Sitecore adding extra title to header

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I am an asp.net developer working on a sitecore based site, our sitecore expert is on holiday at the moment and sitecore seems to be doing something that I don't understand. I need to dynamically add meta tags to the page header so I added runat="server to the head tag as below ``` ``` This works and allows me to do what I need to do, however there is a strange side effect, it adds an empty `` tag to the header and I can't work out how and why this is happening. We currently have a site wide static title so we end up 2 title tags which is annoying. However we intend to start setting the page title dynamically soon so guess I want to know 2 things? Why/how is is this happening? Is it something that can easily be hooked into to set the page title dynamically based on the value of a sitecore field?

Accepted Answer

From what I know it's a known asp.net issue (feature?). You can add a hidden title tag runat server to the head, to avoid creating additional empty title tag, e.g.: ``` <%-- I'm necessary here, do not remove me --%> ```

Sitecore adding extra title to header

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