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Asked: 2026-05-11T08:16:29+00:00

Scenario: I have a pretty standard master page for all my pages. It includes

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Scenario: I have a pretty standard master page for all my pages. It includes the usual login forms and other dynamic lists to be extracted on each page. Webdesigners can already modify the central content place holder of each page. But still, the design and layout for the master page is still in my project and any modification to the design must be made in Visual Studio and the project re-compiled and re-deployed.

What is the best way to provide near-full access to designing the master page through a CMS? Some of the problems I can identify is the inclusion of any dynamic lists or specific controls such as a login form.

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  1. Would it be possible for you to put placeholders in the Master Page in place of the areas that designers should be allowed to edit? Since Master Pages are only editable in Visual Studio, it may be your only feasible option at this point in time. One problem with this approach is that the content put in the placeholders is unlikely to be valid, since you would probably have tags left open in one placeholder and closed in another.

    <html> <head> <title></title> <asp:PlaceHolder ID='headerContent' runat='server'></asp:PlaceHolder> </head> <body>  <asp:PlaceHolder ID='beforeContent' runat='server'></asp:PlaceHolder>  <asp:PlaceHolder ID='centralContent' runat='server'></asp:PlaceHolder>  <asp:PlaceHolder ID='afterContent' runat='server'></asp:PlaceHolder>  </body> </html>

    I know it’s ugly, but it might give you the control you need (as long as you don’t mind the XHTML validator warning you all the time). What you put in the placeholders could be your user controls or literal content or whatever, but you’d have to load it dynamically.

    Thoughts?

    EDIT: This won’t work. The PlaceHolder is going to render <div> tags that would mess things up. Maybe you could extend PlaceHolder and override how it renders its HTML.

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