As you can see I am having a problem with my menu control (rendered from web.sitemap)... the pages "advertisments", "contacts" and "employee resources" have sub-pages, so they get a little black arrow to space things out with.

 My problem lies with document archive and marketing department. They have no sub-pages and no arrow, so they render right next to each other. How do I fix this and put spaces in there? I tried putting   into the site map xml file and it crashed it.

 Thanks a lot,

 Matthew

Somebody has to know how to do this.

Hi Matthew,

Can you post your html code or xml file for futher help?

<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >

<siteMapNode url="Advertisements.aspx" title="Advertisments" description="American Sale Advertisements">

<siteMapNode url="Ad_Newspapers.aspx" title="Newspaper Ads" description="Newspaper Ads"/>

<siteMapNode url="Ad_TV.aspx" title="Television Ads" description="TV Ads"/>

<siteMapNode url="Ad_DirectMail.aspx" title="Direct Mail" description="Direct Mail"/>

<siteMapNode url="Documents.aspx" title="Documents" description="American Sale Documents">

<siteMapNode url="OnlineForms.aspx" title="Online Forms" description="Online Forms"/>

<siteMapNode url="Contacts.aspx" title="Contacts" description="Contacts">

<siteMapNode url="DepartmentalSort.aspx" title="Departmental Directory" description="A list of employees by department." />

<siteMapNode url="Resources.aspx" title="Employee Resources" description="Resources">

</siteMapNode>

</siteMap>

As you can see, the problem is some of the nodes do not have sub nodes, so they do not get an arrow rendered next to them, which in turn messes up the spacing. The menu control I am using is just the built-in menu control, using the posted XML file as a datasource.

<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >

<siteMapNode url="Advertisements.aspx" title="Advertisments" description="American Sale Advertisements">

<siteMapNode url="Ad_Newspapers.aspx" title="Newspaper Ads" description="Newspaper Ads"/>

<siteMapNode url="Ad_TV.aspx" title="Television Ads" description="TV Ads"/>

<siteMapNode url="Ad_DirectMail.aspx" title="Direct Mail" description="Direct Mail"/>

<siteMapNode url="Documents.aspx" title="Documents" description="American Sale Documents">

<siteMapNode url="OnlineForms.aspx" title="Online Forms" description="Online Forms"/>

<siteMapNode url="Contacts.aspx" title="Contacts" description="Contacts">

<siteMapNode url="DepartmentalSort.aspx" title="Departmental Directory" description="A list of employees by department." />

<siteMapNode url="Resources.aspx" title="Employee Resources" description="Resources">

</siteMapNode>

</siteMap>

As you can see, the problem is some of the nodes do not have sub nodes, so they do not get an arrow rendered next to them, which in turn messes up the spacing. The menu control I am using is just the built-in menu control, using the posted XML file as a datasource.

Try putting in &#160; instead of &nbsp; since it's an xml file it should like this better.

Hi

I have a test to use the code that you provider, but it works fine, did not display the probelm as you described, it is suggested that you should use a new menu control have a test to use the same datasource. below is my html code of the menu control,

<asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource1" Font-Bold="True" Orientation="Horizontal">
           
        </asp:Menu>
                 <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server" ShowStartingNode="False" />