Hi Chris,

You want to access the master page's a variable on the content page, right?

You can store the variable's value in a HiddenField control which represents a hidden field used to store a non-displayed value. You can get the variable's value in the content page by the findcontrol method.

for example:

HiddenField hf = (HiddenField)this.Page.Master.FindControl("ctl00$HiddenField1");
        Response.Write(hf.Value);

I have a work around for your problem.

1)  You can assign the value of variable to a hidden field in master page. And in the load event of content page you can read that value from the field.

 It would go like this:::

hidden_Label =var

on contect page :: hidden_label2

hidden_control2=ctype(me.master.findcontrol("hidden_control"),label)

if i could get some easy code i will reply.