Hi everyone,

I'm trying to use an ASP menu in conjunction with AJAX, so I need to be able to us the DynamicItemTempate to get the thing to run some javascript and not move to another page. The problem is, the way I assumed you would do this is by using <%# Container.DataItem.whatever %>, since the Container.DataItem points to the MenuItem in question - however it throws an error, since Text and NavigateUrl are not members of Object. Is there some way I can get the Text or anything else I want into the DynamicItemTemplate? (I assume there is, right? Otherwise it would be totally useless...)

        <asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server" Orientation="Horizontal" DataSourceID="xdsSitemap">
            <DataBindings>
                <asp:MenuItemBinding DataMember="section" Text="&nbsp;" ImageUrlField="img" />
                <asp:MenuItemBinding DataMember="page" TextField="name" />
            </DataBindings>
            <DynamicItemTemplate>
                <a href="javascript:goto(<%# Container.DataItem.NavigateUrl%> );"><%# Container.DataItem.Text %></a>
            </DynamicItemTemplate>
        </asp:Menu>

You should use the new simplified DataBinding syntax instead.

<%# Eval("NavigateUrl") %>

If you insist on the old fashioned databinding you should still be able to do:

<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "NavigateUrl") %>

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Danny

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Thanks heaps, that really helped!