Hi,

I have a master page with a literal control. As an example, I'm trying
to set the text of the literal to the current time. In the code behind
for the master page I've got a method that returns the string for the
current time.

So I have this:

<asp:Literal ID="Literal1" runat="server"
Text="<%#GetTime()%>"></asp:Literal>

Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to work in a master page. Any way of
doing this?

// When the control is in the Master
Literal lit = (Literal)Master.FindControl("Literal1");
lit.Text = DateTime.Now( );

// When the control is in a content page we have to use trace to locate the
control in the control hierarchy and use FindControl on each object.

Go to OdeToCode.com there are a series of excellent articles about
MasterPages.

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"Spondishy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a master page with a literal control. As an example, I'm trying
> to set the text of the literal to the current time. In the code behind
> for the master page I've got a method that returns the string for the
> current time.
>
> So I have this:
>
> <asp:Literal ID="Literal1" runat="server"
> Text="<%#GetTime()%>"></asp:Literal>
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to work in a master page. Any way of
> doing this?
>