How to Dynamically Enable/Highlight RSS Button in IE or FireFox From Asp.Net?

Now days, every web browser has the capability of identify the existence of RSS feeds in the web page. Most of the developer/programmer think it as a built-in function of the browser. But it is NOT.

We have to include script in the html between the <head></head> tags, then only the web browser either IE or FireFox, will identity the RSS feeds in the page and enable the RSS button in it. The link to be added between the <head></head> tags are below

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="AspdotnetCodes.com - Latest Articles" href="http://www.aspdotnetcodes.com/rss.aspx" />

After you add the above <link /> script, browse your page, you can see the RSS button is enabled.

Now, to add the above link script dynamically from the code-behind, add the below code in your page event.

HtmlLink link = new HtmlLink();
link.Attributes.Add("rel", "alternate");
link.Attributes.Add("type", "application/rss+xml");
link.Attributes.Add("title", "AspdotnetCodes.com - Latest Articles");
link.Attributes.Add("href", "http://www.aspdotnetcodes.com/rss.aspx");
Page.Header.Controls.Add(link);

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