<p>OK, another road bump in my current project.</p>

<p>I have never had form elements in <strong>both</strong> my master and content pages, I tend to have all the forms in the content where relevant.</p>

<p>In the current project however, we have a page where they want both. <strong>A login form at the top right, and a questions form in the content.</strong></p>

<p>Having tried to get this in, I have run in to the issue of ASP.NET moaning about the need for a single form element in a master page. TBH, I really dont get why this is a requirement on ASP.NET's part, but hey ho.</p>

<p><strong>Does anyone know if/how I can get the master and content pages to contain form elements that work independantly?</strong></p>

<p>If not, can you offer advice on how to proceed to get the desired look/functionality?</p>

no, you can only have one asp.net form per page.
That has been the rule since 1.0
They should both share the same form