Menu.Items Property
Gets a MenuItemCollection object that contains all menu items in the Menu control.
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
<PersistenceModeAttribute(PersistenceMode.InnerProperty)> Public ReadOnly Property Items As MenuItemCollection
Property Value
Type: System.Web.UI.WebControls.MenuItemCollectionA MenuItemCollection that contains all menu items in the Menu control.
Use the Items property (collection) to get a MenuItemCollection object that contains all the menu items in a Menu control. This collection is commonly used to quickly iterate through all the menu items, or to access a specific menu item.
The Items collection can also be used to programmatically manage the menu items. You can add, insert, remove, and retrieve MenuItem collection objects. Any updates to the collection will automatically be reflected in the Menu control after the next round trip to the server.
The following code example demonstrates how to use the Items collection to traverse the menu items in the Menu control.
<%@ Page Language="VB" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <script runat="server"> Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) ' If the Menu control contains any root nodes, perform a ' preorder traversal of the tree and display the text of ' each node. If NavigationMenu.Items.Count > 0 Then ' Iterate through the root menu items in the Items collection. Dim item As MenuItem For Each item In NavigationMenu.Items ' Display the menu items. DisplayChildMenuText(item) Next Else Message.Text = "The Menu control does not have any items." End If End Sub Sub DisplayChildMenuText(ByVal item As MenuItem) ' Display the menu item's text value. Message.Text &= item.Text & "<br />" ' Iterate through the child menu items of the parent menu item ' passed into this method, and display their values. Dim childItem As MenuItem For Each childItem In item.ChildItems ' Recursively call the DisplayChildMenuText method to ' traverse the tree and display all child menu items. DisplayChildMenuText(childItem) Next End Sub </script> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head runat="server"> <title>Menu Items Example</title> </head> <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <h3>Menu Items Example</h3> <asp:menu id="NavigationMenu" staticdisplaylevels="2" staticsubmenuindent="10" orientation="Vertical" runat="server"> <items> <asp:menuitem text="Home" tooltip="Home"> <asp:menuitem text="Music" tooltip="Music"> <asp:menuitem text="Classical" tooltip="Classical"/> <asp:menuitem text="Rock" tooltip="Rock"/> <asp:menuitem text="Jazz" tooltip="Jazz"/> </asp:menuitem> <asp:menuitem text="Movies" tooltip="Movies"> <asp:menuitem text="Action" tooltip="Action"/> <asp:menuitem text="Drama" tooltip="Drama"/> <asp:menuitem text="Musical" tooltip="Musical"/> </asp:menuitem> </asp:menuitem> </items> </asp:menu> <hr/> <asp:label id="Message" runat="server"/> </form> </body> </html>
Available since 2.0