ContentPlaceHolder control behaviour

**Erich Eichinger** · 02-19-2006, 03:39 PM

Is there any reason, why the ContentPlaceHolder's base class changed from Control to WebControl?

I'm using the ContentPlaceHolder for setting the <head><title> in the master-page. But a WebControl renders a <span>-tag around it's content by default. Doesn't look good in the Browser's titlebar ;-)

I currently solved this by deriving my own MyContentPlaceHolder from ContentPlaceHolder and overriding the RenderBeginTag/RenderEndTag methods.

My question: Is this expected behaviour or will this Control behave in the upcoming release as it has done in the 1.1 Preview 2 build?

br,
oaky

**Aleks Seovic** · 02-21-2006, 06:55 AM

I was wondering why that <span> started showing up all of the sudden...

I will change both Content and ContentPlaceHolder to inherit from the Control, as they used to.

Thanks,

Aleks

**Bruno Baia** · 02-21-2006, 11:01 PM

Aleks,

if needed, u can keep base class WebControl overriding RenderBeginTag and RenderEndTag methods to remove the span tag generated.

something like that :

Code:

public override void RenderBeginTag&#40;HtmlTextWriter text&#41;
&#123;&#125;

public override void RenderEndTag&#40;HtmlTextWriter text&#41;
&#123;&#125;

Bruno

**Aleks Seovic** · 02-21-2006, 11:15 PM

I already changed it back to Control -- I don't think there is any real need to inherit from WebControl, but someone once mentioned that it gives you design-time support out of the box, so I changed it.

Now that we have appropriate design-time attributes on the class anyway, there is no need whatsoever to inherit from WebControl.

- Aleks

**wouterc** · 03-31-2006, 06:51 AM

Hi,

I'm also facing this problem. But what's the best way to solve this issue?

**Aleks Seovic** · 03-31-2006, 06:25 PM

It's already been solved, you just need to use one of the latest nightly builds instead of 1.1 P2 release. You can download nightlies from our website.

- Aleks

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