menu adapter treating top-level menu items as links

Question

User-546006562 posted

We have a database-driven menu, where the URL field in the database is null for the top-level menu choices.

In the sample source code below, "Account Home" should not be a link -- it is the subject heading for links below it.

When I comment out the menu control adapter in the Browsers file, the top-level menu items are as they should be-- not links.

Any thoughts on how to fix this?
 

<div class="AspNet-Menu-Horizontal" id="ctl00_mnuUser">
        <ul class="AspNet-Menu">
            <li class="AspNet-Menu-WithChildren">
                <a href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$mnuUser','bAccount Home')" class="AspNet-Menu-Link">Account Home</a>
                <ul>
                    <li class="AspNet-Menu-Leaf"><a href="AccountSummary.aspx" class="AspNet-Menu-Link" title="Summary screen of active accounts">Account Summary</a></li>
                    <li class="AspNet-Menu-Leaf"><a href="TrustCoNews.aspx" class="AspNet-Menu-Link" title="Recent news for the Trust Company">
                            TrustCo News</a></li>
                </ul>
            </li>

Answer 1

User-1207404732 posted

Doesn't seem to me like the URL field is null.

Can you post more of your code ? your aspx page and your CSSMenuAdapter.cs should be fine.

 

 

Answer 2

User-538256727 posted

Have a look at the adapter code, it might become clear what going on [:D]

if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(item.NavigateUrl))
                        {
                            writer.WriteAttribute("href", Page.Server.HtmlEncode(menu.ResolveClientUrl(item.NavigateUrl)));
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            writer.WriteAttribute("href", Page.ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(menu, "b" +  item.ValuePath.Replace(menu.PathSeparator.ToString(), "\\"), true));
                        }

If you want different behaviour, just change the adapter. Cssfriendly is just an implementation. I disagree with it all the time ;-)