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Page losing title after UpdatePanel asyncpostback

I have just noticed recently that my page title will reset to the standard "Untitled Page" after I perform an asyncpostback from inside my UpdatePanel in the main page. The title will not be lost during a postback from inside the master page (such as when I click on the search box button inside the master page).

I assumed that by using a different contentplaceholder specifically for setting the document title I was going to avoid issues like this, but apparently I was wrong. Is there something else I am missing other than having to explicitly set the title in the code-behind of the ASPX page (which I was hoping to avoid with the way it was setup below)?

Here is the basic gist of my page which is calling the Master Page (master page code below)

<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="title" Runat="Server">
    Page Title
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="head" Runat="Server">
    <script type="text/javascript">
        //random javascript validators
    </script>   
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="Content3" ContentPlaceHolderID="content" Runat="Server">
    <div class="title">
        Account Management
    </div>
    <asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server">
        <ContentTemplate>
            //Username + Password Set Form
        </ContentTemplate>       
    </asp:UpdatePanel>

</asp:Content>

This is the of the Master Page. The ASP.NET AJAX ScriptManager is placed first thing after the <form> tag in the body.

<head id="Head1" runat="server">
    <title>
        <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="title" runat="server">
        </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
    </title>
        //Stylesheet references

    <script type="text/javascript">
        //Random javascript functions
    </script>

    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="head" runat="server">
    </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</head>
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TheTXI Avatar asked Mar 09 '09 18:03

TheTXI


2 Answers

We ran into this exact issue on one of our sites.

The immediate fix was to reset the title in the master page codebehind page_load method.

Apparently when the ajax call occurs, it is rerunning the master page. This was causing our title to disappear.

For example:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
    this.Page.Title = "whatever title you have...";
}

A better fix is to drop the MS updatepanel crap and start using JSON / jQuery where you actually have some decent control over the calls.

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NotMe Avatar answered Nov 10 '22 06:11

NotMe


Are you opposed to using the Title property of the Content Page?

<%@ Page Title="Your Page Title" Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPages/...

You can also access this programmatically in the page load...

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TGnat Avatar answered Nov 10 '22 08:11

TGnat