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ASP.NET runat=server removes carriage returns from head tag

Answer 1

+1 A:

You can create a ControlAdapter. Add a file Head.Browser to the App_Browsers directory with content:

<browsers>
  <browser refID="Default">
    <controlAdapters>
      <adapter controlType="System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlHead"
               adapterType="MyNamespace.MyHeadAdapter, MyAssembly" />
    </controlAdapters>
  </browser>
</browsers>

The adapter source:

    public class MyHeadAdapter: ControlAdapter
    {
        protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
        {
            // base.Render(writer);
            // do the fix here
        }
    }

PS: I've not tested this code, but have used almost the same to rewrite the form's action attriute with a custom class derived from HtmlTextWriter.

Mart 2010-07-03 21:20:53

Answer 2

A:

It's actually worse than just being a cosmetic problem because tags vital to good SEO (such as <title>) get messed up. So a properly formatted head tag gets rendered as:-

<head><title>

    My Page Title

</title></head>

Browsers still show the page title correctly but not all search engines parse the title tag correctly.

The first answer isn't a solution (for me at least). Anyone have one?

DVD 2010-08-23 11:04:17

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