Hi,

   I'm new to CSS Friendly Control and have spent some good time on this issue, hope someone can help me out.

   Issue: I have a Menu control that databind to SiteMapDataSource. On the Web.Sitemap, if I leave the root node to blank or not set any properties, the CSS Friendly Adapter will render and detect 0 MenuItem on the BuildItems(Control.Items, true, writer);  and the Menu item(s) not show on the browser.

example web.sitemap

<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >

<siteMapNode url="~/index.aspx" title="Home"  description="" />

<siteMapNode url="~/sitemap.aspx" title="Site Map" />

<siteMapNode url="~/aboutus.aspx" title="About Us" />

</siteMap>

On the Menu control, I set StaticMenuLevel to 2, Orientation = Horizonal.

On the SiteMapDataSource, I set the "ShowStartingNode" = False

My question, is the parent node has to be set and invalid if it leaves blank? If no, how can I make the Menu visible on the browser?

Hope someone can help.

Thanks

I'm having the same issue, how can i get it to work so that I don't have to show the first node?

use a page that you don't want to show in menu for the starting node and then set starting node to false. i use login.aspx for starting node.

<asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server" ShowStartingNode="false" />

 and my sitemap is like bellow: