How to get HTML output of System.Web.UI.WebControls.Menu in CodeBehind?

Question

I have a solution containing an ASP.NET WebForms Website and a MVC 5 Application. The WebForms project contains a MenuControl for main navigation. I need to have the same menu in the MVC Project as well.

I tried to get the html of the menu using the solution mentioned at https://stackoverflow.com/a/58931/1300140 without any success. It is throwing an error saying "Control 'ctl03' of type 'Menu' must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server"

How can I get the HTML output of the Menu? Also, is there any better way to achieve what I am trying to do?

Badiparmagi · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-13 08:05:25Z

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First create a div (or any other asp.net control) with tag runat=server so you can reach it from code behind.

then a little jquery and done.

html:

 <div id="myDiv" runat="server"></div>

jquery:

$(document).ready(function () {
       $("myDiv").html($("#yourMenuIdHere").html());
    });

code behind:

var divContent= myDiv.InnerHtml;

so you got everything in divContent variable. you can hide your myDiv on pageload if you want. let me know if this helps.

answered Oct 13, 2016 at 8:05

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Libin TK Over a year ago

Thanks for you answer, I was trying to do this as a last resort as I will have to wait for a request/postback.

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