I have a master page which contains one contentplaceholder. I want to use theme skin file to control the background color of the contentplaceholder, how can I do it in the skin file?

It skin file works fine for other web controls. But because the skin edit window doesn't provide intellicense feature, so I cannot figure it out.

Thanks,

Since you can't set the background color of the contentplaceholder control, do it like this:

<div class="contentplaceholder1">
   <asp:contentplaceholder ...>
   </asp:contentplaceholder>
</div>

Then you can just add a class to your style.css file in the theme directory:

.contentplaceholder1
{
   background-color: red;
}

The contentplaceholder control is just what it says, it just holds a spot for something else to go in, the control itself never actually renders anywhere.  Hope this helps.

Rick Bassham

Thanks for both of you.

I did it another way. I put the contentplaceholder on a panel. Beacause I can control the panel background in the skin file. So if the panel background changes, the background of the contentplaceholder will change.