how to set values other than text using the htmlhelpers in razor

[Gareth]

working with a MVC4 application, and trying to get the menu to render.  

I've tried the following code, which works fine:

 @(Html.Kendo().Menu()
           .Name("menu")
           .Items(items =>
                      {
                          items.Add().Text("Item 1");
                          items.Add().Text("Item 2");
                      }
           )
)

how can I set properties other than Text?  I would like to be able to reference events by the menu item ID, which I can't seem to set through the html Helpers.

[Lee]

I too would like this wisdom. I am new to this toolkit and razor and would love some enlightenment!

Kind Regards,


Lee

[xclirion]

Hi,

as far as i know different properties are joined together in Razor with a ".".

So this works: 

items.Add().Text("Home").Url("Home/About");

As you can see there's at least a property "Url" which contains the target of the menu entry. I don't know if you can specify the controller separately. For the standard routing you can use "controller/action".

Hope this helps,
Michael 

[Lee]

Thanks Michael,

I'll give that a go!


Lee.

[xclirion]

Hi Lee,

In the sample project I have seen, there seems at least one additional parameter "Enabled". 

items.Add().Text("News").Enabled(false);

Unfortunately the documentation for the ASP.net MVC Wrapper seems not to be ready / published.

Michael

[Samuel]

There is also a .Action, which works well for actions. The only issue I have with it is that it doesn't work quite the same way as the razor helper. Namely, you can't include the link text with the .Action - you have to use a separate .Text() for that.