.aspx front code

AddCssClassToPrimaryNavigationLi(Container.Indent, Container.CurrentPage.Property["PagePeerOrder"].ToWebString())

.aspx code

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.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;
        }

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

Frederik

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 }

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