I'm using Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.0 to render a Menu control as an HTML list so I can style it using CSS. Here is the code I am using below
<asp:Menu ID="navlist" runat="server" Orientation="Horizontal"
SkipLinkText="" ClientIDMode="Static" DataSourceID="MenuSource"
MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="0" IncludeStyleBlock="False"
StaticDisplayLevels="2">
</asp:Menu>
This produces the following HTML
<!-- URL shortened -->
<script src="/WebResource.axd?...t=634066906994188146"type="text/javascript"></script>
<div id="navlist">
<ul>
<li><a href="link1.html">Link 1</a></li>
<li><a href="link2.html">Link 2</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
At first glance this looks like exactly what I wanted. However, if I open up WebResource.axd there is a whole bunch of javascript code related to the menu. Part of this code is applying it's own inline styles to the list. Using FireBug I can view the HTML markup after the javascript has executed and it looks something like this:
<div id="navlist" style="float: left;">
<ul class="level1 static" tabindex="0" style="position: relative; width: auto; float: left;" role="menubar">
<li role="menuitem" class="static" style="position: relative; float: left;">
<a href="link1.html" class="level2 static" tabindex="-1">Link 1</a>
</li><li role="menuitem" class="static" style="position: relative; float: left;">
<a href="link2.html" class="level2 static" tabindex="-1">Link 2</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
These inline styles ultimately affect the layout of my page. I have no need for any of the scripts in WebResource.axd. How can I prevent this script from being rendered in the final markup of the page?
You can tell the menu to NOT style itself if you want to just use the IncludeStyleBlock Attribute
By default its turned on "true"
<asp:Menu IncludeStyleBlock="False" />