Menu.MenuItemDataBound Event

Definition

Occurs when a menu item in a Menu control is bound to data.

C#
public event System.Web.UI.WebControls.MenuEventHandler MenuItemDataBound;

Event Type

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to create an event handler for the MenuItemDataBound event that modifies the text of the Home menu item before it is displayed in a Menu control.

ASP.NET (C#)

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">

  void NavigationMenu_MenuItemDataBound(Object sender, MenuEventArgs e)
  {
    // Modify the text of the Home menu item by 
    // adding parenthesis around the text. 
    if (e.Item.Text == "Home")
    {
      e.Item.Text = "(" + e.Item.Text + ")";
    }
  }
  
</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>Menu MenuItemDataBound Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    
      <h3>Menu MenuItemDataBound Example</h3>
    
      <asp:menu id="NavigationMenu"
        staticdisplaylevels="2"
        staticsubmenuindent="10" 
        orientation="Vertical"
        target="_blank"
        datasourceid="MenuSource"
        onmenuitemdatabound="NavigationMenu_MenuItemDataBound"    
        runat="server">

      </asp:menu>
      
      <asp:SiteMapDataSource id="MenuSource"
        runat="server"/>        

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

Remarks

The MenuItemDataBound event is raised when a menu item is bound to data in a Menu control. This allows you to provide an event handler that performs a custom routine, such as adding custom content or modifying a menu item before it is rendered, whenever this event occurs.

A MenuEventArgs object is passed to the event handler, which allows you to access the properties of the menu item that raised the event.

For more information about how to handle events, see Handling and Raising Events.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1

See also