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ASPxMenu.Orientation Property

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

Namespace: DevExpress.Web

Assembly: DevExpress.Web.v20.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Web

Declaration

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

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.

Example

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

View Example

<%@ 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>
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