Custom master page error : “You must specify a value for this required field”

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Custom master page error : “You must specify a value for this required field”

July 20, 2011 by W0ut

When using a custom master page and editing a page in SharePoint 2010 I received a dialog box the following error:

“You must specify a value for this required field”.

This error is caused when you set the contentplaceholder ‘PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea’ to: Visible=”False”. After removing the Visible=False attribute from the contentplaceholder the error disappeared.

As a workaround you can wrap the contentplaceholder in a <div> and hide the div with a little CSS. That way the contentplaceholder is still in place but hidden for the user.

<div style="display: none;">
    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea" runat="server" >&nbsp;</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</div>

Hope it helps.

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Posted in Branding, Layout, look and feel, Development, SharePoint | 2 Comments

2 Responses

on March 9, 2012 at 17:07 | Reply Jeremy Branham

Thanks for this! I would have been digging for hours had you not posted this.
on March 9, 2012 at 17:09 | Reply Jeremy Branham

Reblogged this on Jeremy Branham's Blog and commented:
Thank you W0ut. This saved me some time.