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

[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.