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Using Umbraco and Razor Syntax to add attributes to body tag for CSS targetting
On 22 February 2011, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley

I never found a solution that I was happy with for adding unique idâ€™s to a page body tag that didnâ€™t feel like a hack. I often need to do it for very specific CSS targeting so I introduce to you my current solution using the new Razor syntax inside of a master template in Umbraco.
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<umbraco:macro runat="server" language="razor">
 
<body id="@Model.Id">
 
</umbraco:macro>
UPDATED: The example above has now been updated to simplify it and require just a single piece of code inside of the inline-macro â€œ@Model.Idâ€ to output the current page id.
Essentially all this is doing is appending the current node id to a string (in my case just the letter â€˜pâ€™) and adding it to the id attribute of the html body tag.
I tend to also need to take this one step further and include the id of a parent page in case styling is applied to a section of the content tree, I do this by adding a class to the body tag which contains the section id. The solution for this that I have used successfully on a current project is as follows:
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<umbraco:macro runat="server" language="razor">
 
@{
    var node = Model;
    var sid = "s" + Model.Id;
    var level = 2;
 
    while(node.Level > 1)
    {
        if (node.Level == level)
        {
          // Add any logic in here then create your class
          sid = "s" + node.Id;
        }
        node = node.Parent;
    }
}
 
<body id="@Model.Id" class="@sid">
 
</umbraco:macro>
As in the previous example I am appending the current page id to a string and adding it to the id attribute of the body tag. I am also using a while loop to walk up the content tree to a specific level in the content tree, which in this case is level 2 and I am getting the id of the page at the specified level and appending it to a string(which in this case is â€˜sâ€™) and adding it to the class attribute of the body tag.
So what have I gained by doing this? I can now apply specifically targeted CSS styling to individual pages or to an entire section of the content tree.
I would welcome any comments from those more familiar with Razor in Umbraco on the performance overhead of doing this on each page load since I am including this in my master page.
* Credit goes to Jonas Eriksson for his tip on the Razor syntax for accessing parent nodes and to Aaron Powell for his introduction to â€œUsing Razor in Umbraco 4â€ blog post.

URL: http://www.prolificnotion.co.uk/using-umbraco-and-razor-syntax-to-add-attributes-to-body-tag-for-css-targetting/#

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