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Asked: 2026-05-22T02:07:45+00:00

What I’d like to do seems pretty simple. I’d like to specify the page

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What I’d like to do seems pretty simple. I’d like to specify the page title in my @Page directive on a view, like so:

<%@ Page Title="About This Site" ... %>

Then, I’d like to get that page title into the ViewData, so that it could be used in the master page, like:

<head>
    <title>The Awesome Site | <%=ViewData["Title"]%></title>

And also in the View itself like:

<h1><%=ViewData["Title"]%></h1>

I am already inheriting a custom controller for all of the page controller methods. So I’m hoping that there’s something I can do in the controller to transfer the Page.Title property into the ViewData (or maybe I’ll use the ViewBag). I just can’t seem to find any route to reference the Page from within the Controller.

Is this possible? Is there a different approach I might want to consider.

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  1. Editorial Team

    See “generic errors” post on this for a clean way to do this.

    Passing data to Master Page in ASP.NET MVC

    you should not be referencing anything from a “page” from a controller. The two are completely separate by design. You need to package your data and then send it to the view.
    Another way (more like what you are requesting) is that you use
    @{

    ViewBag.Title =”my view title”;
    }
    Then the master page uses that value wherever you want it.

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