2008: Getting to title on Master Page

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bh

I'm getting strange behavior, while trying to edit page titles from content
pages.

On the master page, I have a label control, named lblTitle, between the
<title></title> tags

On the content page, I have a page-level variable declared: Dim lblTitle as
Label

On Load, I have:
lblTitle = CType(Master.FindControl("lblTitle"), Label)
lblTitle.Text = "My page title"

When I run application, the title bar of the content page shows:
<span id="ctl00_lblTitle">My page title</span>

How can I have customized titles for each page, without the <span> tags
showing? I'm not even sure where those span tags are generated. Thanks in
advance.

bh
 
None of that is necessary.
We can name or change a Page title on demand in the Page_Load event handler
of each content page...

Page.Title = "Page Title"
 
bh said:
I'm getting strange behavior, while trying to edit page titles from content
pages.

On the master page, I have a label control, named lblTitle, between the
<title></title> tags

On the content page, I have a page-level variable declared: Dim lblTitle as
Label

On Load, I have:
lblTitle = CType(Master.FindControl("lblTitle"), Label)
lblTitle.Text = "My page title"

When I run application, the title bar of the content page shows:
<span id="ctl00_lblTitle">My page title</span>

How can I have customized titles for each page, without the <span> tags
showing? I'm not even sure where those span tags are generated. Thanks in
advance.

bh
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The span tags comes trom the Label control, that is how it's rendered.
If you want literal text instead of a label, use a Literal control
instead of a Label control.

If you have runat="server" in the head tag, you can access the title
using the Page.Title property, just as Hillbilly showed.
 
I forgot to mention adding runat but our good friend the compiler would
remind him anyway ;-)
 
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