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Asked: 2026-05-11T07:04:43+00:00

I’m having the weirdest problem. I have two PlaceHolders in a Master Page; one

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I’m having the weirdest problem.

I have two PlaceHolders in a Master Page; one contains controls for users who are logged-out, and the other for users who are logged-in.

They are:

plhLoggedOut

plhLoggedIn

During my Page_Load (of the Master Page), I set their visibility like so:

        //LOGGED-IN?         plhLoggedOut.Visible = (app.UserID == 0);         plhLoggedIn.Visible = (app.UserID != 0);

However, the contents of BOTH PlaceHolders are still being rendered.

I’m even writing their visibility to a status message, and that status message confirms that only one is visible at any given time. e.g.,

plhLoggedOut.Visible == True; plhLoggedIn.Visible == False

Any ideas how this could happen (and how to fix it)?

Thanks very much,

Michael

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  1. I just removed the old PlaceHolders and created two new ones with different IDs. Then it started working.

    I vaguely remember having weird behaviors like that before, where for some reason the code-behind and the markup are disconnected. That might happen because I don’t use the visual designer, and write the .NET tags and the designer.cs file by hand.

    FYI, slolife, I just tested it and visibility doesn’t get passed down like that from parent controls to child controls. You can nest a hidden control that remains hidden even if you set its container’s visibility to true.

    Thanks, everyone,

    Michael

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