I have a request from a client who has a HORIZONTAL MENU that they would like to be able to setup so that each vertical dropdown can be configured with its own background color.

Something like 

MENU1 - MENU2 - MENU3

RED         BLUE       GREEN
RED         BLUE       GREEN
RED         BLUE       GREEN

Anyone got any thoughts on how to handle this sort of thing

Cheers

Westa

not a great answer - anyone have any better idea on how to make the menu dropdowns different colors.

Westa

This is an extremely common issue. 

You can do it in Solpart, BUT you need to implement a different instance of the menu for EACH tab, give it a separate "id=" AND use the "StartTabId=" property to instantiate each menu item.  THEN in the CSS you can style each item any way you want to and achieve this result.  It is long, and laborious, but can be done.   See the skinning documentation for it and there is a narrative from one who did it here:  Click Here

John Henning blogged about using the Nav menu to accomplish an image based menu system that could be used for this in his Blog.

You can also do it with the Snapsis CSSNavMenu from Snapsis.com

There are ways to do it, but the skins is then NOT "portable" without modifications to the elements and properties involved.  So, once you achieve it, it is a "one site" skin and must be modified for EACH specific site you want to use it on.  Good news is that isn't near as hard as learning to do it.

clay