Master Pages: Allowing Each Content Page to Have Different Title and Keywords

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Hi,

I am certain this question must have been asked before, but I cannot find out how to overcome what appears to be an obvious problem when using master pages in ASP.NET 4.

Since the master page contains the <head/> section of the document, it also contains the title and meta data (e.g. 'description', 'keywords'). Since this data really does need to be specific to each page, how do you set is on a per-page basis instead of inheriting the values in the master page file?

The MSDN information on this does not seem to mention this, but I am sure I read somewhere that this was now possible in ASP.NET 4.

Advice or pointers to relevant information would be very much appreciated.

Best wishes, Patrick

:~

Posted 17-Nov-10 4:34am

Patrick Skelton

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Keith Barrow · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-17T04:45:00

In the master page you can do this:

XML

<head runat="server">
    <title><asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="TitleContent" runat="server" /></title>
</head>

Then in the aspx:

XML

<asp:Content ID="TitleContent" ContentPlaceHolderID="TitleContent" runat="server">
    <asp:Literal ID="TitleLiteral" runat="server" Text="Whatever" />
</asp:Content>

I believe the meta tags can be done in a similar fashion, but you'll need to put the whole tag in the text of the literal.