Does a MasterPage know what page is being displayed?

Question

When I navigate on a website utilizing MasterPages, does the application know what page I am on? If so, does it store it in an object I can access?

The reason I am

Answer 1

Yes, Use the below code in your master file. It will give you the content page name.

Page.ToString().Replace("ASP.","").Replace("_",".")

Answer 2

try

this.Page.Master

It will get you the master page of the current page.

Answer 3

There's also the Request.RawURL

Answer 4

You'd probably just use one of the Request path from within the master page to set the current. I'd probably also have a property on the master page to override it, so that pages without links or something could set it to something reasonable.

Answer 5

The navigation control, not the master page, should be in charge of what page is currently highlighted.

Either the page that is loaded should notify the navigation item who it is, or the nav control itself should keep track of it.

The point is that master pages are supposed to simply be a holder that content is displayed in. They aren't supposed to control anything.

Answer 6

Alternatively you can search for page title if you have set an specific title to the child page instead of masterpage try:

this.Page.Title

Hope it helps.