Page.Title vs Title tag in asp.net

Question

I am using asp.net. I have noticed that we can configure page title (static and dynamic both) in two ways:

1. We have a Title attribute in the page directive:

     <%@ Page Language="C#" Inherits="_Default"  Title="My Title" ......%> 

2. We also have <title>tag in the page:

   <title runat="server" id="MyTitle"> My Title</title> 

Both can be accessed in code-behind file:

    MyTitle.Text = "Title from Code behind";     Page.Title = "Page Title from CS"; 

And i have found the page directive overrides the html title. So Which one should we use and why ?

Answer 1

The biggest difference is that with MyTitle.Text you have to decorate Title element with an id AND runat attributes, and remember it's name so you can reference it. Also accessing this value isn't that easy from child pages when you're using Masterpage for instance..

On the other hand, Page.Title is common to every Page, so it's more universal in my opinion. Every new developer you'll work with won't have to learn anything new, just use the Page.Title format..

So my vote would go to the "traditional" Page.Title

Whichever you like to use, stick with it, so you won't mix various ways of setting the title. That way you won't have to worry about which event happens first or about your colleague overwriting your values.