Hello all,

I think I may have difficulty articlating this all.

I am using master pages.  I have that working well... my main template.master is being employed by several pages.

Now I want to logically build my navigation.  Based on whether or not the user is logged in I want the nav to appear differently.  I have a method in a preRender event to assemble the nav's html.

BUT when I add an <asplabel id="lblNav" runat="server" /> it seems to be inaccessible by my pages that are using the master page.  Currently I have to add a content placeholder for the nav and then add it to every page.  Obviously, that is less than ideal. 

How can I add a control to the master page and then be able to assign/modify its value in a page that is built from the master page?

Perhaps I am missing something, but I am somewhat unfamiliar with .NET.

You can get the reference to the control by using the following code :)

Control myControlThatIsOnTheMasterPage = this.Master.FindControl("theControlsID");

myControlThatIsOnTheMasterPage.Visible = false!!! (or whatever)

... you can use the control's type too..

DropDownList myControlBlahBlah = (DropDownList)this.Master.FindControl("myDList");

Hope this helps.
 

Wow, you nailed it.  I wasn't sure anyone would understand what I meant.  I cast the contols as their type and all worked wonderfully.

Thank you Nullable.

Tom