ASPxMenu.Orientation Property

Gets or sets the direction in which to render the menu.

Assembly: DevExpress.Web.v18.2.dll

Declaration

C#
VB.NET

[DefaultValue(Orientation.Horizontal)]
public Orientation Orientation { get; set; }

<DefaultValue(Orientation.Horizontal)>
Public Property Orientation As Orientation

Property Value

Type	Default	Description
Orientation	Horizontal	One of the Orientation enumeration values.

Remarks

Use the Orientation property to specify the direction in which to render the menu control.

On the client side, you can control the menu orientation using the ASPxClientMenu.GetOrientation and ASPxClientMenu.SetOrientation methods.

Examples

This sample illustrates how to keep the NavigateUrl of the item if there's a control in the ItemTemplateContainer of the ASPxMenu.

NOTE

A complete sample project is available at https://github.com/DevExpress-Examples/how-to-keep-the-navigateurl-of-the-item-in-the-templated-aspxmenu-e1202

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="WebApplication6._Default" %>

<%@ register Assembly="DevExpress.Web.ASPxEditors.v8.3" Namespace="DevExpress.Web.ASPxEditors"
    TagPrefix="dxe" %>

<%@ register Assembly="DevExpress.Web.v8.3" Namespace="DevExpress.Web.ASPxMenu" TagPrefix="dxm" %>
<%@ register Assembly="DevExpress.Web.v8.3" Namespace="DevExpress.Web.ASPxSiteMapControl"
    TagPrefix="dxsm" %>

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

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <dxm:aspxmenu ID="ASPxMenu1" runat="server" DataSourceID="ASPxSiteMapDataSource1"
            Orientation="Vertical" OnDataBound="ASPxMenu1_DataBound">
            <itemtemplate>
                <dxe:aspxlabel ID="ASPxLabel1" runat="server" Text='<%#Container.Item.Text %>' Width="100px" Height="20px" Cursor="pointer">
                </dxe:aspxlabel>
            </itemtemplate>
        </dxm:aspxmenu>
        <dxsm:aspxsitemapdatasource ID="ASPxSiteMapDataSource1" runat="server" SiteMapFileName="~/web.sitemap" />

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

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using DevExpress.Web.ASPxEditors;

namespace WebApplication6
{
    public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {

        }

        protected void ASPxMenu1_DataBound(object sender, EventArgs e) {
            string url = "";
            for (int i = 0; i < ASPxMenu1.Items.Count; i++) {

                url = ASPxMenu1.Items[i].NavigateUrl;
                ASPxLabel lab = ASPxMenu1.Items[i].FindControl("ASPxLabel1") as ASPxLabel;
                if (lab != null) {
                   lab.ClientSideEvents.Click = "function(s,e){window.location = '" + url + "';}";

                   switch (lab.Text) {
                       case "Yahoo!": {
                               lab.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.LightPink;
                               break;
                        }
                       case "MSN": {
                               lab.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.LightSkyBlue;
                               break;
                        }
                       case "Google": {
                               lab.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.LightSeaGreen;
                               break;
                        }
                  }
              }
          }
      }


  }
}

<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="WebApplication6._Default" %>

<%@ register Assembly="DevExpress.Web.ASPxEditors.v8.3" Namespace="DevExpress.Web.ASPxEditors"
    TagPrefix="dxe" %>

<%@ register Assembly="DevExpress.Web.v8.3" Namespace="DevExpress.Web.ASPxMenu" TagPrefix="dxm" %>
<%@ register Assembly="DevExpress.Web.v8.3" Namespace="DevExpress.Web.ASPxSiteMapControl"
    TagPrefix="dxsm" %>

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

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <dxm:aspxmenu ID="ASPxMenu1" runat="server" DataSourceID="ASPxSiteMapDataSource1"
            Orientation="Vertical" OnDataBound="ASPxMenu1_DataBound">
            <itemtemplate>
                <dxe:aspxlabel ID="ASPxLabel1" runat="server" Text='<%#Container.Item.Text%>' Width="100px" Height="20px" Cursor="pointer">
                </dxe:aspxlabel>
            </itemtemplate>
        </dxm:aspxmenu>
        <dxsm:aspxsitemapdatasource ID="ASPxSiteMapDataSource1" runat="server" SiteMapFileName="~/web.sitemap" />

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

Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports System
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Configuration
Imports System.Collections
Imports System.Web
Imports System.Web.Security
Imports System.Web.UI
Imports System.Web.UI.WebControls
Imports System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts
Imports System.Web.UI.HtmlControls
Imports DevExpress.Web.ASPxEditors

Namespace WebApplication6
    Partial Public Class _Default
        Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
        Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)

        End Sub

        Protected Sub ASPxMenu1_DataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
            Dim url As String = ""
            For i As Integer = 0 To ASPxMenu1.Items.Count - 1

                url = ASPxMenu1.Items(i).NavigateUrl
                Dim lab As ASPxLabel = TryCast(ASPxMenu1.Items(i).FindControl("ASPxLabel1"), ASPxLabel)
                If lab IsNot Nothing Then
                   lab.ClientSideEvents.Click = "function(s,e){window.location = '" & url & "';}"

                   Select Case lab.Text
                       Case "Yahoo!"
                               lab.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.LightPink
                               Exit Select
                       Case "MSN"
                               lab.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.LightSkyBlue
                               Exit Select
                       Case "Google"
                               lab.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.LightSeaGreen
                               Exit Select
                   End Select
                End If
            Next i
        End Sub


    End Class
End Namespace

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ASPxMenu.Orientation Property

Declaration

Property Value

Remarks

Examples

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