PageControl Content - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 27-Jul-2011 00:00

How do I access the content inside of a PageControl?

Here is what I have so far:

var pageManager = PageManager.GetManager();

PageSiteNode currentNode = SiteMapBase.GetActualCurrentNode();

if (currentNode == null)

return;

PageData pageData = pageManager.GetPageData(currentNode.PageId);

foreach (PageControl webCtrl in pageData.Controls)

if (webCtrl.PlaceHolder == "ContentPlaceHolder1")

Literal1.Text = ???

Posted by Community Admin on 28-Jul-2011 00:00

I think I figured it out!

foreach (PageControl webCtrl in pageData.Controls)

if (webCtrl.PlaceHolder == "ContentPlaceHolder1")

var cntr = pageManager.LoadControl(webCtrl) as ContentBlock;

Literal1.Text = cntr.Html;

Posted by Community Admin on 22-Sep-2011 00:00

just wanted to say thanks for posting your solution! I was trying to figure out exactly this, getting a PageControl from a Sitefinity page and converting it to a regular control.

the LoadControl method did the trick! thanks again!

Posted by Community Admin on 08-Mar-2013 00:00

You can also do it without the page manager if you like:

pageData.Controls.FirstOrDefault(x => x.ObjectType == typeof(ContentBlock).FullName && x.PlaceHolder == placeHolder).Properties.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == "Html").Value;

Have you ever done this with other controls. Like I want to get the rendered HTML that would be created by a NewsView. I am trying this but always get back an empty string:

var pageControl = pageData.Controls.FirstOrDefault(x => x.ObjectType == typeof(NewsView).FullName && x.PlaceHolder == placeHolder);

var stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();

var htmlTextWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(new StringWriter(stringBuilder));

var newsView = PageManager.GetManager().LoadControl(pageControl);

newsView.RenderControl(htmlTextWriter);

content += stringBuilder.ToString();

Any ideas?

Posted by Community Admin on 24-Oct-2014 00:00

Thank you for posting the solution. This was truly helpful.

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