Setting the page title dynamically

[wallaceoc80]

I want to set the title of my page dynamically in ASP.NET.

I do this by giving the title tag an ID and including runat="server" as follows:

<title id="PageTitle" runat="server"></title>

Then in my code behind file I do this:

string strTitle = cmdTitle.ExecuteScalar().ToString();
PageTitle.InnerText = strTitle;

This works fine except that every so often for no apparent reason when I build my solution it removes the runat="server" attribute from the title tag and I get an error.

Anybody know why this happens?

Thanks for your help,

Wallace

 

[DaZZleD]

it's because the VS.NET environment does not recognise runat as a valid attribute for the tag title. this happens when switching from source page view to html designer view.

you can get rid of this behavior by setting your VS.NET IDE not to validate the html source.

also you could use a server side variable for your title and modify this variable from code behind so you won't have to change the defautl behavior of vs.net.

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