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Element 'title' occurs too few times, XHTML validation warning in ASP.NET.MVC master page.

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Do this instead:

<head>
    <title><asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="title" runat="server">Default Page Title Here</asp:ContentPlaceHolder></title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="head" runat="server"></asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</head>

Or as an alternate, set the title programattically from each page.

What's happening in your case is that when a new view is created, it creates empty content items which override the default content in the placeholders. If you remove the empty content blocks from the view, the default placeholder content will be used, but then you can't set the contents from the view. Using the code above you can override a default title from each view and include scripts, etc. in the head independently of each other.

John Sheehan 2009-02-27 17:15:54

I am surprised that is not the default syntax they generate when you create a new ASP.NET-MVC project. Thanks for the quick response!

Blegger 2009-02-27 17:57:01

They don't generate it like that by default because the Title can be set in the view Page directive or a plethora of other ways.

John Sheehan 2009-02-27 18:05:42

I've seen contentplaceholders for the head, but never one specifically for the title tag. Although it sounds stupid as all get out, its beautiful, lol. +1

TheTXI 2009-03-02 16:08:24

And here I was agonizing over where that silly extra blank title element in my head came from ...

qstarin 2010-09-29 20:55:27

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