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MenuAdapter::RenderItem Method

Renders a single menu item as a hyperlink.

Namespace:  System.Web.UI.WebControls.Adapters
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

protected public:
virtual void RenderItem(
	HtmlTextWriter^ writer, 
	MenuItem^ item, 
	int position
)

Parameters

writer
Type: System.Web.UI::HtmlTextWriter

The HtmlTextWriter instance containing methods to build and render the device-specific output.

item
Type: System.Web.UI.WebControls::MenuItem

The MenuItem object containing the properties to write to the response stream.

position
Type: System::Int32

The position of the specified MenuItem object in the menu hierarchy.

The RenderItem method is called from the RenderContents method to retrieve the styles and spacing attributes from the MenuItem object and apply them to a newly created hyperlink element. The menu hierarchy is traversed in the RenderContents method and will call the RenderItem method to render each item. Each item is rendered as a hyperlink and inherits the properties and styles of the specified MenuItem control. The hyperlink rendered to the page is one of the following:

  • A postback event to open or select the item.

  • A link to navigate to the target specified in the NavigateUrl property of the MenuItem control.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0
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