Hello everyone Problably a very easy questions and after reading the about 100 post im getting a little frustuated. Therefore I decided to post up. I have two questions. I'm using a sitemap with a drop down menu. when i launch the website when i hover over the menu item I would like the sub menu to over lay the table. This soounds confusing but basically right now when i hover over the menu the sub menus are behind the table so you only see about 3 letters.

Does anyone know what the simple solution to this is. Also How do I customize the sub menu Items?

Thank you everyone in advance.

make sure that your menu z-index is larger than table z-index

if you can't find the menu z-index you can set the table z-index to -1 and it will work

Thank you that was brilliant. How about do you know how i can format how the sub-menus look? thanks for all the help! 

what do you mean by sub-menus? do you mean the dynamic part that appear?

Sorry for my ignorance yes I meant to say the Dynamic part that appears when you hover your mouse over it.  Im kind of trying to imatte the menus on the left  of this website.   i really appreciate the help!

http://finance.columbia.edu/

for the submenus that dynamicaly appears you can use the following property :

DynamicHoverStyle >> when mouse hover (works only client script is enabled)

DynamicMenuItemStyle >> style of menu items that are in the dynamic part( submenu)

DynamicMenuStyle >> style of the menu itself not the items

DynamicSelectedStyle >> style for the selected item id in the dynamic part

Absolutely Awesome! thank you . 1 last question if you wouldn't mind. Can I ask you... When i have a site map and I go over to the source code, If I put  a link on the URL i get an URI error?... Is there a way around that. I have been looking on the web for a solution but so far  i have gotten nothing. However if i make the URL one of my pages withing my project it does work...

Thanks for all the help so far.

In your sitemap.web file make sure that the url attribute is configured right

like this for in project files

      <siteMapNode url="~/Pages/Sales/Default.aspx" title="Sales" />

 and for outer urls
 

      <siteMapNode url="http://www.google.com" title="Google" />

for more information on sitemap and navigation see this excellent tutorial by scott mitchel

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/111605-1.aspx

Hope this helps.
 

i think amrelsehemy answered you the right answer

i hope you get help of all your questions

Did my post help in anything, did you solve your last issue? 

kind of helped Thank you for taking the time to answers all this rookie questions. I was able to do away with the URI error with the site map. I dont understant how though. I mean I'm not doing anything differently. I look at the link you gave me and they had some fairly good tips there but most it was stuff i already have read. I just dont understand why sometimes using the sitemap i get an URI error? and sometimes I dont . Is very frustuating.

Thank you  though you have been a great help

nevermind it dosent work at all. now im getting the URI message again this only happens in the design window. The interesting thing is that when i look at the website on the web the menu shows but on my design window i have an error...  Has anyone else ever had this problem?

The design time enivornment does not allow outer http requests, it will only appear in runtime

NOW ! that makes perfect since. thank you for the info. Is been a tough one with just trying to get this menu situation figuere out. Can i ask you when you put menus together do you use the the sitemap or do you use your own javascript menus?  I notices that there is no static property for the actual menu when you hover over it to change colors. The dynamic part does change colors but not the static part.

The built in menu control works perfectly with the sitemap, when you change the sitemap .web file you will not need to repair your javascript menus, you will need to save the new sitemap.web it works good.

I found that darshoo up there told you how to set colors for the dynamic menu part

darsho:

for the submenus that dynamicaly appears you can use the following property :

DynamicHoverStyle >> when mouse hover (works only client script is enabled)

DynamicMenuItemStyle >> style of menu items that are in the dynamic part( submenu)

DynamicMenuStyle >> style of the menu itself not the items

DynamicSelectedStyle >> style for the selected item id in the dynamic part

 

You will have the Same properties available but with Static instead of Dynamic for the already visible part.

StaticHoverStyle

StaticMenuItemStyle

StaticMenuStyle

StaticSelectedStyle

the same for the dynamic but this time it is called static :)

Hello,

Please Mark ALL my posts that helped you IF ANY, so I will be credited for them.

Thank you. 

I did and thank you again for all your help.