How to set Page's Title from a web content page in ASP.NET 3.5
I've read through quite a bit of posts/articles on how to do this and I still am not getting the page title set from the content page. My pages render OK except I can't get the title set from the content page (all the page's have Title set as per the master page). Here's the codebehind for my master page:
Partial Class zSEO
Inherits System.Web.UI.MasterPage
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Page.Header.Title = "Dynamically set in Master page"
End Sub
End Class
Here is the rest of the master page:
<%@ Master Language="VB"
EnableTheming="true"
Inherits="zSEO"
CodeFile="zSEO.master.vb" %>
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
<asp:contentplaceholder id="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
</asp:contentplaceholder>
</div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Yet, it is in the web content page that I want to establish the value of the for the page and I have placed this in my testing content page:
Public Partial Class zShowAd
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Page.Header.Title = "Dynamically set TITLE value in the content(child) page"
End Sub
End Class
Strangely, I cannot get the debugger to stop on the line above in the content page - only on the corresponding line in the master page. Clearly, I am confused on this.
I've read there are other ways to do this but this seemed to be possible from what I read at Scott Mitchell's tutorial at: Dynamically setting the Page Title in ASP.NET. Specifically, I tried to follow this from the article: "Furthermore, if you are using master pages, this code can work, as written, from either the master page or the ASP.NET page that uses the master page. In such a scenario, the region should be defined in the master page, but the ASP.NET page can still access it via Page.Header. "
Answer
So what needs to happen is this
MasterPage.Master
Protected Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Init
Me.Page.Title = "Dynamically set in Master page"
End Sub
Default.aspx
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Me.Page.Title = "Dynamically set in ASPX page"
End Sub
This way your master page title is set BEFORE your content page title. If you do not set a title from the content page, the masterpage will be the default title. If you do set a title from the content page, then it will override it.