Hello,

The Kentico Portal engine uses ASP.Net Web forms as its development model and this model requires to use just one form on the page. For more information, you can read the article below:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/6451/Go-Beyond-the-limitations-of-ASP-NET-Form

If you don't want to have this form in the HTML source code, you would need to follow different development model like MVC. For more information about the MVC model in Kentico please follow the link below:

http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/devguide/index.html?mvc_overview.htm

Best regards,
Jan Hermann

You can easily style and add custom form functionality in any asp.net page by adding code behind or a small amount of JS. As already mentioned the <form> tag is required by asp.net because the whole page is considered a "form" and posts back.

How does it make it difficult to troubleshoot pages? I'm guessing you're not a development shop and/or don't have an asp.net developer on staff.

You also mentioned there performance issues, what kind? Static html will always load the fastest, you have to consider this is a database driven, server/client side application and from my experience it runs very fast in comparison to other server/client database driven applications.

If there are "things" or other HTML that you want to remove, you'd have to rewrite the asp.net engine and the .net framework, which would be nearly impossible for a single or even a team of 10 people to do. Those items are in the page for a specific reason, unfortunately you may not know the reason or have a need for the reason but when it comes down to it, it's needed.

Best of luck!