Hello,

My first post, so I hope this is the right section. I'm new to DNN too, so if this is an obvious one apologies.

I'm a C# and web UI developer, so having installed and set up the latest version of DNN I started making a custom skin. I wanted to have a separate menu as my sub menu, as opposed to a drop down, so after reading a few articles I managed to find I got what I wanted working with one glitch. When a sub menu item is selected the sub menu does not render as I have set the Level property to Child to avoid showing the root items. Here is my code:

                        ID="dnnNav"
                        ProviderName="DNNMenuNavigationProvider"
                        IndicateChildren="false"
                        ControlOrientation="Horizontal"
                        CSSControl="mainMenu"
                        PopulateNodesFromClient="false"
                        ExpandDepth="1" />

<dnn:nav runat="server">                        ID="dnnSubNav"
                        ProviderName="DNNMenuNavigationProvider"
                        IndicateChildren="false"
                        ControlOrientation="Horizontal"
                        CSSControl="subMenu"
                        Level="Child"                       
                        PopulateNodesFromClient="false"
                        ExpandDepth="1" />

Does anyone know how I can keep the sub menu on screen with a selected item if the selected item has no children. I understand why the menu is behaving as it is but obviously it is not the desired effect. Alternatively, is there anyother means of not showing the root items on a menu?

Thanks,

Michael

Take a look at one of the Minimal Extropy skins with Index Left Menu in the name. That has a left nav that shows the children, and does render the menu when a third level page is selected.

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, they actually use a disfferent menu control called dnn:LeftMenu which appears to have a few more useful properties on it. I'll give that a go... although it isn't strictly a left menu the principle is the same I suppose...

Ah, I missed that.  Does the "left menu" feature a horizontal orientation.

l years ago I used the Snapsis CSS Menu (snapsis.com) for an application similar to yours.  It worked just fine.

I havent used the new DNN Nav menu that way, so I'd have to do some digging to try it.

It doesn't seem to but it is just a modified Telerik PanelBar by the looks of it so I am writing a custom skin for it that will hopefully force the items into a horizontal view with a bit of CSS.

Got it working. The following CSS allows the left menu to display horizontal:

.RadPanelBar_Clarity .rpItem
{
    float: left !important;
}

Clarity being the name of my theme/skin. All seems a bit of a hack but it will do for now until I understand the workings of DNN a bit better.

DotNetNuke now includes wrapped versions of many Telerik controls.  I hadn't remembered that.  It's also possible to use the Telerik menu control, too, but I've never done that.