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MenuItemStyle::HorizontalPadding Property

Gets or sets the amount of space to the left and right of the menu item's text.

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

public:
property Unit HorizontalPadding {
	Unit get ();
	void set (Unit value);
}

Property Value

Type: System.Web.UI.WebControls::Unit
The amount of space (in pixels) to the left and right of the menu item's text. The default is 0.

ExceptionCondition
ArgumentOutOfRangeException

The selected value is of type Percentage.

- or -

The selected value is less than 0.

Use the HorizontalPadding property to control the amount of horizontal space around the text of the menu item to which the MenuItemStyle object is applied. This space is inserted between the left edge of the text and the border of the text area, and between the right edge of the text and the text's border. To control the vertical spacing, use the VerticalPadding property.

The following code example demonstrates how to use the HorizontalPadding property to pad the horizontal spacing around the text of a menu item by 10 pixels.

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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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