MenuEventArgs.Item Property

 

Gets the menu item associated with the event raised.

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

Public ReadOnly Property Item As MenuItem

Property Value

Type: System.Web.UI.WebControls.MenuItem

A MenuItem that represents the menu item associated with the event raised.

Use the Item property to access or modify the properties of the menu item associated with the event raised. For the MenuItemClick event, this item represents the menu item clicked by the user. For the MenuItemDataBound event, this item represents the menu item being bound to data.

The following code example demonstrates how to use the Item property to access the properties of the menu item clicked by the user. The text of the selected menu item is displayed on the page.


<%@ 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 MenuItemClick_NavigationMenu(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As MenuEventArgs)

    ' Display the text of the menu item selected by the user.
    Message.Text = "You selected " & e.Item.Text & "."

  End Sub

</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>MenuEventArgs Item Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">

      <h3>MenuEventArgs Item Example</h3>

      <asp:menu id="NavigationMenu"
        staticdisplaylevels="2"
        staticsubmenuindent="10" 
        orientation="Vertical"
        onmenuitemclick="MenuItemClick_NavigationMenu" 
        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>

.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
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