How to determine which Child Page is being displayed from Master Page?

Question

I\'m writing code on the master page, and I need to know which child (content) page is being displayed. How can I do this programmatically?

Answer 1

This sounds like a bad idea to start with. The idea of the master is that it shouldn't care what page is there as this is all common code for each page.

Answer 2

I use this:

string pageName = this.ContentPlaceHolder1.Page.GetType().FullName;

It retuns the class name in this format "ASP.default_aspx", but I find that easy to parse for most purposes.

Hope that helps!

Answer 3

Page.Request.Url.PathAndQuery or one of the other properties of the Url Uri object should be available to you from the master page code.

Answer 4

I do something similar to this in a project of mine to dynamically attach css files based on the page being loaded. I just get the name of the file from the request:

this.Request.Url.AbsolutePath

And then extract the file name from there. I'm not sure if this will work if you are doing URL re-writes though.