<p>I want to use jQuery with asp.net webfoms.  Do I need to get a special toolkit so the .net controls spit out friendly Control ID's?</p>

<p>Reason being, I don't want to write javascript referencing my html ID's like control_123_asdfcontrol_234.</p>

<p>Has this been addressed in version 3.5?  (I remember reading you have to get some special dll that makes ID's friendly).</p>

You can use
```
myControlId = "<%= myControl.ClientID %>";
```
to output the (non-friendly) id used to reference it in Javascript.