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Can Poyrazoğlu
Can Poyrazoğlu

Reputation: 34780

Setting Page title doesn't work

I've got a strange problem that setting the Title property of my ASP.NET page does not have any effect, in code level. It doesn't throw an exception either. My class is a derived class of Page class but I am not overriding anything about title.

In the code I have this line:

Title = "About";

While debugging, I'm at that line, I put my cursor over Title as regular, and it displays "" an empty string, which is expected, I step down that line, expecting (obviously) Title to have the value "About" but when I hover, I still get an empty string. Property setting doesn't work. And yes, it is empty in output page too. Well, am I missing something there?

Upvotes: 30

Views: 18297

Answers (10)

Justin Tolchin
Justin Tolchin

Reputation: 463

The top answers are both right. You can either remove Title from the <%@ Page directive or make sure it is not blank (Title=""). So, if you have Title="Foo", you can change it in code. If you remove Title="" from the Page directive, you can change it in code.

Upvotes: 0

it3xl
it3xl

Reputation: 2672

<%@ Page meta:resourcekey="PageResource1" culture="auto"

You see?
Always check existence of meta:resourcekey.
It turns our that you have a .resx resource file that contains a record 

PageResource1.Title

with an empty value.
If you forget about it, all you'll do is use the

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Title = "My tilte";

Upvotes: 0

Matthieu Charbonnier
Matthieu Charbonnier

Reputation: 2982

If you want to set the Title from C# code, make sure you don't set a title in the aspx page. (even a blank title will override the Title from the C# code)

This following code will override the Title set in C# code by an empty string:

<%@ Page Language="C#" Title="" ... %>

You have to remove the Title property to be able to set it in C# code:

<%@ Page Language="C#" ... %>

Upvotes: 52

mirko cro 1234
mirko cro 1234

Reputation: 72

this work only in PreRender

protected void Page_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Page.Title = "Some title";

    }

Upvotes: 1

toddb
toddb

Reputation: 551

I was switching over to a new Master Page for my pages and my TITLES stopped working.

My old, working Master Page had this

<head runat="server">

My new, failing Master Page had this

<head>

So it was as simple as making sure the tag had runat="server" in it.

Upvotes: 7

tsyselsky
tsyselsky

Reputation: 121

<%@ Master ..
<head runat="server">
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title><%: Page.Title %></title>

..

<%@ Page Title="ABOUT" ..

Upvotes: 0

leqid
leqid

Reputation: 931

I had a similar issue (setting the Me.Title property in code-behind did not change the actual title of the rendered page).

Everything started to work as expected after I completely removed the Title attribute from the <%@ Page %> directive.

I have this in the MasterPage <head>:

<title><%= Page.Title %></title>

(This bit does not seem strictly necessary, as ASP.NET will add a <title> element to the <head> anyway... but without it, the Visual Studio HTML validator complains that "Element 'title' appears too few times" so I leave it there.)

  • Visual Studio 2010 Pro
  • .NET 4.0
  • IIS 7.0

Upvotes: 1

Alan
Alan

Reputation: 1

Try setting the title after the page DataBind:

public override void DataBind()
{
    base.DataBind(true);
    Title = "Ballout";
}

Upvotes: -3

Steven V
Steven V

Reputation: 16585

I had a similar issue with with the Title property. Mine problem came back to the <%@ Page %> directive missing the Title property. Make sure you've added the Title property to the Page directive on the ASPX file like:

<%@ Page Language="C#" Title="Default Title" %>

Upvotes: 11

Igor Turman
Igor Turman

Reputation: 2205

How about this (kind of odd but still :)):

Step 1: Add ContentPlaceHolder to the master page's title tag

...
<title>
    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="TitleContentPlaceHolder" runat="server"></asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</title>
...

Step 2: Add the following to the content page

...
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="TitleContentPlaceHolder" runat="server" ID="TitleContent">
    <asp:Literal runat="server" ID="TitleLabel"></asp:Literal>
</asp:Content>
...

Step 3: Try setting the title (e.g. on page load)

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        ...
        TitleLabel.Text = "Some title";
        ...
    }

Upvotes: 4

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