October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1920 pages
73h 55m
English
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Creating Default Content
You don’t need to associate a Content control with every ContentPlaceHolder control contained in a Master Page. You can provide default content in a ContentPlaceHolder control, and the default content appears unless it is overridden in a particular content page.
For example, the Master Page in Listing 5.3 includes an additional column, which displays a banner advertisement (see Figure 5.2). The banner advertisement is contained in a ContentPlaceHolder control named contentAd.
Figure 5.2. Displaying default content in a Master Page.
Listing 5.3. DefaultMaster.master
The content page in Listing 5.4 uses the Master ...