Question

I’m using Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.0 to render a Menu control as an HTML list so I can style it using CSS. Here is the code I am using below

<asp:Menu ID="navlist" runat="server" Orientation="Horizontal"
SkipLinkText="" ClientIDMode="Static" DataSourceID="MenuSource" 
MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="0" IncludeStyleBlock="False" 
StaticDisplayLevels="2">
</asp:Menu>

This produces the following HTML

<!-- URL shortened -->
<script src="/WebResource.axd?...t=634066906994188146"type="text/javascript"></script>

<div id="navlist">
    <ul>
        <li><a href="link1.html">Link 1</a></li>
        <li><a href="link2.html">Link 2</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>

At first glance this looks like exactly what I wanted. However, if I open up WebResource.axd there is a whole bunch of javascript code related to the menu. Part of this code is applying it’s own inline styles to the list. Using FireBug I can view the HTML markup after the javascript has executed and it looks something like this:

<div id="navlist" style="float: left;">
    <ul class="level1 static" tabindex="0" style="position: relative; width: auto; float: left;" role="menubar">
        <li role="menuitem" class="static" style="position: relative; float: left;">
            <a href="link1.html" class="level2 static" tabindex="-1">Link 1</a>
        </li><li role="menuitem" class="static" style="position: relative; float: left;">
            <a href="link2.html" class="level2 static" tabindex="-1">Link 2</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>

These inline styles ultimately affect the layout of my page. I have no need for any of the scripts in WebResource.axd. How can I prevent this script from being rendered in the final markup of the page?

Answer 1

You can’t do much to change the out-of-the-box functionality of the Menu control. However, you could either create your own control or use the CSS Control Adapter Toolkit.