UserControl's RenderControl is asking for a form tag in (C# .NET)

Alternatively you could disable the ServerForm/Event-validation on the page that is rendering the control to a string.

The following example illustrates how to do this.

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string rawHtml = RenderUserControlToString();
    }

    private string RenderUserControlToString()
    {
        UserControl myControl = (UserControl)LoadControl("WebUserControl1.ascx");

        using (TextWriter myTextWriter = new StringWriter())
        using (HtmlTextWriter myWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(myTextWriter))
        {
            myControl.RenderControl(myWriter);

            return myTextWriter.ToString();
        }
    }

    public override void VerifyRenderingInServerForm(Control control)
    { /* Do nothing */ }

    public override bool EnableEventValidation
    {
        get { return false; }
        set { /* Do nothing */}
    }
}