We need to implement two solpartmenu, a [SOLPARTMENU:1] which serves the root links plus the first child level on the top of the page horizontically, and a [SOLPATMENU:2] which serves a vertical list of child links for a chosen page (if this page has any child links). If a page is chosen but has no child pages, the area of the second menu simply should be blank.

I attached an example for better understanding both the structure but also the design (borders, arrows etc.) of the submenu:

Implementing two solpartmenus actually did not seem a problem and the first top level solpartmenu works fine and is successfully customized. Anyways with the [SOLPATMENU:2] we face some issues:

1. If a page does not have any sub-pages/childs and so the second solpartmenu is empty, in Firefox the DIV including the second solpartmenu is not shown as empty (white space), but instead the page body is expanded to the left and so the layout is destroyed.


2. If a page name is longer than the 200px width reserved for the second solpartmenu it destroys the layout (instead of breaking down links which are too long into the next line).


3. If setting forcefullmenulist:true for the SOLPARTMENU:2 to show child links and child-child links, there are different issues:
   
   
   
   1. Firefox: Does overlap all single menu entries instead of showing one after the other . Using float:left and clear:both for a menu entry fixes this, but then child-child links are not shown intended anymore but are displayed as if they were on the same level like their parent links.
   
   
   2. IE: Shows everything fine except the fact that border of child-child links are longer to the right than borders of their parent links because child-child links are intended.
   
   


4. If setting forcefullmenulist:false for the SOLPARTMENU:2 in both browsers the menu entries are show fine, but we cannot customize them; all our custom CSS formats (which we assign via the skin.xml) does not seem to apply.

Does anyone has a working example which we could customize for our needs?

Hi suwandy,

thanks for the reply. The PDF on your page describes how to add the Skinobject into the ASCX file. We are using HTML files with XML files for the skinobjects, so could you explain how to do it that way?

Thanks

Note SolPart has been depreciated and most people are moving on to NavMenu2 and other menus.

Thanks....