ASP.NET 2.0 gave developers a server-based styling technology called Themes. From the web.config file a single line can dictate how an entire web site will look. The theme of this site at this writing is called Joshua.

<system.web>
 <pages theme="Joshua"/>
</system.web>

Microsoft tells us that is we want to turn off theming for a given page and not the entire site, we can set the EnableTheming property to false. But this doesn't work. The web.config setting will override the Page directive.

<%@ Page Language="C#" EnableTheming="false" %>

To get around this bug for a single page, specify a Theme with no value in the Page directive.

<%@ Page Language="C#" Theme="" %>

Labels: ASP.NET, EnableTheming, Themes