Hi All, hope you can help with this (I'm not great with ASP!)

I have a master page with several user controls. One user control is a basic user status display with a linkbutton to allow the user to log out.

This caused an error because it said the linkbutton had to be inside a <form> declaration. Because you can't declare a <form> inside a user control I opened up the <form> element on the master page to cover the entire page (include the dropped in user controls). All worked well .... until I then put some serverside controls in the master page's placeholder - now I get the same error for the code inside the placeholder.

It seems the master page is getting confused between whether the user control or the placeholder is inside it.

Any help greatly appreciated!

PS I'm sure this has been posted somewhere else, but the search isn't great on here!

Hey,

You put some controls in the masterpage's contentplaceholder in the master page or the content page?  You can't put controls in the masterpage's contentplaceholder, as that is a designation to mark the <asp:Content> regions on the content page...  Seeing the html would help solve this problem also.

Thanks for the prompt reply!

I have a master page with a placeholder (for the bits that I customise on each page). But I have added a user status to the top of the master page (because I want it to appear on every page). When I added this user status control I had to widen the <form> to cover the whole master page to make it work.

I guess what you're saying is that the master page should only have place holders. Then I should drop the user status into each page that I use (ie make a placeholder for the user status in the master page rather than making it part of the master page)?

This would be long-winded but reasonably easy. I guess I could be expecting too much of master pages!

Hey,

That's not what I'm saying at all; it made it seem like this user status control was defined between <asp:ContentPlaceHolder></asp:ContentPlaceHolder> elements, which isn't allowed.  I think we won't be able to help you unless we can see what is going on.  Could you post the master page HTML and one of the content page HTML that you were having problems with?