Master Pages, Themes and Navigation Controls

Re: Different head and meta tag content on each content page

tymberwyld — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:47:40 GMT

Umm, "Title" and "Description" are already Attributes on each Content page's "Page" tag

<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Master/Site.Master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Login.aspx.cs" Inherits="MySite.Login" Title="Untitled Page" Description="" %>

You'd just need to add Meta, Styles, and Links (JavaScript) as other properties if need be...

Re: Different head and meta tag content on each content page

chazcross — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:29:02 GMT

i went a different route.

In the head of the masterpage i added a id and runat tag

And for every page where i needed to modify this tag i used

HtmlMeta description = (HtmlMeta)Page.Header.FindControl("description");
 description.Content = "description here";

Re: Different head and meta tag content on each content page

LudovicoVan — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:16:02 GMT

ajw:

> I dont know whether its a good way of doing it but I added a content placeholder in the head tag of the master page which I then linked to in each of my content pages.

IMO, this is a great solution!

> It might not work very well for search engines though because the content doesnt sit in the head tags on the content pages because the head tags are located on the master page.

This problem actually does not exist and your pages are fine. Consider that master and content get merged before being sent back to the browser or crawler, so it just looks like a regular page and the client has not even way to ascertain it is coming from a page implementing a master...

Hope this clearifies. -LV

Re: Different head and meta tag content on each content page

ajw — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:19:41 GMT

I dont know whether its a good way of doing it but I added a content placeholder in the head tag of the master page which I then linked to in each of my content pages. It might not work very well for search engines though because the content doesnt sit in the head tags on the content pages because the head tags are located on the master page. Even though when the page is compiled and you go view source on the page when viewing it in the web browser it does show up in the head tags. However, if google doesnt compile the page before crawling it then this wont happen if you see what i mean.

Re: Different head and meta tag content on each content page

ewschone — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:37:07 GMT

ajw:
Hi, thanks for all the info. I am still having problems integrating this into my site. My set up is I have one master page and other content pages such as aboutus.aspx, contact.aspx, etc. Would it be possible for you to spell it out for me where the code goes exactly. Thanks for your patience>

I have been playing a bit with this and you can try something like this in the page load of contact.aspx page:

           Dim myMeta = New HtmlMeta
           myMeta.name = "description"
           myMeta.content = "This is our contact page"
           Page.Header.Controls.Add(myMeta)

Odd enough i didnt get any intellisense for myMeta .

Re: Different head and meta tag content on each content page

ajw — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:13:53 GMT

Hi, thanks for all the info. I am still having problems integrating this into my site. My set up is I have one master page and other content pages such as aboutus.aspx, contact.aspx, etc. Would it be possible for you to spell it out for me where the code goes exactly. Thanks for your patience>

Andrew

Re: Different head and meta tag content on each content page

lostlander — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:29:04 GMT

Here is an article you can follow:

In the section: Headers, Scripts, and Meta Tags, Too

ASP.Net 2.0 - Master Pages: Tips, Tricks, and Traps

It details the process of adding Headers and other things.

Hope it helps! ^_^

Re: Different head and meta tag content on each content page

aspnetprogrammer — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:31 GMT

I'm still new to master pages, but I know of two ways to control a master pages title or meta tags. One was mentioned in a previous post (adding a content placeholder to the head section of the master page). Here is another that someone showed to me:

The following code in the code behind file of the master page:

HtmlMeta theMetaTag = new HtmlMeta();
theMetaTag.Attributes.Add("name", "test");
theMetaTag.Attributes.Add("content", "this is a test");
Page.Header.Controls.Add(theMetaTag);

will generate this tag in the head section of the page:

<meta name="test" content="this is a test" />

In order to give more control (if that is necessary), create a public property in the master page that controls this meta tag. For instance, I have worked on pages where we have boolean properties to tell whether or not an optional meta tag is rendered, or string properties to tell what should go in the content attribute of a required meta tag.

So if you want the meta tag to be optional, add this property to the master page:

public property bool UseMetaTag
{
   get
   {
      object o = ViewState["usemetatag"];
      return o==null?string.empty:(string)o;
   }
   set
   {
      ViewState["usemetatag"] = value;
   }
}

(I am doing this from memory so I hope I got that right.)

Then you just set it in the content page's code behind:

Master.UseMetaTag = true;

and make the code above conditional:

if (this.UseMetaTag)
{
   HtmlMeta theMetaTag = new HtmlMeta();
   ...
}

As far as setting the title dynamically, I created this property in a master page and set it in the content page:

    public String PageTitle
    {
        get
        {
            return Page.Header.Title;
        }
        set
        {
            Page.Header.Title = value;
        }
    }

I hope this is at least somewhat helpful:)

I would, of course, be interested if someone knows of a better or different way.

Re: Different head and meta tag content on each content page

ajw — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:03:30 GMT

I am really more interested in having a different title and meta keywords and description on each page or for each page rather than styles.

Cheers

Andrew

Re: Different head and meta tag content on each content page

hoopslife — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:46:53 GMT

http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/5706.aspx

Different head and meta tag content on each content page

ajw — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:31:08 GMT

Hi,

I am using master pages. I want to put different head and meta (description, keywords) on each content page. How can this be done to make my site better designed for search engines.

Thanks

Andrew Welch

Abtec Network Systems