menu doesn't escape ampersands

[SelAromDotNet]

I'm having trouble with the rad menu in the latest sitefinity (3.5 sp1) where the links are not correctly escaping the ampersand (&) symbols in my link text. Take a look here: http://www.mcallen.net/golf/home.aspx. the menu up at the top under driving range (Fees & Memberships) and Contact Us (Maps & Directions) have ampersands, but they are not escaped to & by the menu. I tried manually chaning the link text and putting the full escaped text myself, but it still shows up as &.

can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

thanks!

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi SelArom,

This is by design - the text of the menu items is not html encoded. The same behavior can be observed by the built-in ASP.NET menu control and the HyperLink control.

You should replace the"&" in the text of the items with "&":

foreach (RadMenuItem item in RadMenu1.GetAllItems())
{
   item.Text = item.Text.Replace("&", "&");
}

Regards,
Albert
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[SelAromDotNet]

thank you for your prompt reply! is there a reason this doesn't happen by default?

[SelAromDotNet]

wait, this isn't working. I'm assuming that this code goes in the page_load method? I've done this, but the text is still coming out unescaped...

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello SelArom,

Perhaps the menu is populated later than Page_Load. You can try setting the text later - during Page_PreRender for example.

Regards,
Albert
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[SelAromDotNet]

oops my mistake for some reason I put it in preinit. not sure how that happened! I moved it to page load and now it works fine, thanks!

any plans to make this the default behavior?

thanks again!