find control in page

Question

HTML

Answer 1

To find the button on your content page you have to search for the ContentPlaceHolder1 control first. Then use the FindControl function on the ContentPlaceHolder1 control to search for your button:

 ContentPlaceHolder cph = (ContentPlaceHolder)this.Master.FindControl("ContentPlaceHolder1");
 Response.Write(((Button)cph.FindControl("a")).Text);