Question

I am using ASP.NET MVC 2 & 3 with aspx View not Razor View, my question is:

How to set the title in Site.Master page? I wish every pages which use Site.Master page can add a Master title follow the page title show like: “Index -MasterTitle” ; “About -MasterTitle”.

I’ve try in Site.Master page and it’s doesn’t work:

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

so I try to use asp:Literal server control:

<title><asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="TitleContent" runat="server" />
    <asp:Literal  runat="server">-MasterTiltle</asp:Literal>
</title>

Or:

<title><asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="TitleContent" runat="server" />
    <asp:Literal  runat="server" Text="-MasterTiltle"></asp:Literal>
</title>

fine, it’s solve the problem, but later I want to load the value of MasterTitle from web.config, I’ve try:

<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="TitleContent" runat="server" />
    <asp:Literal runat="server">
        <%: System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SiteTile"] %>
    </asp:Literal>
</asp:Literal>

compiler toled me a server control can’t contain a child control, so I try the other:

<title>
    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="TitleContent" runat="server" />
        <asp:Literal ID="ltlTitleBack" runat="server" Text='<%: System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SiteTile"] %>' > 
    </asp:Literal>
</title>

it’s compiler ok but not the answer what I want cause it show: “pagetilte <%: System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings[“SiteTile”] %>“

and later I found a way can solve this problem here: CodeExpressionBuilder

but I think that is not a proper solution cause I should set too many things that not relate to ASP MVC. Is there any better solution can solve this problem?

Note:

1. I don’t want set the value of MasterTitle in every pages not Site.Master page, that’s a stupid way.
2. I don’t want set the value of MasterTitle in Controller or Action or Model, that’s not right.
3. I don’t want set the value of MasterTitle via ViewData.
4. I don’t want to use CodeExpressionBuilder.
5. I’m not use Razor View.

thanks for any help.

Edit: Actually I want something like web.config so I can change the value of MasterTitle when server is running. 🙂

Answer 1

I had similar issues and here is what I had to use:

<title>
    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="TitleContent" runat="server" /><%= "-MasterTitle" %>
</title>