Hello,

What I would like to accomplish is to have tabs for various sections of a site displayed horizontally (and generated from a SiteMap because this will use membership, roles etc to access various pages), when a tab is selected all the pages within that tab (siteMapNode)s are displayed in another navigation menu (that comes from the same SiteMap) that will run vertically.

I was able to have the 2 menus work but without the tabbed effect.  I guess an example of this is asp.net, when you navigate to asp.net/learn/, learn is selected and when you go deeper, say to: asp.net/learn/moving-to-asp.net-2.0/ the learn tab remains selected.  I know they use <li>s on there but that I want it to all work from a SiteMap.

Hope I explained this well enough,

Thanks

It's clear what you are trying to do, but not so clear what part of it isn't working.

You are probably using a menu control and a treeview control. Using the expanddepth property you limit the nodelevels displayed by the menu to 1.

You say the menu's both work, so is it just the marking of the active tab that isn't working? Are you using the XmlSiteMapProvider? If so, I think it marks the all the nodes up the three from the active node. Have you checked the rendered html output to see what's happening?

Also, to achieve the ul > li structure they use on asp.net u should have a look at the CSS Friendly Control Adapters

I would strongly advice on using a menu for the tabbed navigation and a treeview for the vertical navigation.

As stated earlier, you can use the expanddepth property to limit the nodelevels displayed to just one. Then, use the SitemapDatasource control properties bound to your treeview to skip the first nodelevel (because this is the level shown by your tabs). The property is called something like 'StartingNodeOffset'

I see what you are saying but in the situation where someone navigates to a sub node of one of the menu nodes, the menu node is no longer selected and no longer looks like it's in the same tab.

I believe there is an easier way to do this.. but this article actually works: http://www.devx.com/asp/Article/31889/1763/page/1