Set Page Title in code behind

[Nevyn Twyll]

In my code behind page, I want to dynamically set the page title of my page
(the one that shows on IE's toolbar). How do I do that?


- Nevyn

 

[Daniel Fisher\(lennybacon\)]

ASP.NET 1.1

in webform:
....
<title ID="HtmlTitle" runat="server></title>
....

in codebehind:
....
protected GenericHtmlControl HtmlTitle;
....
void Page_Load(...){
this.HtmlTitle.Value = "blabla";
....

--Daniel Fisher(lennybacon)

 

[Nevyn Twyll]

I can't find GenericHtmlControl in the ASP.NET 1.1 docs or autocomplete.

Help?

 

[Nevyn Twyll]

Ah. Did you mean HtmlGenericControl?

Here's what I did that worked

System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl HtmlTitle;

HtmlTitle = (HtmlGenericControl) FindControl("htmltitle");

HtmlTitle.InnerText = "What I want it to say";

 

[Peter Rilling]

Just a word of caution with this though. Sometimes when you switch between
the designer and the HTML view, the <title> tag is reset such that the
@runat attribute is removed.

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

Maybe because it's called HtmlGenericControl
and not GenericHtmlControl.

See :

http://www.csharpfriends.com/quicks....Web.UI.HtmlControls&class=HtmlGenericControl

 

[Lars-Erik Aabech]

To get around the IDE rewriting of the <title runat="server".. stuff, I
usually put a literal control inside the title tag.
Like:
<title><asp:Literal runat="Server" id="litTitle"/></title>

If you insert this in HTML view, and swap to design view, you get the member
field automagically, and can set it's Text property in ie. Page_Load..

Lars-Erik