title: How to show property of masterpage on a page in Umbraco
body: <p>I have an umbraco project with a masterpage (with it's own content type) and a homepage underneath it.</p>
  
  <p>The masterpage content type includes stuff like the footer, header etc.</p>
  
  <p>However when I look at the homepage, the properties of the masterpage don't display.
  In the masterpage template I have the line:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;umbraco:Item field="footerText" runat="server" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But this doesn't pull the footerText property from the masterpage properties.</p>
  
  <p>I am guessing it has something to do with the fact that properties are not inherited, so how do we go around that? Writing a simple macro that pulls the data or is there a quicker way?</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks</p>