Frederik Vig – ASP.NET developer

8 Comments

1. David Green says:

   February 28, 2010 at 20:02

   Hi Frederik

   Thank you very much for your blog post. It has worked perfectly.
   The Container.Indent value in the IndentTemplate is very useful.

   Regards

   David Green
2. Deane says:

   March 12, 2010 at 09:51

   Nicely done. Very, very handy.
3. Alex Judd says:

   March 30, 2010 at 17:17

   Hi Frederik – Excellent again

   Container.Indent works nicely for nested levelled navigation – but any suggestions if you wanted to change the style using a similar method within the ItemTemplate to change the style on the first and last items?

   My guessed approach would be something like this (pseudo code)

   [Code Behind]

   if (Container.Position == 1 || Container.Position == Container.MaxCount) { …code here to return different class information for css }
4. Frederik Vig says:

   March 30, 2010 at 20:08

   Hi Alex
   Could you post the markup you’re going for?

   Frederik
5. Alex Judd says:

   March 31, 2010 at 18:24

   Hi Frederik

   Very proudly solved it on my own

   Here’s the code used, and basically I expose the ‘PagePeerOrder’ property from the CurrentPage (the one that you can set in the EPiSERVER Editor tool in the Advanced tab for the page), and use this to check whether the page is my first page (PagePeerOrder set to 100 the same as EPiSERVER does with the first page by default) or my last page (with PagePeerOrder set to 999 so that it will always be the last page).

   <li >

   ///
   /// Adds first and last classes to the list items
   ///
   ///
   /// Returns the css class in XHTML tag format
   ///
   /// Current level of navigation passed in using the Container.Index value
   /// The EPiSERVER Advanced Sort Index of the page
   protected string AddCssClassToPrimaryNavigationLi(int level, string sortIndex)
   {
   int mySortIndex;
   string myReturnValue;
   if (int.TryParse(sortIndex, out mySortIndex))
   {
   switch (mySortIndex)
   {
   case 100:
   return string.Format(“class=\”first\”");
   break;
   case 999:
   return string.Format(“class=\”last\”");
   break;
   default:
   myReturnValue = string.Empty;
   break;
   }
   }
   else
   {
   myReturnValue = string.Empty;
   }

   return myReturnValue;
   }

   … I’m sure there might be a nicer way to do it, but this works so should hopefully be a good reference for anyone else following Frederik’s great posts and my less great comments on them

   Alex
6. Alex Judd says:

   March 31, 2010 at 18:27

   Code was eaten by the page above so let’s try posting the .aspx code again in a pre tag

   .aspx code

       <li >
   

   .aspx.cs code

           ///
           /// Adds first and last classes to the list items
           ///
           ///
           /// Returns the css class in XHTML tag format
           ///
           /// Current level of navigation passed in using the Container.Index value
           /// The EPiSERVER Advanced Sort Index of the page
           protected string AddCssClassToPrimaryNavigationLi(int level, string sortIndex)
           {
               int mySortIndex;
               string myReturnValue;
               if (int.TryParse(sortIndex, out mySortIndex))
               {
                   switch (mySortIndex)
                   {
                       case 100:
                           return string.Format("class=\"first\"");
                           break;
                       case 999:
                           return string.Format("class=\"last\"");
                           break;
                       default:
                           myReturnValue = string.Empty;
                           break;
                   }
               }
               else
               {
                   myReturnValue = string.Empty;
               }
   
               return myReturnValue;
           }
   
7. Alex Judd says:

   March 31, 2010 at 18:29

   Sorry Frederik – messing up your blog! – here it is without the ‘less than, percent, hash’ opening tag and ‘percent, greater than’ end tags

   .aspx front code

   AddCssClassToPrimaryNavigationLi(Container.Indent, Container.CurrentPage.Property["PagePeerOrder"].ToWebString())
   
8. Alease Diga says:

   September 10, 2010 at 11:55

   Hi, i just discovered your blog, thanks for your post. I found it really interesting.