Hi,

Gratulations to the great page. There I found the first time the infos I need to skin to solpartmenu.

Now I run into a difficult problem. Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox view diffent borders of the submenues. like you can see here

http://www.wh-portal.de/ Rassen

Why does this happen. In my opinion the IE is displaying correct.

Here is the .css for the menu

Any idea?

BW

/* Main Menu */
.MainMenu_MenuContainer {
 background-color: Transparent;
}
.MainMenu_MenuBar {
 cursor: pointer;
 cursor: hand;
 height: 25px;
 background-color: Transparent;
}
.MainMenu_MenuItem {
 cursor: pointer;
 cursor: hand;
 color: #FFCC00;
 font-size: 10pt;
 font-weight: normal;
 font-style: normal;
 border: #FFF 1px solid;
 border-width: 1px 0px 1px 0px;
  background-image: url(wh-portal-hg.jpg);
         font-family: Verdana;
 height: 30px;
}
.MainMenu_MenuIcon {
 cursor: pointer;
 cursor: hand;
  background-image: url(wh-portal-hg.jpg);
 border: #EEE 1px solid;
 border-width: 1px 0px 1px 1px;
 text-align: center;
 width: 15px;
 height: 25px;
}
.MainMenu_SubMenu {
 z-index: 1000;
 cursor: pointer;
 cursor: hand;
  background-image: url(wh-portal-hg.jpg);
 border: #EEE 1px solid;
 border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
}
.MainMenu_MenuBreak
{
   display: none;
}
.MainMenu_MenuItemSel {
 cursor: pointer;
 cursor: hand;
         color: #F60400;
 font-size: 10pt;
 font-weight: normal;
 font-style: normal;
  background-image: url(wh-portal-hg.jpg);
 border: #EEE 0px solid;
 border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
 height: 30px;
         font-family: Verdana;
}
.MainMenu_MenuArrow {
 font-family: webdings;
 font-size: 10pt;
 cursor: pointer;
 cursor: hand;
 border: #FFF 1px solid;
 border-width: 1px 1px 1px 0px;
 height: 25px;
}
.MainMenu_RootMenuArrow {
 font-family: webdings;
 font-size: 10pt;
 cursor: pointer;
 cursor: hand;
 height: 25px;
}

Hello,

As I mention in the skinning toolkit, this is a bug which shows up a lot. I've run some tests in FF for you using the web developers toolbar but can not see a solution.

The only option I think you have is to either remove all of the borders that disappear, or to place a white line in the background image that you are using.

In most cases when testing skins you will find that FF is usually correct and IE is the one that doesn't display correctly. If you can get your skin working in FF you will find it is much more likely to work in all other browsers as well.

Hope this gives you a starting point, thanks,

I think the problem are the default settings of the solpartmenue. There are still the default settings in the .html code. like backcolor=#333333,. menubarheight=16,...

So I want to override them. but I do no know where. I am directly editing the skin .ascx files. and not using the html and .xml files where I could configurate the attributes.

Where can I change this? Because there seems no chance to get a good menue in IE and FF, except the background is white, because this are the default settings.

Where I have to overwrite the default solpartmenu settings?

BW

Hello,

If you have a read of this article, it may provide some answers for you:
Introduction to CSS and inheritance in DotNetNuke skins

To override the settings, you can either delete the Solpart code in the default.css file or override the settings in default.css file by specifying them in your skin.css file. - Examples are provided in the article above,

Thanks,

Thx for help,

I delete all .MainM... from all .css except in the portals.css. But the problem is ( I think) the the solpart menu renders "hardcoded" some settings too.

Here is the Code In front there is e.g. BackColor"#333333" which I never set anywhere. I only changed th .css classes. e.g. in the css my MenuBarHeight is 30 which works well. So where I can change this? The settings are nowhere specified.

As I understood you vidoes, the skins are .ascx files, which can be automatic generated from the .htm and .xml files. I do not want to go this way. I want only to edit the .ascx skin files. So where would be such specified? Or how is this done?

The problem is with IE 6.0. FF works fine.

Are there other usable Menues?

BW

Hello,

Yes Solpart does have some hardcoded elements which could be your problem. The only way to edit this is to edit the source code for Solpart menu.

If you want to view you skin.ascx file, just go to the portals / default or portals / 0 (portal no. folder) where you installed the skin.

Other menus I have covered in the tutorials is the HouseMenu, but you can not create reliably a hover over menu as with Solpart, you can view the various options here:
How to install and configure the House of Nuke menu for a DotNetNuke skin
How to create a pure CSS skin
How to create Horizontal CSS menus in DotNetNuke using the HouseMenu

Other options would be to look at the new DNN menu that comes with 4.3.x - but I haven't looked at that menu yet so can't offer any advice.

If you are trying to troubleshoot your skin, I would check out this tutorial that I have just created for issue 16 - it will be officially released in issue 16 - Dec - but here is the link to the page ;-)

Troubleshooting DotNetNuke skins using the web developer toolbar

Hope you find it useful,

Thanks,

Thx a lot, Very usefull.