How to get Explorer 7 to pick up my RSS link

JJ · Jun 4, 2007

I have a link on a page on my site that when clicked presents the XML which
repesents the RSS feed for the page.

I can't seem to get Internet Explorer to automatically light up its 'RSS
FEED' icon - i.e. its not detecting the rss.

How can I make explorer see the feed?

Thanks,

JJ

Steve C. Orr [MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASP Insider] · Jun 4, 2007

It takes a single link element in the header section of a Web page to ensure
browsers recognize the RSS file for your site:

<head runat="server">

<link rel="alternate"

type="application/rss+xml"

title="Some Web Site's RSS Feed"

href="http://someweb.net/rss.aspx" />
</head>

Here's more info:
http://SteveOrr.net/articles/RSS.aspx

JJ · Jun 4, 2007

Thanks Steve. I couldn't find that information anywhere. Now I need to see
if I can programmatically add that to the header, as the master page is also
used in pages without RSS feeds on them.

JJ

JJ · Jun 4, 2007

System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlHead pageHeader;
pageHeader = (System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlHead)this.Page.Header;
if (pageHeader != null)
{
HtmlLink rssLink = new HtmlLink();
rssLink.Attributes.Add("rel", "alternate");
rssLink.Attributes.Add("type", "application/rss+xml");
rssLink.Attributes.Add("title", "Some Web Site's RSS Feed");
rssLink.Attributes.Add("href", "http://someweb.net/rss.aspx");
pageHeader.Controls.Add(rssLink);
}

JJ

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How to get Explorer 7 to pick up my RSS link

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