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Question

I have a site a few years old that contains about 30 aspx Web Form pages with code behind. I want to add a common master page to all these with the minimum amount of work.

Essentially, I just need to add everything in the body tags to the Content Placeholder, and preserve the code behind.

Is there a fast way to do this?

Answer 1

For each page do the following - Add an attribute to the <@Page > tag named MasterPageFile="Your MasterPage Path" - Add the following tag - Remove html and head tags and their contents except body tag - Remove the body tags BUT KEEP its contetnts - Remove the form tag - Done

Answer 2

cut and paste works fine - cut out all the old header/footer stuff and paste in the content control tag, and add the masterpage name and you're done

Answer 3

One thing to keep in mind is when you add a master page you are adding a naming container so all of your client id's will change. If you have any static javascript which is tied to your controls be sure to update the id's.