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Solpart Menu and CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
First, we must learn the basics and discover how knowing and understanding a little bit of CSS coding can be extremely beneficial to us in the DNN world. Great place to start W3C Tools and Standards. or view our Resource page for more helpful websites.
The DotNetNuke Solpart Menu uses multiple CSS classes to put you completely in control of customizing your website menu display, whether creating your own custom DotNetDuke Skin or modifying an existing skin. You will find standard throughout DotNetNuke with the use of default CSS classes that control the presentation and display of your website. You can find the default CSS classes pertaining the entire DotNetNuke website, which includes the Solpart Menu, on the 'default.css' file that comes standard with DotNetNuke.
The Solpart Menu uses both CSS and XML to give it, it's look and feel or flow and presentation. XML we will go into later, and you do not have to understand the details about XML, if you are not a skin developer. The DotNetNuke Team put you firmly in control simply by using a little bit of CSS.
Controlling your Solpart Menu
The DotNetNuke Team gave you control of the Solpart Menu through the workings of CSS. They created a number of Default CSS Classes and Additional CSS Classes that manipulate the presentation (display) and performance (attributes) of the Solpart Menu.
What you will find in our lessons on the Solpart Menu CSS Classes
We have broken our lessons up into various sections. These lessons may or may not include all of these sections.
- Description - giving full detailed descriptions explaining the CSS Class.
- Example - sharing images, an example descriptions, and even giving you a live demonstration of the various CSS Classes in action.
- Overview - short, simple reminder listing the highlights of the CSS Class for your quick review.
- Tips and Tricks - offering HOW TO short cuts and answers to common questions and mistakes faced when editing the CSS Classes. That you may smoothly pass them by without incident.
- Suggestions - shares recommended CSS code and properties to use in both Horizontal or Vertical Solpart Menu, helping you by pass the difficulties often faced when working with CSS.
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