Cannot invoke stylesheet in ASPX pages displaying in contentplaceholder

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Hi I have an ASPX page, displaying in a contentplaceholder.
The ASPX page has a materpage.
I found on the web that I can only invoke the Stylesheet through the masterpage.
it looks like this:

XML

<head runat="server">
    <title>MasterPage Page</title>
    <link href="~/Maintenance.css" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

This tells me there is an autamitic inherance of the stylesheet for the aspx page.

I added a format to the stylesheet:

CSS

table_PageHeader
{
    padding: 0,0,0,0;
    font-family: Tahoma;
    font-size: 10pt ;
    width:99%;
    background-color:Black ;
    text-align: center ;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

Then, I wish to apply it to a table row on the aspx page.
This I try to achieve by typing in the name "table_PageHeader" in the Class property of the selected table row.
Note, my expectation is that Class property should drop down the different elements in the style sheet as I have found in ASP.NET 2008, but not in 2005 sofar.

The format does not seem to take effect in either development or runtime mode.
Please help. What am I missing ?

Posted 2-Mar-10 22:30pm

wbeetge

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Nicholas Butler · Answer 1 · 2010-03-02T22:39:00

Solution 1

To specify a class in css, you need to prefix the name with a dot:

.table_PageHeader
{
  ...
}

Also, you can add a ContentPlaceHolder in the head section of your master page if you want to be able to add a stylesheet in a page.

Nick

Posted 2-Mar-10 22:39pm

Nicholas Butler