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Programmatically hide a ContentPlaceHolder of a Master Page

Hi,

Is there a way to programmatically hide a ContentPlaceHolder of a Master Page during Page_Load of a content page in asp.net using C#? I need to hide a ContentPlaceHolder in a master page from a content page during runtime or during Page_Load of a content page.

Thanks in advance.

wht1986

I always like to add public method and properties to my master page. This way I can access easily anything i want on derived pages.

On the master page
 
public partial class MyMasterPage : System.Web.UI.MasterPage
{
    public void SetContentVisibility(bool isVisible)
    {
        this.ContentPlaceHolder1.Visible = isVisible;
    }
}
 
 
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On the derived page
 
public partial class Default2 : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        MyMasterPage mp = (MyMasterPage)this.Master;
        mp.SetContentVisibility(false);
    }
}

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Bobby X

ASKER

Hi wht1986,

In my master page, I'm getting a red underline on "MyContentHolder" with Intellisense of VS 2008 indicating something's wrong and also a red underline on "SecondLevelMasterPage" in my code-behind page. Please see code below.

Thanks.

My Master Page:
 
<%@ Master Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" EnableViewState="true" CodeFile="MyMaster.master.cs" Inherits="MyMaster" %>
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<script runat="server">
    public partial class MyMasterPage : System.Web.UI.MasterPage
    {
        public void SetContentVisibility(bool isVisible)
        {
            this.MyContentHolder.Visible = isVisible;
        }
    }
</script>
 
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="MyContentHolder" runat="server">         </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
 
My Content Page's directive:
<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="MyMaster.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="solutions.aspx.cs" Inherits="solutions" %>
 
My Content Page's code-behind:
public partial class solutions : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        SecondLevelMasterPage mp = (SecondLevelMasterPage)this.Master;
        mp.SetContentVisibility(false);
     }
}

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Bobby X

ASKER

wht1986,

It works. I'll accept it as solution in a minute. I have another question. If I turn a regular html <DIV ID="myDiv"> tag into a server control by adding the "runat=server" attribute to the tag (DIV), can I use this same approach (same code) to hide this <DIV>? If yes and the code is different, would you please provide the code as well.

Thanks very much in advance.

Bobby X

ASKER

hi wht1986,
I tried the same code for hiding a <DIV>, and it worked.

Thanks very much for all the help.