Hi, is there anyway which I could disable the DNN menu programmtically? like any visible functionality to allow me to switch it on / off.. ?

You could wrap the menu in a named div and set visibility or display mode to hide it. You can do that programmatically or with javascript or jquery.

Hi Joseph! Cool! that's what I need, may i know how do I do that?

Sure, in your skin you should place a set of div tags around the part of the html that you want to control. You can use a name, and ID, or a class to make the div unique.

Then you write a javascript or jQuery function that is fired on whatever event that you need to use to enable/disable the code. Your javascript/jQuery code could set the display attribute of the div to none to turn it off.

Hi Joseph, could you provide me with a little more details? I tried doing it at my skin source page. but it didnt work
<dnn:artmenu id="ArtMenu1" showhiddentabs="False" showadmintabs="True" showdeletedtabs="False" showlogintab="True" showusertab="True" runat="server">


<dnn:artmenu id="ArtMenu1" showhiddentabs="False" showadmintabs="True" showdeletedtabs="False" showlogintab="True" showusertab="True" runat="server">dnn:ARTMENU ID="ArtMenu1" ShowHiddenTabs="False" ShowAdminTabs="True" ShowDeletedTabs="False" ShowLoginTab="True" ShowUserTab="True" runat="server" /><div id="TopPane" visible="false" runat="server">

Sure.  In your skin do something like this:


     < div class="myHide" >

            < dnn:ARTMENU ID="ArtMenu1" ShowHiddenTabs="False" ShowAdminTabs="True" ShowDeletedTabs="False"
                                             ShowLoginTab="True" ShowUserTab="True" runat="server" />

     < / div >


Then, in your CSS you will have:

     .myHide{display:none}


Then your jQuery will be something like this:  $(".myHide").css("display", "inline");

You will need to construct the code that fires this jQuery at the right time.