Master Pages

micptpuser · January 5th, 2009, 09:03 AM

How can I insert code before the HTML element or </head> element, if the page already uses a master.page that doesn't have a contentplaceholder already there for this purpose?

The site has about 40 or so pages that use the master.page but I need to place code just before the HTML or </head> element on a couple of pages for conversion tracking. Any ideas?

gbianchi · January 5th, 2009, 11:47 AM

Hi there...

You can add code to the master page. Maybe you can add the thing you need only if the page that is rendered is the ones you need??

Also, this could be a better way, since when you need to add a page, you don't copy code, just add it to the master page list...

micptpuser · January 6th, 2009, 09:16 AM

Not entirely sure what you mean,would you have an example.

thanks.

gbianchi · January 6th, 2009, 11:28 AM

I did this once ago, I will try to look for it. In the mean time, Can you modify the master page?? or you don't have any access to it??

I did something like: In the load event of the master page, check the url for the pagename, and then show a picture or not showing it according to that name.

dparsons · January 6th, 2009, 11:53 AM

Hmmm. I would probably just add some form of literal to the master page that would get populated with XYZ code based upon the page the user has navigated to. This is pretty much identical to what Gonzalo is proposing.

So:
<asp:Literal Id="literal1" runat="server" />

csharp Code:

literal1.Text = <yourcode>;

hth
-Doug

micptpuser · January 7th, 2009, 04:30 AM

Cheers Guys, that's kinda the way I had thought about it but wasn't sure if there was a better way to do it..

micptpuser · January 8th, 2009, 04:50 AM

I'm getting an error in VWD, when I put the literal control where it is. This is no doubt an error caused within VWD itself as presumably the literal control can be placed anywhere.

<!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>Untitled Page</title>
<asp:Literal ID="Literal1" runat="server"></asp:Literal>
</head>
<body>