Hi there,

We are creating DNN skins that use the DNN navigation skin object to generate menu's... these skins are created using the HTML skinning method, which then get parsed into ascx.

Now here's the issue : we want to output the menus using unordered lists, and with the Navigation Provider its possible to use custom attributes to pass the RenderMode parameter through, although these AFAIK can only be done via the ASCX files directly... (as there is no equivalent in the objects method in html skins)...

So what I have done is modified the nav base classes and navigation provider to accept the "RenderMode" property through the object tag in html skins for example:

          <object id="dnnNav2" codetype="dotnetnuke/server" codebase="NAV" >
              <param name="ProviderName" value="DNNMenuNavigationProvider" />
              <param name="ControlOrientation" value="Vertical" />
              <param name="Level" value="Child" />
              <param name="CSSNodeRoot" value="sub_dnnmenu_rootitem" />
              <param name="CSSNodeHoverRoot" value="sub_dnnmenu_rootitem_hover" />
              <param name="CSSNodeSelectedRoot" value="sub_dnnmenu_rootitem_selected" />
              <param name="CSSBreadCrumbRoot" value="sub_dnnmenu_rootitem_selected" />
              <param name="CSSContainerSub" value="sub_dnnmenu_submenu" />
              <param name="CSSNodeHoverSub" value="sub_dnnmenu_itemhover" />
              <param name="CSSNodeSelectedSub" value="sub_dnnmenu_itemselected" />
              <param name="CSSContainerRoot" value="sub_dnnmenu_container" />
              <param name="CSSControl" value="sub_dnnmenu_bar" />
              <param name="CSSBreak" value="sub_dnnmenu_break" />
              <param name="RenderMode" value="UnorderedList" />
            </object>

 Question is, can/should this be implemented in the DNN core?, or should we just create another navigation provider based off the original one?

This should have been in the core... but now I am not so sure anymore. In the future, I expect that the Telerik menu skin object is going to be the default standard. Furthermore, there are already a lot of menu skin objects on the market either free or for sale and most skinners I know use ascx skinning anyway. But you could log your solution (that is your code) in Gemini and maybe someone from DNN corp or the core team may pick it up.

Peter