Using Templates with the Menu Control

The Menu control supports templates. You can use templates to completely customize the appearance of the Menu control.

The Menu control supports the following two templates:

DynamicItemTemplate Applied to dynamic menu items.

StaticItemTemplate Applied to static menu items.

The page in Listing 22.17 uses both templates to display menu items. The templates display a count of child items for each menu item (see Figure 22.14).

Figure 22.14. Using templates with the Menu control.

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Listing 22.17. MenuTemplates.aspx

You do not need to create LinkButton controls in the templates. The content of the template ...

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