Underline a character in the item text

22 Mar 20222 minutes to read

To underline a particular character in a text, it can be handled in beforeItemRender event by adding <u> tag in between the text and given as innerHTML in li rendering.

CSHTML

<div id="contextmenutarget">Right click/Touch hold to open the ContextMenu </div>
@Html.EJS().ContextMenu("contextmenu").Target("#contextmenutarget").Items((IEnumerable<object>)ViewBag.menuItems).BeforeItemRender("beforeItemRender").Render()

<script>

    function beforeItemRender(args) {
        if (args.item.text === "Copy") {
            args.element.innerHTML = '<u>C</u>opy';
       }
    }

</script>

<style>

#contextmenutarget {
    border: 1px dashed;
    height: 250px;
    padding: 10px;
    position: relative;
    text-align: center;
    color: gray;
    line-height: 17;
    font-size: 14px;
}

</style>

Underline.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;

namespace WebApplication1.Controllers
{
    public class ContextMenuController : Controller
    {
        public ActionResult Underline()
        {
            List<object> menuItems = new List<object>();
            menuItems.Add(new
            {
                text = "Cut"
            });
            menuItems.Add(new
            {
                text = "Copy"
            });
            menuItems.Add(new
            {
                text = "Paste"
            });
            ViewBag.menuItems = menuItems;
            return View();
        }
    }
}