Accessing an HTML element from a child control

[darrel]

I have a page structured as such:

page.aspx
<title>
control1.ascx
control2.ascx

The page, may or may not have a title tag. If it doesn't, control1 writes it
out.

I'd like to be able to manipulate the text in the TITLE tag from control2.
Is that possible? If so, what would be the logic behind it? I asked a
similiar question before, and it was suggested that I set the TITLE tag to
"runat=server" and then declare it in my codebehind. The catch is that
control2 won't know if the title is in the parent page or control1, so I'm
not sure how to address it.

-Darrel

 

[Martin Dechev]

Hi,

A very dirty solution:

Add a literal in the page (<asp:literal id="literalSetTitle"
runat="server"/>). Then in the controls:

[C#]
Literal literalSetTitle = Page.FindControl("literalSetTitle") as Literal;
if(literalSetTitle != null)
literalSetTitle.Text = string.Format(
@"<script>document.title='{0}';</script>",
"New Title")

And replace "New Title" with the one you need. Note that the last control to
execute this code will set the title.

Hope this helps
Martin