How to Link Stylesheets from a Master Page (Part 2)

The omnipresent Scott Guthrie has descended upon this blog to set the record straight: the header control was ordained with magical powers of URL rebasing in pre-existence! If you pull out your dusty magnifying glass and pore over Scott’s comment, note this key phrase: relative to the master page location. I guess no need to use my property hack in the head, although it comes in handy in the rest of the master page.

And then Scott Allen steals the thunder again: what if you put a ContentPlaceHolder right in the head? Good idea.

<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="AdditionalHeaderEntries" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>

If I need to declare page-scope CSS rules or link to an external JavaScript file, I can do it selectively on every page that needs extra beef:

<asp:Content
     ContentPlaceHolderID="AdditionalHeaderEntries"
      runat="server">

<style type="text/css" media="all">
   h1 { 
     text-align: center; 
     line-height: 1.3em; 
     margin-top: 0.5em; 
    }
</style>
</asp:Content>

Many thanks to Scott and Scott for the discussion.