MasterPage Container Control Id's - c#

Greetings,
I created a aspx page that uses a master page. Inside I have a control, let's say txtName and I have a submit button, that when I press it it will submit the text in the txtName to another page.
The problem is that the Request.Form key does not have the txtName, instead it something like clt00$Container0&txtName.
Isn't there a way to easily find the key that I want to retrieve from there?

You can implement the behaviour via Cross Page Postback. Then you can access the value via PreviousPage.FindControl("txtName") or via a custom property (see section "Using Property to expose and Consume values of TextBox" in the linked article above)

Make sure they r with in the same form when, it
renders onthe client. If not u will not get on server
look view source n see where u master page control
is

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