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MenuItemBinding.ImageUrl Property

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Definition

Namespace:
System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly:
System.Web.dll

Gets or sets the URL to an image that is displayed next to the text of a menu item to which the MenuItemBinding object is applied.

public:
 property System::String ^ ImageUrl { System::String ^ get(); void set(System::String ^ value); };
public string ImageUrl { get; set; }
member this.ImageUrl : string with get, set
Public Property ImageUrl As String

Property Value

String

The URL to an image that is displayed next to the text of a menu item to which the MenuItemBinding is applied. The default is an empty string (""), which indicates that this property is not set.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to use the ImageUrl property to specify the URL to an image to display next to the text of the menu items. This image is displayed in each menu item to which the MenuItemBinding object is applied. For this example to work correctly, you must copy the sample XML data below to a file named Menu.xml.


<%@ page language="C#" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>MenuItemBinding Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">

      <h3>MenuItemBinding Example</h3>

      <asp:menu id="NavigationMenu"
        datasourceid="MenuSource"
        runat="server">
        
        <databindings>
        
          <asp:menuitembinding datamember="MapHomeNode"
            textfield="Title"
            valuefield="Description"
            imageurlfield="ImageUrl"
            tooltipfield="ToolTip"/>
          <asp:menuitembinding datamember="MapNode" 
            depth="1"
            textfield="Title"
            valuefield="Description"
            imageurlfield="ImageUrl"
            tooltipfield="ToolTip"/>
          <asp:menuitembinding datamember="MapNode" 
            depth="2"
            text="Static Title"
            value="Static Description"
            imageurl="~\Images\StaticImage.jpg"
            tooltip="Static ToolTip"/>
          
        </databindings>
        
      </asp:menu>

      <asp:xmldatasource id="MenuSource"
        datafile="Menu.xml"
        runat="server"/> 

    </form>
  </body>
</html>


<%@ page language="VB" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>MenuItemBinding Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">

      <h3>MenuItemBinding Example</h3>

      <asp:menu id="NavigationMenu"
        datasourceid="MenuSource"
        runat="server">
        
        <databindings>
        
          <asp:menuitembinding datamember="MapHomeNode"
            textfield="Title"
            valuefield="Description"
            imageurlfield="ImageUrl"
            tooltipfield="ToolTip"/>
          <asp:menuitembinding datamember="MapNode" 
            depth="1"
            textfield="Title"
            valuefield="Description"
            imageurlfield="ImageUrl"
            tooltipfield="ToolTip"/>
          <asp:menuitembinding datamember="MapNode" 
            depth="2"
            text="Static Title"
            value="Static Description"
            imageurl="~\Images\StaticImage.jpg"
            tooltip="Static ToolTip"/>
          
        </databindings>
        
      </asp:menu>

      <asp:xmldatasource id="MenuSource"
        datafile="Menu.xml"
        runat="server"/> 

    </form>
  </body>
</html>

The following code is sample site map data for the previous example.

<MapHomeNode ImageUrl="~\Images\Home.gif"

Title="Home"

Description="Root Page"

ToolTip="Home Page">

<MapNode ImageUrl="~\Images\Music.gif"

Title="Music"

Description="Music Category"

ToolTip="Music Page">

<MapNode ImageUrl="~\Images\Classical.gif"

Title="Classical"

Description="Classical Section"

ToolTip="Classical Page"/>

<MapNode ImageUrl="~\Images\Rock.gif"

Title="Rock"

Description="Rock Section"

ToolTip="Rock Page"/>

<MapNode ImageUrl="~\Images\Jazz.gif"

Title="Jazz"

Description="Jazz Section"

ToolTip="Jazz Page"/>

</MapNode>

<MapNode ImageUrl="~\Images\Movies.gif"

Title="Movies"

Description="Movies Category"

ToolTip="Movies Page">

<MapNode ImageUrl="~\Images\Action.gif"

Title="Action"

Description="Action Section"

ToolTip="Action Page"/>

<MapNode ImageUrl="~\Images\Drama.gif"

Title="Drama"

Description="Drama Section"

ToolTip="Drama Page"/>

<MapNode ImageUrl="~\Images\Musical.gif"

Title="Musical"

Description="Musical Section"

ToolTip="Musical Page"/>

</MapNode>

</MapHomeNode>

Remarks

When the Menu control is bound to a data source, use the ImageUrl property to specify the URL of a custom image to bind to the MenuItem.ImageUrl property of a MenuItem object. This image is shared with all MenuItem objects to which the MenuItemBinding object is applied. The image is displayed next to a menu item's text and can be in any file format (.jpg, .gif, .bmp, and so on), as long as the client's browser supports that format.

Note

You can override the image for an individual menu item by setting its ImageUrl property directly.

Instead of using this property to display the same image in each menu item, you can also use the ImageUrlField property to bind the ImageUrl property of a MenuItem object to a field of a data source. When rendered, the ImageUrl property of each menu item to which the MenuItemBinding object is applied contains the corresponding value from the field.

Note

If the ImageUrl and ImageUrlField properties are both set, the ImageUrlField property takes precedence.

Applies to

See also