MenuItem.Text Property

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: System.Web.UI.WebControls

Assembly:: System.Web.dll

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Gets or sets the text displayed for the menu item in a Menu control.

public:
 property System::String ^ Text { System::String ^ get(); void set(System::String ^ value); };

public string Text { get; set; }

member this.Text : string with get, set

Public Property Text As String

Property Value

String

The text displayed for the menu item in the Menu control. The default is an empty string ("").

Examples

The following example demonstrates how to use the Text property to specify the text to display in each menu item in a Menu control.


<%@ 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>MenuItem Declarative Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    
      <h3>MenuItem Declarative Example</h3>
    
      <!-- Use declarative syntax to create the   -->
      <!-- menu structure. Create submenu items   -->
      <!-- by nesting them within parent menu     -->
      <!-- items.                                 -->
      <asp:menu id="NavigationMenu"
        staticdisplaylevels="1"
        staticsubmenuindent="10" 
        orientation="Vertical" 
        target="_blank"  
        runat="server">

        <items>
          <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Home.aspx" 
            text="Home"
            imageurl="Images\Home.gif"
            popoutimageurl="Images\Popout.jpg"   
            tooltip="Home">
            <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Music.aspx"
              text="Music"
              popoutimageurl="Images\Popout.jpg"
              tooltip="Music">
              <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Classical.aspx" 
                text="Classical"
                separatorimageurl="Images\Separator.jpg"
                tooltip="Classical"/>
              <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Rock.aspx"
                text="Rock"
                separatorimageurl="Images\Separator.jpg"
                tooltip="Rock"/>
              <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Jazz.aspx"
                text="Jazz"
                separatorimageurl="Images\Separator.jpg"
                tooltip="Jazz"/>
            </asp:menuitem>
            <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Movies.aspx"
              text="Movies"
              popoutimageurl="Images\Popout.jpg"              
              tooltip="Movies">
              <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Action.aspx"
                text="Action"
                separatorimageurl="Images\Separator.jpg"
                tooltip="Action"/>
              <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Drama.aspx"
                text="Drama"
                separatorimageurl="Images\Separator.jpg"
                tooltip="Drama"/>
              <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Musical.aspx"
                text="Musical"
                separatorimageurl="Images\Separator.jpg"
                tooltip="Musical"/>
            </asp:menuitem>
          </asp:menuitem>
        </items>
      
      </asp:menu>

    </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>MenuItem Declarative Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    
      <h3>MenuItem Declarative Example</h3>
    
      <!-- Use declarative syntax to create the   -->
      <!-- menu structure. Create submenu items   -->
      <!-- by nesting them within parent menu     -->
      <!-- items.                                 -->
      <asp:menu id="NavigationMenu"
        staticdisplaylevels="1"
        staticsubmenuindent="10" 
        orientation="Vertical" 
        target="_blank"  
        runat="server">

        <items>
          <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Home.aspx" 
            text="Home"
            imageurl="Images\Home.gif"
            popoutimageurl="Images\Popout.jpg"   
            tooltip="Home">
            <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Music.aspx"
              text="Music"
              popoutimageurl="Images\Popout.jpg"
              tooltip="Music">
              <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Classical.aspx" 
                text="Classical"
                separatorimageurl="Images\Separator.jpg"
                tooltip="Classical"/>
              <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Rock.aspx"
                text="Rock"
                separatorimageurl="Images\Separator.jpg"
                tooltip="Rock"/>
              <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Jazz.aspx"
                text="Jazz"
                separatorimageurl="Images\Separator.jpg"
                tooltip="Jazz"/>
            </asp:menuitem>
            <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Movies.aspx"
              text="Movies"
              popoutimageurl="Images\Popout.jpg"              
              tooltip="Movies">
              <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Action.aspx"
                text="Action"
                separatorimageurl="Images\Separator.jpg"
                tooltip="Action"/>
              <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Drama.aspx"
                text="Drama"
                separatorimageurl="Images\Separator.jpg"
                tooltip="Drama"/>
              <asp:menuitem navigateurl="Musical.aspx"
                text="Musical"
                separatorimageurl="Images\Separator.jpg"
                tooltip="Musical"/>
            </asp:menuitem>
          </asp:menuitem>
        </items>
      
      </asp:menu>

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

Remarks

Use the Text property to specify or determine the text that is displayed for the menu item in the Menu control.

Note

If the Text property contains null, the get accessor returns the value of the Value property. If the Value property, in turn, contains null, Empty is returned.

The value of this property, when set, can be saved automatically to a resource file by using a designer tool. For more information, see LocalizableAttribute and Globalization and Localization.

Applies to

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