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user1203996
user1203996

Reputation: 89

How to I get ASP.NET Page Name

Easy one here.

I have a control inside a control inside a masterpage. The page name looks something like this in HTML

ctl00$MasterPageBody$MainControl$ChildControl

Any idea how I can get the above from code behind?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 119

Answers (3)

SmartDev
SmartDev

Reputation: 2872

You should use a function similar to this:

public static Control FindControlRecursive(Control ctl, string id) {
    if (!ctl.HasControls())
        return null;
    Control res = null;
    foreach(Control c in ctl.Controls) {
        if (c.ID == id) {
            res = c;
            break;
        } else {
            res = FindControlRecursive(c, id);
            if (res != null)
                break;
        }
    }
    return res;
}

in this way:

Control ChildControl = FindControlRecursive(this.Page, "ChildControl");
string ID = ChildControl.ClientID;

Upvotes: 0

Matthew Haugen
Matthew Haugen

Reputation: 13286

If we're talking about a top-level control on the page, or at least one that isn't in any sort of repeating type, you can just use the ClientID property.

<asp:Label runat="server" ID="testLabel" />

<script>
    $('#<%= testLabel.ClientID %>').click(function() { ... });
</script>

If we're talking about something that isn't accessible directly like that, you'll have to do the same thing, but it'll have to be wrapped in a FindControl. The example of that isn't so clean, so I'll trust you can understand from my words. But basically, if you have a label that shows code-behind-given text on each row of a GridView, you'll have to call ((Label)e.Row.FindControl("testLabel")).ClientID. Still pretty straight-forward, but a bit more complicated than the first case.

Upvotes: 1

Mike Miller
Mike Miller

Reputation: 16575

It's the clientID property of the control.

Upvotes: 1

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