Tricky one regarding Menu control and SiteMap

[J. Jespersen]

Hi people,

I'm trying to build a menu i asp.net 2.0 (RC) using the Menu control and an
XmlSiteMapProvider.
I want all letters of my menuitems to be capitalized, but i want the first
letter in every menuitem to be in a larger font.

Any ideas, clues, pointers?

J. Jespersen
Denmark

ps. Example illustration what i want: http://www.netkoder.dk/menuitem.jpg

 

[clintonG]

<span style="font-size: whatever;">M</span>ENU ITEM

Won't that work?


<%= Clinton Gallagher
METROmilwaukee (sm) "A Regional Information Service"
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://metromilwaukee.com/
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/

 

[J. Jespersen]

After some fiddling i got this to work, albeit not as elegant as I would
like:

<siteMapNode url="default.aspx" title="&lt;span style='font: 12px
Verdana;'>M&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font: 9px Verdana;'&gt;ENU
ITEM&lt;/span&gt;" description="Go to main page">

But thanks. You got me in the right direction. So far... ;-)

J.Jespersen
Denmark

 

[J. Jespersen]

Hi again,

Got it solved in a different way. But thanks for input anyways. Absolutely.


In my .aspx

<asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource1">
<StaticItemTemplate>
<%# formatMenuItem(Eval("Text"))%>
</StaticItemTemplate>
</asp:Menu>

In my .aspx.vb


Public Function formatMenuItem(ByVal itemText As String) As String
Return UCase("<span style=""font:14px Verdana"">" & Left(itemText, 1) &
"</span><span style=""font:9px Verdana"">" & Right(itemText,
(Len(itemText) - 1)) & "</span>")
End Function

....this way, I won't need to make a mess of my .Sitemap file. ;-)

Again, thanks.

J.Jespersen
Denmark

 

[clintonG]

Yea I read your other post. Much more elegant and thanks for being
considerate and posting what you worked out.

<%= Clinton Gallagher