How to change page's title dynamically

[Guogang]

Hi, is there a way to change the page's title in code behind (C#)?

I want to change this part:
<HEAD>
<TITLE> Can be changed dynamically. </TITLE>
</HEAD>

Thanks,
Guogang

 

[Laidbak]

Hi, is there a way to change the page's title in code behind (C#)?

Make the text of the title a label.
In your code behind set the label's text.

 

[Guogang]

Well, it works. Never thought I can do this.

Only thing I want to change is that I need to use "Literal" instead of "Label", otherwise, the title will have <span> around it.

Hi, is there a way to change the page's title in code behind (C#)?

Make the text of the title a label.
In your code behind set the label's text.

 

[Showjumper]

Give your title tag an id and runat attribute. then declare it in code behind And then you can retrive data from a dataset and set the inner text property equal to the text or whatever.

<title id="PageTitle" runat="server"></title>

Protected WithEvents PageTitle As HtmlGenericControl

PageTitle.InnerText = ds.Tables(0).Rows(0).Item("ArticleTitle").ToString

 

[gerry (archive)]

this works , but VS has the annoying habit of removing the runat="server" from <TITLE> tags when it feels the urge.

 

[Michael Earls]

Gerry,

The problem with what you are trying to do is that ASP.NET treats everything from the first character of the output (usually "<!DOCTYP..." for VS.NET created WebForms) to the first control as a LiteralControl. this means that the title is within this LiteralControl as literal text to be spit out (without further processing) at Render-time. This is very efficient, but puts the title out of reach for the base implementation of System.Web.UI.Page.

The only sure-fire way to completely control this is by creating a class that derives from System.Web.UI.Page and then adding private variable and an accessor for a property named "Title".

Then, override the Render method. In that method, you'll need to find the <title> control in the text of that first literal control and change what's between <title> adn </title> to your internal title variable.

You can view the code (and description) here:

http://www.cerkit.com/cerkitBlog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=54fe3c55-91ca-4318-856d-c1e62963db9b

 

[gerry (archive)]

Thanks for the info michael, I will incorporate this in my base page.

However, imho, this is still a bug in VS in that it is 'randomly' removing things from my html. The runat="server" method works just fine until VS removes it - I haven't pinned down exactly when it is removed.

 

[Ujjwal Singh Roy]

Very Simple

Copy And Paste it to page_load


var page = (Page)HttpContext.Current.Handler;
page.Title = "someTitle";

:lol: