I have found a few tips in this forum, and I have tried several things, but I cannot get something like the following to work:

Home / Tab 1 / Tab 2 / Tab 3

No matter what I try, I cannot get the " / " separator to show up.

Any suggestions?

While this example is a little more fancy than the simple '/' separator, you can download my skin for free and substitute out the image for your character.

Hope it gets you going in the right direction.

Thanks, Jon. Your skin confirms some of the things I have already tried, but I'm going through and trying again, in case I missed something. So far, no luck.

Shouldn't I be able to use something like the following?

<Setting>


    <Name>Separator</Name>


    <Value><![CDATA[&nbsp;/&nbsp;]]></Value>


</Setting>

It doesn't. Based on your skin, I am currently experimenting with rightseparator and still nothing. Any further direction you could provide here would be greatly appreciated. I feel like I'm missing something very simple, but I just don't see it!

Try doing it directly in the ascx file for your skin. Just add it as a property to the menu skin object. separator="/"

Thanks for the tip, but that still doesn't work.

Because I work in ASCX mode only - if you apply this to the following pages it will work -

Make sure this is in menu control code.

<dnn:MENU runat="server" id="dnnMENU" separator=" | " separatorcssclass="MySeparator" separatecss="true"/>


This is required in the CSS for nice spacing between the text -

.MySeparator {
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Trebuchet MS;
font-size: 9pt;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
color: white;
padding-right: 4px;
padding-left: 4px;
font-size: 10px;
cursor: pointer;
cursor: hand;
}

See that how that goes - I have take this from a commercial skin I've just done with great results.

Nina Meiers

Tried it. Still nothing. My style rule was a little different but very basic. It just seems like there's something blocking SolPart from interpreting the attributes or something. I just don't know what's going on. It *should* be working!

Thanks for trying. Any more ideas? Jon?

FWIW, when I install the SolpartSkin and assign the tabs skin, I don't get the tabs. You can see it here: http://bl.fwpublications.com/Default.aspx?tabid=145.

I am using 1.4. That's the latest version of the menu, right?

1st, your spmenu.js script file is not matched up with 1.4 (it is the one for 1.3 - see the header)

2nd I am guessing you didn't install the skin as the host. This is something that I noted is a shortcoming in the skin design. The image paths for the tabs doesn't get replaced.

That spmenu.js file was updated on my development and staging systems but never made it out to the production system. Thanks for catching that. I have replaced the file with the newer version and double-checked the DLLs, which were indeed version 1.4.

Also, I was logged in as host when I uploaded and applied the skin. Double-checked the paths in the uploaded skin's ascx and verified location of skin graphics. Everything looks in order.

Still no tabs.

What Jon meant was that you need to upload the skin to the portal dir and not to the host dir.

Oh, I did that. Logged in as host and used the admin file manager to upload the skin. It is installed under that portal rather than the default global folder.

Did you try to reparse the skin?

Yes, and double-checked everything again -- in the processed ascx and css files. Image paths are correct, and image files are where they are supposed to be.

This has been my biggest issue with this, one of the classes is set to display:none; in the style sheet. I can not remember which class it is, but look for that in your style sheet.