Adding meta tag programmatically in C#

Question

I\'m trying to programmatically add a . It is working fine when there is a Head element with runat = \"server\" in the

Answer 1

OK, I tested the answer by veggerby, and it works perfectly:

In the

section:

Note that Visual Studio might show a warning on the PlaceHolder tag, because it is not recognised as a known element inside the header, but you can ignore this. It works.

In the C# code:

HtmlMeta meta = new HtmlMeta();
meta.Name = "robots";
meta.Content = "noindex,follow";
MetaPlaceHolder.Controls.Add(meta);

Alternatively (since you already have code blocks using <% %> in your header section), you can tag the meta directly and retrieve only the value from server side: