Hi friends,

I have faced a problem in programming ASP.Net, and I need your help.
I am using VS.Net 2003, and .Net 1.1.

Now the problem is, I need to generate a navigation bar (hyperlinks), for my application, but I have not found any method for generating and rendering it dynamically, except using
Response.Write(“<a href=… >”)

Is there any other method, better than this one?

Secondly even if I display the navigation bar in that method, I can not control the position of displaying that in a proper way. To do this I used a lot of <br /> in statement. Like
Response.Write(“<br /><br /> … <br />”)
Response.Write(“<a href=… >”)

It is not a method of preference, especially when you want to form the layout of the whole page using table. And with this method the position may vary with the change of resolution or browser, I suppose.
So is there any method to display the dynamically created hyperlinks in an empty cell of a table?
And I don’t know whether ‘Response.Write’ statements can be put into ‘placeholders’. But in ‘placeholder’ hyperlinks becomes plane text, I have seen.

If not, could you suggest some better way to do this?
How this is done in professional web pages?

Any suggestion will be of great help.
Thanks.


Aritra Mukherjee,
CS-4th Year,
MSIT-Kolkata.

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Aritra Mukherjee,
CS-4th Year,
MSIT-Kolkata.

You could create a user control that uses the System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter to achieve this. I am not saying this is any better then Response.Write as you will still use alot of lines, for example to write out a <td> tag you would do something like:

hwriter.WriteBeginTag("td")
                        hwriter.WriteAttribute("width", "125")
                        hwriter.WriteAttribute("style", "background-color: #DDDDDD;font-family:Verdana, Times New Roman, Tahoma;font-size:12px;color: #000066;")
                        hwriter.WriteAttribute("valign", "top")
                        hwriter.Write(HtmlTextWriter.TagRightChar)

this will produce this when it is rendered:
<td width=125 style="background-color: #DDDDDD;font-family:Verdana, Times New Roman, Tahoma;font-size:12px;color: #000066;" valign=top>

So, essentially, you would build your entire layout inside of that Writer and then you would make this call:
MyBase.Render(hwriter) inside of the page render event.

hth.

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thanks for the help.
but how could i mention,where to render that control ??
how will this work if i want to render that control, at run time, in a cell of a pre-craeted table?
can this be done ?

Aritra Mukherjee,
CS-4th Year,
MSIT-Kolkata.

Override the page render event in the usercontrol.

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Something like this:

    Protected Overrides Sub Render(ByVal hwriter As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter)
        MyBase.Render(hwriter)
    End Sub

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Thanks alot, Mr. dparsons.

Aritra Mukherjee,
CS-4th Year,
MSIT-Kolkata.