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Asked: 2026-06-17T12:03:25+00:00

I’m starting to learn ASP.NET and it’s the little things that are really annoying

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I’m starting to learn ASP.NET and it’s the little things that are really annoying with Visual Studio Web Dev Express. I keep getting the error “Content Not Supposed To Be Outside ‘Script’ or ‘asp:Content’ Regions” – so I put content inside an asp:content container and it doesn’t disappear. I also get the same sort of error with declaring the DocType. Any suggestions to fix this. Also on an off-note: is there any better IDE’s to code ASP.NET?

<%@ Page Title="Home Page" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.master" AutoEventWireup="true"
    CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title>Hello VS2010</title>
</head>
<body>
    <asp:content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
        <form id="form1" runat="server">
            <div>
                <asp:Literal ID="Literal1" runat="server">
                    Hello World
                </asp:Literal>
            </div>
        </form>
    </asp:content>
</body>
</html>

Master Page

<%@ Master Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Site.master.cs" Inherits="SiteMaster" %>

<!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" xml:lang="en">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
    <link href="~/Styles/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="HeadContent" runat="server">
    </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</head>
<body>
    <form runat="server">
    <div class="page">
        <div class="header">
            <div class="title">
                <h1>
                    My ASP.NET Application
                </h1>
            </div>
            <div class="loginDisplay">
                <asp:LoginView ID="HeadLoginView" runat="server" EnableViewState="false">
                    <AnonymousTemplate>
                        [ <a href="~/Account/Login.aspx" ID="HeadLoginStatus" runat="server">Log In</a> ]
                    </AnonymousTemplate>
                    <LoggedInTemplate>
                        Welcome <span class="bold"><asp:LoginName ID="HeadLoginName" runat="server" /></span>!
                        [ <asp:LoginStatus ID="HeadLoginStatus" runat="server" LogoutAction="Redirect" LogoutText="Log Out" LogoutPageUrl="~/"/> ]
                    </LoggedInTemplate>
                </asp:LoginView>
            </div>
            <div class="clear hideSkiplink">
                <asp:Menu ID="NavigationMenu" runat="server" CssClass="menu" EnableViewState="false" IncludeStyleBlock="false" Orientation="Horizontal">
                    <Items>
                        <asp:MenuItem NavigateUrl="~/Default.aspx" Text="Home"/>
                        <asp:MenuItem NavigateUrl="~/About.aspx" Text="About"/>
                    </Items>
                </asp:Menu>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="main">
            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="MainContent" runat="server"/>
        </div>
        <div class="clear">
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="footer">

    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Master pages are a kind of template applied to all of your pages. Here it seems you use one without knowing it 

    MasterPageFile="~/Site.master"

    In the masterPage you have all the content you want to be common to all your pages and a asp:content region where you can add content for each page.

    So here you can try to remove the masterPage reference or just Adding and removing things in the asp:content region.

    Here‘s the msdn link about MasterPages. I think it really necessary to understand masterPages to learn asp.net.

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