Master Page / Dynamic Menu Troubleshooting

Okay, here's a weird one.

I have what I would consider to be a pretty simple masterpage. A table with four rows (each having an image slice as a background), a dynamic menu (nothing fancy), and one content pane. When I am testing the pages using this masterpage, and there is just text or images in the content pane, everything works beautifully. However, if I have anything besides text and images (a text box, a button, etc.) and I hover over a static menu item that has dynamic items underneath it, all of my background images disappear (those four sliced on the master page). Any suggestions?

 

Yep.


If you go to www.annbransom.com/index.aspx, you can use the menu bar just fine. However, if you go to that Admin link in the bottom right hand corner of the site (www.annbransom.com/admin.aspx), everything works fine until you hover over the "Services" button on the navigation bar. Then, all of the images disappear from the background.
help the newbie!!!

 

That is definately a strange problem. What menu control are you using?



Joel Thoms
DiscountASP.NET
http://www.DiscountASP.NET

 

I just dragged and dropped the regular "Menu" control. I have played around with the z-index on any <div> tags I've used, I've tried moving everything to the root folder, Ihave tried completely starting from scratch on those pages...I'm at a loss.

 

Oh. I haven't used that menu control. I wasn't aware it offered DHTML. Problems like this are usually very tedious and time consuming to solve.


First I'd recommend saving the html output for a blank page with no controls, then save the html output for the blank page with controls (textbox or whatever is causing it to break).


Then I'd use windiff.exe to compare the two files. Hopefully that'll offer some sort of clue.



Joel Thoms
DiscountASP.NET
http://www.DiscountASP.NET

 

How do I use windiff.exe? Is there a different menu control in visual studio that you would recommend I use instead?

 

I left the following page blank so that everything works: www.annbransom.com/news.aspx


All I did to the following page was add a button (no code, nochanges to any properties): www.annbransom.com/bio.aspx.


The code should be exactly the same with the exception of the button. Would you mind taking a look at the html to see if anything pops out at you?


Ann

 

You have a url to an example?


Joel Thoms
DiscountASP.NET
http://www.DiscountASP.NET