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Oh, okay.... that's a template dependant issue, with a couple of solutions:

1) the complete solution:
    play with your menu manager template, and menu calls to solve the problem.

2) the quick and dirty solution, change your hierarchy to look like this:

    1.0 Mainsite Home
    2.0 Mainsite Page
    3.0 Section Header (Not shown in menu)
          3.1 Minisite Home  (shown in menu)
            3.1.1 Minisite Child Page
              (etc)
        (etc)
    4.0 Link to 3.1

Thanks.

Solution 1:  wouldn't know where to start 

Solution 2:  that's more like it, I think I can handle that .....with the exception that I thought it would work more like this:

1.0 Mainsite Home
2.0 Mainsite Page
3.0 Minisite Home Page Link
4.0 Minisite Home Page (not shown in main menu)
      4.1 Minisite Child Page
      4.2 Minisite Child Page
      4.3 Link to Minisite Home 4.0

I was originally just following the instructions in that minsite thread, so I created a top level content page for my minisite, that's top level page 4.0. But of course, because it's checked to not show in menu...it doesn't show in any menu! But it is an active page. Therefore there needs to be a link within the minisite child pages to get back to the minisite home page.           

Yes?

One of the reasons for not going into too many levels is the complexity of the menu css......which i can't even fathom at the simplest level yet! 

You'll probably tell me this won't work. So I will look at your model, too.

hj

Yeah, that should work.... but may not be what you want.

(I'll write this here as a follow up, because it refers to the minisite build. But it might be moved to a new topic.)

I'm really, really bamboozled by css styling...

I made a new template for my minisite witha content tag and, in a left column, the menu tag. Stylesheet tag was also added to head of document.

Menu tag was placed in a table cell and given a div ID of 'menu_vert' - so that anything within it would be styled along the stylesheet rules of menu_vert.

A new stylesheet called minisite was uploaded and attached to the minisite template. It included the css for the main template and also the menu_vert styles cut-and-pasted from the default navigation:simple_vertical stylesheet. The link styles from the  Layout: left sidebar + 1 column stylesheet were also copied and pasted into the minisite stylesheet. So all CSS for minisite would be in one place (for my piece of mind and understanding )

Regrettably on firing the minisite up, none of the default menu styling, as seen in the default CMSMS, is apparent. Just some underlined text for the links.

IF I'm still using the simple_navigation template within my new minisite template.....and IF I have made the menu_vert styles available to this template.....why ain't it working?

hj

if you did everything correctly, it should be working....

I'd suggest you use the web developers toolkit for firefox and do a view css, and see what's there.

You can also view the source of the page, and make sure that the sylesheet tag is in there, and copy the url(s) in the head section into another browser tab to view the css.

web developers toolkit?.....is that the DOM Inspector?

I did a search at Mozilla for web developers toolkit and there isn't anything. Is it a more specific extension?

hj

May be toolbar instead of toolkit. See firebug also. Google is your friend.

Pierre M.

I googled that...looks interesting.

thanks, Pierre!

hj