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  • munyung 6 posts 26 karma points
    Mar 05, 2012 @ 18:09
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    Master.FindControl returns null on everything when wrapped with ContentPlaceHolderDefault

    First time umbraco dev here.

    i'm trying to set a class on my body element thats found on the first master page.

    How i have it set up right now is

    page.master -> landing.master -> content.master

    based on what the content type is, the body's class attribute has to be changed. 

    so i'v made a recursive method to find the correct master page for me(in this case, page.master) and change the class for the body element. everything works fine.

    and then i wrap it with

    asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolderDefault" runat="server"

    in the @master directive, i have MasterPageFile="~/umbraco/masterpages/default.master"

    then the FindControl method returns null on everything.

    i cannot for the life of me figure out whats wrong.

    another side effect of the wrap is that i lose all my intellisense for the asp and umbraco namespace.

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  • munyung 6 posts 26 karma points
    Mar 06, 2012 @ 10:19
    munyung
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    anyone?

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  • Asif Malik 203 posts 339 karma points
    Mar 06, 2012 @ 14:43
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    Not sure if this helps but most of the time i add a class to my body tag dependant on what the DocuemntType is (i normally add the actual DocumentType name to the body's class attribute) ... and i use a simple XSLT to provide the data

    <body class="<umbraco:Macro Alias='CssBodyClass' runat='server'></umbraco:Macro>">

    and then the XSLT is simply ... you can off course add extar logic here if need be

      <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:value-of select="name($currentPage)"/>
  </xsl:template>
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  • munyung 6 posts 26 karma points
    Mar 06, 2012 @ 17:28
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    Thanks for that Asif.

    I think the bigger problem here is that the FindControl() method suddenly returns null on everything when i wrap the base master page with the

    "asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolderDefault" to allow canvas editing to work.

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  • Asif Malik 203 posts 339 karma points
    Mar 06, 2012 @ 17:34
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    To be honest havent really used Canvas editing, and i activly try to discourage usage of it ... If you really need to work this out, i would suggest getting the Umbraco source code and debugging through the entire thing

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