CODEWITHSUNDEEP
vb.net
DLS
DLS

Reputation: 5491

Is this proper in .NET?

I am beginner in .NET. One of my firsts task is to change the meta tags dynamically for dynamically generated pages.

So, I came up with this, but am not too sure on what is considered the "proper" way to do it in .NET. 

<head>
<title><%= title %></title>
<meta name="description" content="<%= MetaDescription %>" />
...
</head>

This function lives in my masterpage codebehind and I set a default title, etc on page init (not shown below)

Protected Title As String = ""

Public Sub ChangeTitle(ByVal title As String)
   Title = title
End Sub

I also called this function in any product detail pages to set the appropriate dynamic title.

Is that considered ok in NET? Is this not good or hackish or would you say "if it works, works?

I tried adding runat="server" to the head tag, to use Page.title but then once that got added in, this line <meta name="description" content="<%= MetaDescription %>" /> gets decoded to 

<meta name="description" content="&lt;%= MetaDescription %>" />

and my code above then doesn't work to change the meta description.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 359

Answers (4)

isacnour
isacnour

Reputation: 1

you can use this example:

page.title = "your title here"

page.metadescription = "your description here"

Upvotes: 0

David McEwing
David McEwing

Reputation: 3340

If the header is marked Runat="Server" then the Page.Title property of the page will do the change in title automatically for you.

The second one for the meta tag I do the same thing, because it works.

Upvotes: 4

Guffa
Guffa

Reputation: 700322

After adding runat="server" to the head tag so that you can use the Title property, you can use something like this to add meta tags to the head:

public static void AddMeta(string name, string content) {
   Page page = (Page)HttpContext.Current.Handler;
   HtmlMeta meta = new HtmlMeta();
   meta.Name = name;
   meta.Content = content;
   page.Header.Controls.Add(meta);
}

Upvotes: 2

John Rasch
John Rasch

Reputation: 63435

There is already a property for this: Page.Title

Upvotes: 2

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