove the additional divs rendered by the blocks within the content area. Any suggestions?

I looked into the code and the controls for each item is created by the class ContentControlResolver. I think that it would be real hard changing this but if you want to give it a try, you probably have to replace the instance of the ContentControlResolver that is used in the property control and in that class in turn replace the creation of ContentRenderers with your own class. I would really try to avoid this if possible though...

Is there a reason to get rid of enclosing <div> element for block?

I wrote an article with a fully working code sample if that helps: http://jondjones.com/episerver-7-extra-divs-in-content-area-how-to-remove-them/

Nice writing :) I implemented something similar for Bootstrap Aware renderer - just with an opt-in feature to enable or disable <div> rendering if content of the block turns out to be empty.

https://github.com/valdisiljuconoks/EPiBootstrapArea

@Jon. Thanks, I have looked at that but this implementation is for MVC. I need something in Webforms.

@Valdis. Ofcourse there is a  reason :) Basically, we are upgrading a EPiserver 6 R2 Composer based website to EPiServer 7. To ensure all the data is migrated correctly and there is no 404 etc, one of the requiremente is, to write a utility that crawl through both the websites (6 and 7) and compare the rendered html to see nothing is missed in the migration process. Now with the additional divs, comparison can't be made.

@Linus. Thank Linus for your help. I have used your suggested method to add additional attributes to additional divs and then in my utility application, removed the divs using the html agility pack. Kindof hack but it worked in our case. Thanks once again.