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mfnc
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31 Mar 2008 3:53 PM  

I am following the skinning Video #7 (How_to_create_a_skin_video7.swf) and have been successful up until the point where it talks about changing the css class .MainMenu_MenuContainer. I am using DNN 04.08.02 and the class in the DNN_Blue skin is named .main_dnnmenu_container. Making the changes to this class do not reflect the changes on the site. Nor does it have an effect if I change the class name to .MainMenu_MenuContainer

I'm fairly new to DNN and I'm sure there is something very obvious I'm missing

Any help would be appreciated.

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jncraig
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31 Mar 2008 8:26 PM  
That tutorial is a couple of years old, so I'm sure that some of the details are just a bit out of date.  So, let's take a look at the skin to see what is there ...

Looking at the Horizontal Menu - Full Width skin, I see this ...


< TD width="100%" vAlign="middle" align="left" nowrap >

< dnn:NAV runat="server"
                  id="dnnNAV"
                  ProviderName="DNNMenuNavigationProvider"
                  CSSControl="main_dnnmenu_bar"
                  CSSContainerRoot="main_dnnmenu_container"
                  CSSNode="main_dnnmenu_item"
                  CSSNodeRoot="main_dnnmenu_rootitem"
                  CSSIcon="main_dnnmenu_icon"
                  CSSContainerSub="main_dnnmenu_submenu"
                  CSSBreak="main_dnnmenu_break"
                  CSSNodeHover="main_dnnmenu_itemhover"
                  NodeLeftHTMLBreadCrumbRoot=""*"                                                                          BORDER="0"                  
                                                                         src="breadcrumb.gif"/ >"
 / >
< /TD>


Now, without knowing too much, it appears that most of the "CSS" named items refer to CSS classes that style different parts of the menu.

Coupling that with Troubleshooting DotNetNuke Skins, the tutorial that shows you how to user the Web Developer's Toolbar, you can easily create a page with the Blue skin and track down the various styles.  For example, main_dnnmenu_bar has a background color that will color the menu bar.  Others style the text, etc.

I'm still looking for some documentation ...
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leesykes
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07 Apr 2008 2:33 AM  
Hello,

Yes documentation is short on the new NAV menu that is included with the latest releases of DotNetNuke. - I will be addressing this issue however and covering some details to help you style this menu.

- However the SolPart menu that we style in the tutorial is still included with DotNetNuke, so if you look at the code that is included with the video tutorials, you can copy the code from the skin.xml and skin.css files to setup the Solpart menu.

Thanks,
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mfnc
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07 Apr 2008 2:38 PM  

ok, thanks Lee. I'll take that route for now. Also, is it possible to change the arrow image next to each of the menu items?

Thanks
leesykes
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08 Apr 2008 2:58 AM  
If you look at the skinning pdf that comes with the DotNetNuke docs zip file there is a section at the end which details:

useskinpatharrowimages


Use arrow images located in
the skin and not those in the
/images folder {true|false}

- default is false - so you could set these properties in the skin.xml file

- or if you look in the images folder in your DotNetNuke installation files, have a look for images beginning with menu_
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