Change the text value in a control in a Master page

Question

Hello I have a header user control (.ascx) in a Master Page that I want to change the text of by the individual page. I haven't seemed to be able to reference it directly to change the text. If I set the control with a global property how to I reference it from the page since they are in 2 different sections of the Master page? Thanks.

Manikandan Murugesan · Answer

Provide a public method in your MasterPage that sets the title for example: public void setTitle( string title) { this .LblTitle.Text = title; } Then you can call it from your UserControl( YourMasterPage is the actual type of the MasterPage): ((YourMasterPage) this .Page.Master).setTitle( new Title );

Andrew · Answer

Thanks Manikanadan! I did manage to get it after finding some information doing basically what you described. I made the header control contain a public string property and on page load it populates the text with the variable. public string Page_Header_Text { get ; set ; } protected void Page_Load( object sender EventArgs e) { hlHeader.Text = Page_Header_Text; } Then on the Master page I made a public string for the page to edit and on Page_Load I set the header control's public variable with whatever the Master Page's variable is set to public string Page_Header_Display = Default Header Text ; protected void Page_Load( object sender EventArgs e) { page_header.Page_Header_Text = Page_Header_Display; } And then the key which is what I also see you have in your response is being able to call the master page's variable which includes adding this to the .aspx page. and then in the .aspx.cs page set the variable Master.Page_Header_Display = Text for Current Page ; But I think I will try what you have down if it skips me needing to add the piece at the top of the .aspx page and just put it in the .cs file.