Placeholder

grstad · May 21st, 2008, 02:36 PM

Hei!
How do I move the placeholders into the right position on the masterpage?
Mvh
grstad

planoie · May 21st, 2008, 03:05 PM

What do you mean by "move them"? Usually, you just put them where you want them in the master layout dictated by the master page.

-Peter
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grstad · May 21st, 2008, 03:23 PM

...if the masterpage holds multiple content placeholders (see page 41 in Beginning ASP.NET C#)then how can I position the "BottomContent" at the bottom of the contentpage? By ordinary HTML? But what is then the purpose of multiple placeholders..? And how do I increase and decrease the size of the contentplaceholders?

Mvh
grstad

planoie · May 21st, 2008, 10:21 PM

Multiple placeholders are to provide support for being able to provide content for different areas of your master layout. Typically you would have, at a minimum, a main content area. But you might also want to have an area in a left nav column that you could add something to on a page by page basis. Or perhaps there is a content placeholder in the <head> tag (which the master page template creates). This would allow you to create scripts or other page elements that should live in the page head and they will be included in the appropriate place when the content page and master layout are merged.

You can position the content placeholders by whatever means you see fit. You could use traditional tabular layout or use fixed position divs around the content placeholders. That's just a question of how you prefer to do that with regular HTML.

-Peter
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grstad · May 22nd, 2008, 02:54 PM

Hei!

Thank you for the answers. I'll finish with a last question for now;
are there any limitations regarding how many contentplaceholders to go on one master-page? What if I have 50 different pages depending on that master-page?

Mvh
grstad

grstad · May 22nd, 2008, 03:06 PM

...sorry, I was asking before thinking it through; I'll have to use that same contentplaceholder, adressing it from eatch of the 50 different pages... recycling it! But never the less, it may be relevant to have several contentplaceholders. But that is not depending on the numbers of content-pages, is it..?

Internet has become favorable with that tool...thank you Tim Berners-Lee!

planoie · May 23rd, 2008, 09:03 AM

The number of pages that can use a master page is not limited.

Presumably the number of content place holders isn't limited either, but have lots and lots probably isn't very practical. If you found yourself with more than 3 of 4 then you might not actually want to use content placeholders because you may be trying to provide far too much flexibility in the template. Instead you could probably just use a standard page and recycle user controls for common content/controls.

-Peter
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