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5/16/2006 5:13 AM
 
Peter Affentranger

www.anp.ch
Joined: 11/25/2005
Posts: 4
I'm am trying to create a vertical SOLPARTMENU that should have different styles for the root menu items and the sub menu items.
Root menu items should have white text with grey background, sub menu items should have black text with white background.
In skin.xml the definitions are as follows
  • menuitemcssclass = MainMenu_MenuItem
  • rootmenuitemcssclass = MainMenu_RootMenuItem
In my opinion this should enable the definition of different styles for the root and the sub menu items in skin.css. But the MainMenu_MenuItem style definition is used for all menu items.
Can anybody help me to solve this problem?
Thanks a lot!
 
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5/18/2006 1:14 AM
 
Nina M


www.berrydigital.com.au
Joined: 1/23/2004
Posts: 1961

I have a skin that uses the ACTIVE clasess that's what you need to use to get the effect you're looking for. You can download from my site to look at - and yes I know what you mean by your opinion.. DNN sometimes has this knack of making is think differently to what we normally would be doing.

There is documentation about this in the skinning documentaion pdf file.

However, a small word of warning, the behaviour in FireFox is not the same - so if you're using transparency it may not be recognised in certain areas.

Nina Meiers

Nina Meiers My Little Website
If it's on DNN, I fix, build, deploy, support,skin, host, design, consult, implement, integrate and done since 2003.
Who am I? Just a city chic, having a crack at organic berry farming.. and creating awesome websites.
 
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5/19/2006 4:17 AM
 
Peter Affentranger

www.anp.ch
Joined: 11/25/2005
Posts: 4

Thank you for your support, Nina!

I tried the various ACTIVE, SELECTED and BREADCRUMB classes and they all work fine. But what I can't get to work is, that the root and sub menu items have different styles in their initial state.

These are my findings, which attributes of SOLPARTMENU controls the different states of menu items.

SOLPARTMENU attribute Controled menu item state
menuitemcssclass initial state of root and sub menu items
rootmenuitemcssclass controls no state
rootmenuitemactivecssclass root menu item when active
rootmenuitemselectedcssclass root menu item when hovering it
rootmenuitembreadcrumbcssclass root menu item when in the breadcrumb trail
submenuitemactivecssclass sub menu item when active
submenuitemselectedcssclass sub menu item when hovering it
submenuitembreadcrumbcssclass sub menu item when in the breadcrumb trail

Do you have any idea why the rootmenuitemcssclass attribute is not working?

You wrote that you have a skin that does what I want. I can't find it on your website. Do you have me a url?

Thanks a lot!

Peter Affentranger
 
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5/19/2006 5:45 AM
 
Nina M


www.berrydigital.com.au
Joined: 1/23/2004
Posts: 1961

My DesignAway Skin with the vertical menu has the active classes in it - you can see in the code how it works.

I'm doing some more updates on my site to make this information clearer - sorry about that.

Nina Meiers

Nina Meiers My Little Website
If it's on DNN, I fix, build, deploy, support,skin, host, design, consult, implement, integrate and done since 2003.
Who am I? Just a city chic, having a crack at organic berry farming.. and creating awesome websites.
 
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5/19/2006 1:48 PM
 
Douglas Steen

www.drsteen.com
Joined: 5/9/2006
Posts: 7
I've discovered that you can modify the styles using the cascading aspect of CSS and the "MainMenu_SubMenu" class.  For example,

== CSS FILE ==
.MainMenu_MenuItem
{
  background-color: Gray;
  color: White;
}

.MainMenu_SubMenu .MainMenu_MenuItem
{
  background-color: White;
  color: Black;
}
== CSS FILE ==

That seems to have worked for me.  Hope it helps.
 
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