Hi Joe,

I'm trying to apply custom classes to my skin for the navigation bar. I've read through your Creating Skins documentation several times and seem to be misinterpreting a few things.

I've read the "Custom Menu CSS Classes" page and thought that I could apply custom classes in the theme.skin file but I can not get them to show up. I'm confused on a couple of points.

• On your "Types of Menus" page it states that the mojoMenu is useful for generating custom menus in mojoPortal. I thought this meant I would add <portal:mojoMenu ... ></portal> in the theme.skin and then insert the mojoMenu portal control in the master.layout file, so I tried this:

[theme.skin]

<portal:mojoMenu runat="server" SkinID="SiteMenu"
ContainerCssClass=""
RootUlCssClass="container"
UlCssClass="children"
RenderLiCssClasses="true"
RenderAnchorCss="false"
LiCssClass="menu-item"
LiRootExpandableCssClass="menu-item-single-col"
LiRootNonExpandableCssClass="menu-item-single-col"
LiNonRootExpnadableCssClass="parent"
LiSelectedCssClass=""
LiChildSelectedCssClass=""
LiParentSelectedCssClass="subchildren"
AnchorCssClass="inactive"
AnchorSelectedCssClass="current"

/>

[master.layout in skin directory]

<portal:mojoMenu  runat="server" Enabled="true" ID="SiteMenu" Direction="Horizontal" UseSpanInLinks="true" HideMenuOnSiteMap="false">

But none of the custom styles are showing up and the styles that are embedded in the html are all .AspNet-Menu-Horizontal

I've tried setting the portal name in the theme.skin & master.layout to to <portal:SiteMenu ..../> and also have tried the <portal:mojoTreeView ... /> but that doesn't reflect my theme.skin style settings either.  I wasn't sure how important the SkinID was so I tried customizing it and matching it to the skin idea for the menu control in the master.layout file and still nothing.

I don't understand where the AspNet-Menu-Horizontal is being inherited from because it is not present in the theme.skin (in fact there are no references to menus at all in the theme.skin).  I also removed the aspnet-menu and treeview stylesheets from the style.config and have stripped the master.layout in the App_MasterPages directory down to the bare minimum (removing unneeded css etc) so that nothing unnecessary is inherited.

Also, caching is disabled, I've restarted the application pool, touched the web.config and cleared my browser's cache.

Any help you have to offer would be greatly appreciated ... I've really hit a wall here!

Thanks,

Beth

Hi Joe,

OK, so I set the control back to <portal:SiteMenu ... /> into the Master.Layout file, left the <portal:mojoMenu ... /> in theme.skin file. I have the SkinID set to "SiteMenu1" (What is the relevance of the SkinID setting in the theme.skin file and should it match the SiteMenu control in the master.layout file?).  I touched the web.config, rebooted, and it is still referencing the "AspNet-Menu-Horizontal" classes.

The web.config has mediumtrust set to false. I asked my supervisor if we are running our servers in medium trust and he isn't really sure although we think we are because we have extensive access and can rdp into them to directly adjust settings. But even now, I'm testing these changes out locally through IIS and am the admin of my machine so I should have full permissions at the local level, right???

My application pool is set to .net 4.0

I looked at the artisteer skins & jqueryui skin theme.skin files (within my siteID directory ... sorry I neglected to mention I'm running in multi-site mode) and searched for 'mojomenu' sitemenu' and 'mojoTreeView' and they were simply not present in those files. 

Being that these skins don't have menu styles defined in the theme.skin, I wonder where else they may be set at, or if they will always default to aspmenu and treeview if not explicitly set?  I also wonder if the theme.skin files are being included at all in the skins since the menu settings aren't present. Where is the theme.skin file included in the project?  Should it be referenced in the style.config??? I pulled out agent ransack and searched for theme.skin. I found the mojoPortal.Web.csproj file which lists <None Include=""/> for all of my theme.skin files within the Site directory.  There are <Content Include=""/>  for some of the theme.skin files within my SiteID directory, but not for the new skin I am working with ... not even after I rebuilt the project.

Also, should I be making these changes not within the SiteID directories but in Web->Data->skins->mySkin instead?  I tried adding my skin there but it doesn't seem to be making a difference.

Thanks for your help!

~ Beth

Thanks Joe(s) for all of the advice and help.  I'm embarrassed to admit that i am still running on version 2.3.5.3 and finally came to the realization that my version of mojo doesn't support custom css classes in the theme.skin (please correct me if I am wrong) ... no wonder I couldn't find any mojomenu controls in the theme.skin :-(

I will upgrade and try again.

~ B