Master Pages, Themes and Navigation Controls

Re: How to acces control from masterpage

joteke — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:11:28 GMT

You find an example in following post:
http://forums.asp.net/thread/1168780.aspx

And see also a good reference article: http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/net_asp/webforms/article.php/c11303/

Re: How to acces control from masterpage

Paul44 — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:33:52 GMT

Can you expand on the property in the master page I have a master page that contains:

<div id="mainmenu">
   <ul>
       <li><a href="<%=Page.ResolveUrl("~/default.aspx")%>" id="tab_Home" class="selected">Home</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://forums.asp.net/AddPost.aspx?PostID=1388327#" id="tab_Services">Services</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://forums.asp.net/AddPost.aspx?PostID=1388327#" id="tab_Contact">Contact</a></li>
       <li><a href="<%=Page.ResolveUrl("~/About.aspx")%>" id="tab_About">About</a></li>
       <li><a href="<%=Page.ResolveUrl("~/AboutSelected.aspx")%>" id="tab_AboutSelected" class="selected">AboutSelected</a></li>
          <%if(Page.User.IsInRole("Administrator")){ %>
        <li><a href="<%=Page.ResolveUrl("~/admin") %>" id="tab_Admin">Admin</a></li>
              <%} %>
   </ul>
</div>

The tab_Home is set for class="selected" (the default page) and when another tab is clicked I would like to know how to set the Master Page "class" for the tab_Home to not-selected??? and then set the appropriate tab to "selected"

Something like Master.mainmenu.tab_Home.selected="" and then

Master.mainmenu.tab_About.selected="selected" in the Page_Load of the About page...

This will (I hope) move the Highlight from the tab_Home tab to the tab_About tab...

Can you please tell me how to do this in C#

Thanks,

Paul

Re: How to acces control from masterpage

vik20000in — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 04:14:45 GMT

You can alos create a property in the master page and acess it through the content page. More OOP.

Vikram

Vikram's Blog

Re: How to acces control from masterpage

joteke — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:58:45 GMT

You can locate the DropDownList by running Master.FindControl

Dim ddl As DropDownList = DirectCast(Master.FindControl("DropDownList1"), DropDownList)
ddl.SelectedIndex = 3

Postback events are always raised after Page_Load.

How to acces control from masterpage

FrankBeerens — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:33:54 GMT

Hello i have a dropdownlist on my masterpage.

But how can i select the index of that dropdownlist from my content ?

I thought to add the index to a session but de page load event is done before the index changed event ?