Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

[Lost User]

Depends on how you put the 'href' within that string. As long as the correct html is rendered, you shouldn't have any problem. Can you care to show me your entire code that renders the output?

[Wheels012]

<ul>
<li id="liBullet" />
<li><a href="http://bing.com">This</a> takes you to Bing</li>
</ul>

C#

protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem liBullet;
this.liBullet.Attributes.Add(BULLETTHREELBHL);
private const string BULLETTHREELBHL = "Employee earnings can be submitted through the <a href=\"/EECHG/FW_DEFAULT.ASPX?Serviceid=EECHG&title=Employee+Changes\">Employee Changes</a> service by a plan administrator with access to update employee changes.";

WHEELS

[Lost User]

Attributes.Add() method takes 2 arguments, this code shouldn't compile at all. You should ideally be using ListItem.Text property to render your output.

[Wheels012]

When I dynamically populate the .text property, I get an Object reference not set to an instance of an object error. System.NullReferenceException.

[Lost User]

Can you show the code here?

[Wheels012]

protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem liBullets;

private const string BULLETTHREELBHL = "Employee earnings can be submitted through the <a href=\"/EECHG/FW_DEFAULT.ASPX?Serviceid=EECHG&title=Employee+Changes\">Employee Changes</a> service by a plan administrator with access to update employee changes.";

this.liBullets.Text = BULLETTHREELBHL;

<ul>
<li id="liBullets" />
<li>To Access Google, click <a href="http://google.com">here</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bing.com">This</a> takes you to Bing</li>
</ul>

[Lost User]

so, does this throw some exception or it renders the text with the tags ?

[Wheels012]

I have to declare the* id, and protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem liBullets; is incorrect. That appears to be reserved for drop-down or list boxes. I'm not sure what type the

• is to be decalred as.

[Lost User]

You should have told this earlier, try this:

System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl liBullet = new System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl("li");

[Wheels012]

What property do I use in liBullet? There doesn't seem to be a text property, and innertext didn't work.

[Lost User]

innerText should work, what do you mean by didn't work? you mean nothing was rendered?

[Wheels012]

The bullet rendered, but nothing else.

[Lost User]

Try other alternatives suggested in this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6142393/custom-control-asp-net-unordered-list-with-link-inside-lis-control[^]

[Wheels012]

Thanks for the help. We'll keeping working on it after the weekend.