Hi Guys

I have a situation where im trying to configure a solpartmenu to look right within my site.  i have managed to apply a few simple CSS styles to the menu for font color etc, but now i want to apply some attributes to the control for a bit more of a high level customisation.

Please take a look at my site: http://www.blissbloomsbouquets.com.au and note the following problems

Here is my menu control in my skin (ignore the spaces around the "dnn:")

< dnn : SOLPARTMENU usearrows="false" IconWidth="0" menuitemheight="100" runat="server" id="dnnSOLPARTMENU" />

Of the 3 custom values only the usearrows value seems to do anything.  the arrow indicating that there is a sub menu does not appear and thats good.  however iconwidth and menuheight both dont seem to do anything.  I have tried heaps of other attributes from the skinning guide that relate to the solpartmenu but only a very small few actually seem to work.

Is anyone able to help explain why these values dont seem to do anyting?  am i doing something wrong?

Cheers in advance

Quinten, also don't forget that you have a much broader range of options you can tweak by modifying the CSS. I usually have a CSS file included with my skin that carries the modified classes for Solpart. If you locate the default.css file, you will find the SolPart class entries listed below:

/* Main Menu */
.MainMenu_MenuContainer {
 background-color: transparent;
 margin-left: 32px;
 background-image: url(menu_background.gif);
}
.MainMenu_MenuBar {
 cursor: pointer;
 cursor: hand;
}

etc. and so on...

Through some creative CSS coding, you can pull off some pretty wild appearances, however Solpart is not without it's share of limitations, but this should at least put you on the right path. Also, should you decide to edit the default.css directly (which I STRONGLY reccomend against) don't forget to back it up first.

Good Luck!

SB

Dear wedwarback

Do you mean that wonderfull breadcrumb arrow... that you must set in the uploading .xml file (html-uploading skin)
You can set it to true or false...

<Object>
  <Token>[SOLPARTMENU]</Token>
    <Settings>
      <Setting>
        <Name>userootbreadcrumbarrow</Name>
        <Value>true</Value>
      </Setting>
      <Setting>
        <Name>usesubmenubreadcrumbarrow</Name>
        <Value>true</Value>
      </Setting>
    </Settings>
</Object>

or do you mean that wonderfull arrow to indicates the submenu? You can set it also to true or false.

<Setting>
  <Name>usearrows</Name>
  <Value>true</Value>
</Setting>