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# re: Page Layout Error: 'Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls'

I noticed this could also happen if you put your javascript accidently inside a div with asp:content.  works fine locally, but get the same strange error when I deployed.  It was fixed as soon as I moved the javascript into the first asp content tag (the header)

# re: Page Layout Error: 'Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls'

Thanks, your post helped me to figure out how to fix this problem after spending several hours in bewilderment.

# re: Page Layout Error: 'Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls'

I got this with a mis-formed elements.xml file inside a content type feature.

I had deleted the <FieldDefs></FieldDefs> tag inside the <Elements><ContentType> tags.

'Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls' is the error I got as a result.  Nothing to do with my HTML.

# re: Page Layout Error: 'Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls'

No, what I said about elements.xml was wrong, and what Bas said was right.

But it was *very* subtle for me.

I could use a lowercase asp:content tag happily when pushing aspx files across manually to the 12 hive.

But if I *deployed* a feature containing a page with an asp:content tag, via a wsp, then that page would break, and nothing I did (including fixing the case of the content tag and pushing the file across again) would un-break it.

So I needed to fix the case (change to asp:Content ) and THEN do a redeploy and regenerate the site.

If I deployed with correct case, I could break the case and my page would keep working.  If I deployed with incorrect case, nothing would fix the page.

Argh!  A few hours of my life I'll never get back.

# re: Page Layout Error: 'Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls'

I am still wondering on this error. Neither of the above solution worked for me.

# re: Page Layout Error: 'Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls'

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# re: Page Layout Error: 'Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls'

I have the same error and the extra HTML added to my Page layouts.

However in my page layouts the <asp:Content> tags all have the correct casing. When I , after deployment, open the page layout with SharePoint Designer all the <asp:Content> tags are in lowercase.

Seems that during the deploy / publishing process the casing gets altered.

Any ideas?

# re: Page Layout Error: 'Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls'

Everything in a page with <asp:Content></asp:Content> tags has to stay within the tags.  Better to not use them and use standard

*%@ Assembly reference stuff @%*

*%@ Namespace stuff @%*

*html**head**/head**body**/body**/html* tags instead (put in the less than and greater than symbols in for "*", as appropriate), if you can get away with it (outside of SharePoint - Otherwise, can only use Content fields).    Any scripts to be run on the server would go in code-behind.

# re: Page Layout Error: 'Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls'

I had error in the aspx page itself.

Means, previously the end tag of <asp:Content>> is like this. '>' was added accidently.

I removed that ,then it worked.

# re: Page Layout Error: 'Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls'

strange, but have with similar problam - but only on ONE machine. My bad that this is the build server :/

so everything works fine on the developer machines but the build broke on the ci server with this issue.

We are working with ASP.NET MVC 1.0. Any idea?

thank you