Problems with MasterPages

gobotsoup · March 6th, 2007, 06:01 PM

Hello I have been trying for the past few hours to use master pages, it seems straightforward, but I keep getting compilation errors.
Here is the code on my Content page

<% @ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="MasterPage.master" Title="Content Page 1" %>
<!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 = "The Title"></title></head>
<body>
<asp:Content id="Content1" contentplaceholder="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="Server">
Main content.
</asp:Content>

<asp:content id="Content2" contentplaceholder="ContentPlaceHolder2" runat="Server" >
Footer content.
</asp:content>
</body>
</html>

My first error says:
Error 1 Element 'Content' is not a known element. This can occur if there is a compilation error in the Web site. C:\Documents and Settings\bbgban\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\WebSites\WeeklyReports\Default.aspx 7 6 C:\...\WeeklyReports

gbianchi · March 7th, 2007, 09:50 AM

hi there...

replace the page directive with this and try again:

Code:

<% @ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPage.master" Title="Content Page 1" %>

the path to the maste page have something missing.. if the master page is inside a folder add it to the directive.

HTH

Gonzalo

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gobotsoup · March 7th, 2007, 11:48 AM

ahh thanks a lot that did the trick!