Hello

I have a master page that uses a repeater to create html anchors for the main navigation menu.  I also have some css that controls the display.  The anchors are databound from a web.sitemap file. 

I also have exposed a property on the master page that specifies which anchor is supposed to be highlighted in the navigation menu.  Content forms assign value to this property.

Here are the relevant snippets:

            <div class="menu">
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <asp:HyperLink runat="server" ID="lnkHome" NavigateUrl="~/Default.aspx">Home</asp:HyperLink></li>
                    <asp:Repeater runat="server" ID="parentMenu" DataSourceID="mainSiteMap" EnableViewState="false">
                        <ItemTemplate>
                            <li>
                                <asp:HyperLink runat="server" id="parentLink" NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("Url") %>'><%# Eval("Title") %></asp:HyperLink>
                                <asp:Repeater ID="childMenu" runat="server" DataSource="<%# CType(Container.DataItem, SiteMapNode).ChildNodes %>">
                                    <HeaderTemplate>
                                        <ul>
                                    </HeaderTemplate>
                                    <ItemTemplate>
                                        <li>
                                            <asp:HyperLink runat="server" id="childLink" NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("Url") %>'><%# Eval("Title") %></asp:HyperLink></li>
                                    </ItemTemplate>
                                    <FooterTemplate>
                                        </ul>
                                    </FooterTemplate>
                                </asp:Repeater>
                            </li>
                        </ItemTemplate>
                    </asp:Repeater>
                </ul>
                <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="mainSiteMap" runat="server" ShowStartingNode="false" />
            </div>

 Private Sub parentMenu_ItemDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.RepeaterItemEventArgs) Handles parentMenu.ItemDataBound

        If e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.Item Or e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.AlternatingItem Then

            If CType(e.Item.DataItem, SiteMapNode).Title = ActiveMenuSelection Then
                ' find the html anchor and modify attributes to trigger CSS changes
            Else
                lnkHome.ID = "current"

            End If

        End If

    End Sub
    

What happens is I successfully match the ActiveMenuSelection property to the item_databound argument, but from there I am a little fuzzy on finding the specific control I want to modify. 

Has anyone ever tried something like this? 

I know that I could probably use an <asp:Menu /> control, but if there is a solution to the above, that would be better for my purposes.

Thanks in advance.

CC

hi,

if you find "parentLink" anchor tag you can used this way

HtmlAnchor parentLink = e.Item.FindControl("parentLink") as HtmlAncho;

now you can do any thing with this "parentLink"

if you want to find "childLink" in the nestad repeater you can first find child repeater then you can do same way as above

/smacks forehead

I think I was looking at it too long - thanks