CSS menu change in Asp.net

[mark_me]

Hi, I am having problems with using css in asp.net. I was a php programmer about 3 yrs back, jumped into C# about 2 yrs back but worked with windows applications. Now i wish to work in asp.net. I have good C# knowledge, am using an asp.net book too but this problem, wasn't able to find any help. sorry, if my question is stupid... Actually, i remember in php, using a template on each page and for each page changin colors manually to show selected menu. With asp.net and master pages, i have used CSS to create the master page but changing hyperlink (menu) color is being problematic. Is it a good idea to use CSS in asp.net? Anyways, my question is if i have a css element selectedMenu. how would i apply it to menu items on each page. menu again is css generated, used on master page... Please provide help thanx in advance

[Christian Graus]

mark_me wrote:

Is it a good idea to use CSS in asp.net?

Absolutely. ASP.NET, like PHP, is an engine for generating HTML, javascript and CSS ( what else could it be ? ). Therefore, it would be worthless if it had no support for a central platform of web development.

mark_me wrote:

Anyways, my question is if i have a css element selectedMenu. how would i apply it to menu items on each page. menu again is css generated, used on master page...

Ultimately, if you're using css and creating a menu, this is a html/general web development issue. There's nothing in ASP.NET that could possibly hope to change how a browser reads css, or what it does with it. So, your best starting point is to look at the script being emitted, and try to work out what's missing, or in the wrong place, or whatever. Then work backwards from there, and work out why the way you're using ASP.NET is not creating the result you expect.

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

[mark_me]

hi, thankyou for replying but i want to re-iterate my question. In php, you would make every page. For home page, you will use css element selectedMenu for homelink, in product page you will use selectedMenu for Product, similarly for pageN you will have PageN set to selectedMenu. That way, a user will know which page he is viewing. Inshort, every page is kinda redesigned in php. In asp.net, you will have one template, the master... with menu in master, you can have multiple pages but how would you set css property to selectedMenu for page Product programmatically, again how would u set it to pageN programatically. Will i have to use page.Load. Again, thanks for replying.

[Christian Graus]

mark_me wrote:

Will i have to use page.Load.

Well, plainly not. You can use the prerender event, and that's often a better idea, because it fires after events. What you would do, is write code to change the classes of your menu items, based on what page is selected. The way I'd do this, is write a menu class that uses a session variable to know which item to show as selected, then each page sets the right value. Another reason to use prerender, so you have time to set that value first.

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

[mark_me]

Thankyou