Changing the BackColor of an ASP MenuItem programmatically?
I"m using VB.Net and I have a master page that contains an asp Menu control that contains 7 parent items. What I'm trying to do in the code-behind file is change the backcolor of each parent item except 1 (which is a "Login" menuItem). I have a For Loop that disables each menu item until the user has successfully logged in, however, I want to change the backcolor also to visually let the user know they are or are not logged in. How can I do this? My code is below.
Private Sub DisableMenu()
Try
For Each mnu As MenuItem In Menu1.Items
If mnu.Value = "mnuLogin" Then
Else
'Change the BackColor for each Parent Item
mnu.Enabled = False
End If
Next
Catch ex As Exception
lblMessage.Text = dbIO.DisplayError("DisableMenu()", "SiteMP", ex.Message)
End Try
End Sub
Have a look at the options posted here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/705440/asp-net-menuitem-individual-styles
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I think I'll try another route altogether. Thanks for the input though! You can close this quesiton.
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MenuItem does not have a BackColor property, but you can use the DrawItem Event to do it
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.menuitem.drawitem.aspx#Y300