Question

How can I put meta tag to work only for one page. If I want to put it .aspx file, where is right place.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Since you haven’t said yet, I’m assuming you’re using the Razor engine (the “default” for new MVC3 projects). In that case, you just need to insert a new section into your layout view, and only render that section if you need to insert a meta tag.

For example, working from the stock New ASP.NET MVC 3 Project template, you would edit your Views\Shared\_Layout.cshtml file, and before the closing </head> tag, do something like this:

    @this.RenderSection("MetaContent", false)
</head>

Then, in any of your views that you needed to, add this:

@section MetaContent
{
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE8" />
}

If you’re still using the ASPX layout engine for some reason, you can accomplish the same thing using the <asp:ContentPlaceHolder> tags in your master page and <asp:Content> tags in your views.

EDIT:

Since you’re using the ASP.NET Forms layout engine still, here’s the same basic idea as above in aspx syntax:

In your master page, you add the tag:

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

And in your .aspx views, you add a new content section (you should already have at least two — a title and a body):

<asp:Content ID="Meta" ContentPlaceHolderID="MetaContent" runat="server">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE8" />
</asp:Content>