ASP.NET Master Page & Dynamic Page Title

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Chris Walls - 20 Jul 2007 14:25 GMT

We have a web application that is using a master page. This application is
being localized for multiple languages so for that, and other reasons, we
would like set the page title in my code behind. We've tried using the
following syntax. It doesn't raise an exception, but the title is not being
updated to the desired text.

this.Master.Page.Title = "My Page Title";

How can we programtically set the page title from a content page? Any help
would be appreciated.

- Chris

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Mark Rae [MVP] - 20 Jul 2007 14:31 GMT

> this.Master.Page.Title = "My Page Title";

Header.Title = ".........";

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David Wier - 20 Jul 2007 14:56 GMT

I'm curious - normally the master page doesn't set the title, since each
content page has it's own, that you can set either in the property window,
or by code-behind:
me.title="whatever"
Are you setting the page title for every content page, in the master page?

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>> this.Master.Page.Title = "My Page Title";
>
> Header.Title = ".........";

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Mark Rae [MVP] - 20 Jul 2007 15:05 GMT

> I'm curious - normally the master page doesn't set the title, since each
> content page has its own, that you can set either in the property window,
> or by code-behind:
> me.title="whatever"

That's right.

> Are you setting the page title for every content page, in the master page?

I'm not - the OP may be, though...

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Chris Walls - 24 Jul 2007 21:24 GMT

Didn't work. No exception thrown but the HTML title tag does not contain
the value I'm setting Header.Title to.

To answer other questions, I'm not setting the title from the master page,
I'm trying to set it programatically from the content page, though
unsuccessfully.

>> this.Master.Page.Title = "My Page Title";
>
> Header.Title = ".........";

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Mark Rae [MVP] - 24 Jul 2007 21:36 GMT

> Didn't work. No exception thrown but the HTML title tag does not contain
> the value I'm setting Header.Title to.

Where are you using the Header.Title = "...."; code? Can you put a
breakpoint on that line and inspect the value of Header.Title before and
after it runs...?

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Chris Walls - 25 Jul 2007 18:38 GMT

Got it now. We had a default title set in the master page's HTML. Once it
was removed, the code worked. It was thought this would be overwritten by
the content page's page_load method.

Thanks for the help.

>> Didn't work. No exception thrown but the HTML title tag does not contain
>> the value I'm setting Header.Title to.
>
> Where are you using the Header.Title = "...."; code? Can you put a
> breakpoint on that line and inspect the value of Header.Title before and
> after it runs...?

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Walter Wang [MSFT] - 25 Jul 2007 06:35 GMT

Hi Chris,

Please try following test pages:

MasterPage.master:

<%@ Master Language="C#" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<script runat="server">

</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Master Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:contentplaceholder id="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
</asp:contentplaceholder>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Default2.aspx:

<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPage.master" Title="Content
Page" %>

<script runat="server">

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.Header.Title = "Test";
}
</script>

<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1"
Runat="Server">
</asp:Content>

The Default2.aspx should correctly show "Test" as the web page title.

Regards,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) - 20 Jul 2007 17:28 GMT

The Master Page title is only used if there is nothing else to grab onto.
While it appears as a container, it is actually a control in the ASPX page.
You want to set the title of the Header, as Mark has stated.

For globalization, you can also use the title="" in the @Page directive and
set it to a resource string. If you are using custom resource providers, you
may have to do a bit of magic here in the Page_Init routine, but if you are
using standard resource files, it is the same as any other resource tag
pulling from the file rather than meta.

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> We have a web application that is using a master page. This application
> is being localized for multiple languages so for that, and other reasons,
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>
> - Chris

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