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WSS 3.0 Drop Down (or Fly-Outs) for Top Navigation Bar

In WSS 3.0, I altered our default.master as followed so we can have Drop Down links (or fly-outs) on our Top Navagatin bar.

Replaced:
< asp:SiteMapDataSource
ShowStartingNode="False"
SiteMapProvider="SPNavigationProvider"
id="topSiteMap"
runat="server"
StartingNodeUrl="sid:1002" / >

With:
<asp:SiteMapDataSource
ShowStartingNode="True"
SiteMapProvider="SPSiteMapProvider"
id="topSiteMap"
runat="server" />

After some research I found this is a hack that is using the SPSiteMapProvider to enable fly-out menus on the dropdown and a "hack" is not the intent of the SPSiteMapProvider.

According to the Microsoft site (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms475096.aspx) WSS 3.0 has new components for customization of the top navigation bar including adding Microsoft JScript drop-down menus and fly-outs, which is provided by new shared navigation and master pages. Such menus can only be enabled by modifying a master page; there is no built-in support for enabling these menus.

Can anyone provide me with the code I need to modify the master page and direct me where to place it in the code of the master page.

Thanks!

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Senniger1

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Thank you for your response. We do have SPD, but I'm a newbie to all of this and don't know how to write a menu control. I'm wondering if anyone has written one which I can use. Currently I don't have the option to purchase a third party control.

Thanks,
Leigh

Senniger1

ASKER

Although the information may have been accurate, I replied that I needed more help with the coding and never got a response. Without additional help I couldn't confirm whether the response was accurate or not or if it would have solved my problem.