Hi,
Is it not possible to get the menu to render using actual links (<a> tags) instead of table cells with a postback? Every page has a URL - when you click the menu you get sent to that page. I really do not understand therefore why the default menu provider insists on using cells with some sort of javascript redirection? I know asp is based on postbacks, but to me this behaviour is broken, and I'd like proper HTML links. I work on web applications which require javascript, I have no problem that it is required for the admin interface to DNN and for certain modules where it is actually needed but to completely disable even the most basic navigation to text-and-picture only information pages in this way strikes me as wrong. Also, even with javascript enabled, certain useful features (such as open in new tab/window) are unavailable to the end user with the standard DNN menu.
Is there really no option to the menu (or alternative menu provider) which will make it generate html links to the other pages? I have tried with the ForceDownLevel="True" parameter. This does give me links (great) but for some unnacountable reason misses all the useful classes denoting the level in the menu, whether it is part of the breadcrumb trail and whether it is the first item in a level. This makes it very difficult to style the menu appropriately.
Ideally I'd like an set of nested <ul> (not a table) with classes indicating the first item, the level (item, sub-item, etc.) and whether it is the current page or part of the breadcrumb but with links to the pages, not just <span>s with text in.
Alternatively, is there not some sort of template I could alter myself? I'd have thought that there should simply be an asxc file which receives the menu as some sort of array which one could just iterate through and generate one's own menu template? Does such an option exist?
Adam