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Appending to default title in asp.net masterpage

Answer 1

+1 A:

If you are using MVC and are passing the title in some object from the controller to the page I would use inline code to display this.

We use the MVC contrib functions to get typed data directly from the view data in the master page thus:

<head>
<title>My Page - <%= ViewData.Get<Model.Page>().Title %></title>
</head>

As a point of note we have removed all code behind files from every view we have to make the views more legible, we find this much better than having code behind for each view.

Richard 2009-03-23 19:39:35

That would take care of the problem, but I am trying to find a solution that could have the text "My Page" only on the master page. That way title changed it wouldn't need to be changed on each view. Thank you for responding though.

Aaron 2009-04-06 19:03:51

Answer 2

+7 A:

After looking further, Phil Haack actually posted an article which was a solution to my question. It can be found at Haacked.

In summary he said that everything that is rendered in the head is rendered as a control, and the fix for my question above is to put an asp literal control in the title to have it correctly generate the text.

<%@ Master ... %>
<html>
<head runat="server">
  <title>
    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="titleContent" runat="server" /> 
    <asp:LiteralControl runat="server" Text=" - MySite" />
  </title>
</head>
...

Aaron 2009-04-06 19:09:28

As mentioned by Alexander, this results in Unknown Server Tag exception.

Jonas Stawski 2009-11-04 17:11:47

This works for me.

cottsak 2010-05-22 05:25:47

Try using "Literal" instead of "LiteralControl"

rudib 2010-08-18 12:34:41

Answer 3

+5 A:

It seems we should use

<asp:Literal runat="server" Text=" - MySite" />

instead of

<asp:LiteralControl runat="server" Text=" - MySite" />

mentioned in the article, because otherwise we get "Unknown server tag" error.

Alexander Prokofyev 2009-04-21 13:08:40

Answer 4

+2 A:

Why?

<title>
    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="titleContent" runat="server" />
    <%= "- My Site" %>
</title>

Works just as well. Without the hassle?

boymc 2009-06-20 05:21:20

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