"Weston Fryatt" <wfryatt "at" mlinks.net> wrote in message
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> Can you change text or add controls dynamically on a Master Page (not in
> the Content Place Holder)?

> Yes - a MasterPage is really just a particular kind of UserControl.
>
> So, e.g. if the MasterPage had a Label called "lblHeading", you could do
> the following in the Page_Load method of the ContentPage:
>
> ((Label)this.Master.FindControl("lblHeading")).Text = "Hello world";
>

"Jesse Liberty" <jliberty@libertyassociates.com> wrote in message
news:He-dnYR2q6hXSoLYnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@speakeasy.net...

> Yes, but if you anticipate it in advance, you can make the label's text a
> property of the master page
>
> public string LblHeading
> {
> get { return this.lblHeading.Text; }
> set { this.lblHeading.Text = value; }
> }
>
> Then, in the content page, all you have to write is
>
> this.Master.LblHeading = "Hello World";