Configuring the Menu Control

[clintonG]

I haven't learned this control yet but I do need to know if it can be
configured to drop down instead of fly-out?

// Like this...
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Static Root Label
-------------------
DropDown Item 1
DropDown Item 2

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[Mark Rae]

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>I haven't learned this control yet but I do need to know if it can be
configured to drop down instead of fly-out?

// Like this...
-------------------
Static Root Label
-------------------
DropDown Item 1
DropDown Item 2

Orientation="Vertical"

[clintonG]

Thanks Mark but Vertical makes it fly-out. I didn't fool around enough with
Horizontal yet...

<%= Clinton

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>>I haven't learned this control yet but I do need to know if it can be
configured to drop down instead of fly-out?

// Like this...
-------------------
Static Root Label
-------------------
DropDown Item 1
DropDown Item 2

Orientation="Vertical"

[Mark Rae]

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Thanks Mark but Vertical makes it fly-out.

I must have misunderstood your question - I thought that when you clicked on
a top-level menu item you wanted it to drop down its child menu items.

Have a look here: http://www.sanctuaryrig.co.uk/welcome.aspx

Enter the site and click on the Biogs menu item - is that not what you
want...?

[clintonG]

Yea, that's what it is (sanctuary.co.uk example). Just before coming back to
make note of what I discovered after hacked through and finally figured out
the terminology here is what I found noting I am configuring with one root
element to show the menu as if it were a single button with drop down
chices.

These fundamental settings meet my objectives:
Orientation="Horizontal"
StaticDisplayLevels="1" // root element, i.e. menu "label"
MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="2" // how many items drop down

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>Thanks Mark but Vertical makes it fly-out.

I must have misunderstood your question - I thought that when you clicked
on a top-level menu item you wanted it to drop down its child menu items.

Have a look here: http://www.sanctuaryrig.co.uk/welcome.aspx

Enter the site and click on the Biogs menu item - is that not what you
want...?

[Mark Rae]

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These fundamental settings meet my objectives:
Orientation="Horizontal"
StaticDisplayLevels="1" // root element, i.e. menu "label"
MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="2" // how many items drop down

OK.

If you're interested, this is the code for the Sanctuary Rig menu:

<asp:Menu ID="mnuMenu" runat="server" Orientation="Horizontal"
StaticMenuItemStyle-Width="100" StaticMenuItemStyle-Height="20"
StaticMenuItemStyle-BackColor="Gainsboro"
StaticMenuItemStyle-ForeColor="Black"
StaticHoverStyle-BackColor="LightSteelBlue"
StaticMenuItemStyle-BorderColor="GrayText"
StaticMenuItemStyle-BorderWidth="1" StaticMenuItemStyle-BorderStyle="Ridge"
StaticPopOutImageUrl="" StaticEnableDefaultPopOutImage="false"
DynamicMenuItemStyle-Width="100" DynamicMenuItemStyle-Height="20"
DynamicMenuItemStyle-BackColor="Gainsboro"
DynamicMenuItemStyle-ForeColor="Black"
DynamicHoverStyle-BackColor="LightSteelBlue"
DynamicMenuItemStyle-BorderColor="GrayText"
DynamicMenuItemStyle-BorderWidth="1"
DynamicMenuItemStyle-BorderStyle="Ridge" DynamicPopOutImageUrl=""
DynamicEnableDefaultPopOutImage="false">
<Items>
<%-- items go here --%>
</Items>
</asp:Menu>

[clintonG]

Thanks but I just about got done this afternoon and never bothered to look
at the HTML this menu control generates -- its nested tables -- so I know
understand what this CSS Control Adapter Toolkit [1] is for -- to clean up
the weighty menu and other controls -- I'm going to try to learn to apply
that tonight and see what happens or I may have to build my own using a
styled ul block.

The thing is, I'm going to have to make some kind of choice as this menu
must do a PostBack as I am using it to build a composite control. Then after
I get the PostBack integrated with the rest of the control I'm working on I
want to do it with Atlas. Ambitious huh?

<%= Clinton

[1]
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archi....NET-2.0-.aspx

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>These fundamental settings meet my objectives:
Orientation="Horizontal"
StaticDisplayLevels="1" // root element, i.e. menu "label"
MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="2" // how many items drop down

OK.

If you're interested, this is the code for the Sanctuary Rig menu:

<asp:Menu ID="mnuMenu" runat="server" Orientation="Horizontal"
StaticMenuItemStyle-Width="100" StaticMenuItemStyle-Height="20"
StaticMenuItemStyle-BackColor="Gainsboro"
StaticMenuItemStyle-ForeColor="Black"
StaticHoverStyle-BackColor="LightSteelBlue"
StaticMenuItemStyle-BorderColor="GrayText"
StaticMenuItemStyle-BorderWidth="1"
StaticMenuItemStyle-BorderStyle="Ridge" StaticPopOutImageUrl=""
StaticEnableDefaultPopOutImage="false"
DynamicMenuItemStyle-Width="100" DynamicMenuItemStyle-Height="20"
DynamicMenuItemStyle-BackColor="Gainsboro"
DynamicMenuItemStyle-ForeColor="Black"
DynamicHoverStyle-BackColor="LightSteelBlue"
DynamicMenuItemStyle-BorderColor="GrayText"
DynamicMenuItemStyle-BorderWidth="1"
DynamicMenuItemStyle-BorderStyle="Ridge" DynamicPopOutImageUrl=""
DynamicEnableDefaultPopOutImage="false">
<Items>
<%-- items go here --%>
</Items>
</asp:Menu>