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SharePoint 2010: Navigation Drop Down Styles

If you would like to stylize your navigation drop downs in SharePoint 2010 here are the 4 main key classes to update your CSS.

If you are looking for SharePoint 2007 styles see my previous blog post here.

The OOTB Navigation Drop Down CSS: “COREV4.CSS”
.s4-tn ul.dynamic{
/* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light2")] */ background-color:white;
/* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Dark2-Lighter")] */ border:1px solid #D9D9D9;
}
.s4-tn li.dynamic > .menu-item{
display:block;
padding:3px 10px;
white-space:nowrap;
font-weight:normal;
}
a:link{
/* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Hyperlink")] */ color:#0072BC;
text-decoration:none;
}
.s4-tn li.dynamic > a:hover{
font-weight:normal;
/* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light2-Lighter")] */ background-color:#D9D9D9;
}

image


Example (Not good design, but you get the point)

/* Drop Down: Container Style */
.s4-tn ul.dynamic{
background-color:white;
border:3px dashed #000;
}
/* Drop Down: Item Padding Style */
.s4-tn li.dynamic > .menu-item{
padding:10px 20px 10px 20px;
}
/* Drop Down: Hyperlink Styles */
.s4-tn li.dynamic > a{
font-size: 9pt;
font-weight:normal;
color:#000;
}
/* Drop Down: Hyperlink Hover Style */
.s4-tn li.dynamic > a:hover{
font-weight:bold;
background-color:#0C0;
color:#FFF;
}

What it will look like:
image

Simply take the above 4 main CSS classes and add/edit/delete the properties to make your drop down style truly unique.

Comments

Anonymous said…
This is great! My problem is that there's a bad lag when the user moves off an item that has a flyout. I have a Top bar, 1st flyout, 2nd flyout design. When changing items in 1st the last item's flyout is still visible when the new item's flyout comes up. I can't find any answer.

Any ideas?
Aaron Sims said…
I’m looking after a SharePoint Foundation server, am I able to implement drop down menus or is it only with 2010 server?
Jamye Few said…
Great post. I am sure this only applicable on Server and not Foundation. Is there any other option to get drop down functionality in the menu on Foundation other than a custom solution applied to a obviously customized masterpage?
Anonymous said…
great post
but my problem is how to create nested menus i want to create 3 level menus but i dont know how
i do some search and the articale said to change the "MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels" in master page into 2 but its not work.
any help plz.
Anonymous said…
Thanks for the post. Is it possible to make the menu fly out in a vertical orientation vs. horizontal?
Edy said…
thanks. but how to add sub menus? I don't see any dropdown menu in toplink bar?
Bijay Kumar said…
Hi,
Thanks for the post, but why it is not working for publishing web site??
Bijay Kumar said…
I have tried in publishing pages, it didnot work. Please suggest me
Duru said…
There is a lag between levels, how can I fix it?

Thanks
Anonymous said…
How would I add links to the drop down menu's
ferif said…
Erik,
How about to implement the mega menu as http://www.emc.com/services/emc-consulting.htm has ?
That's excellent mega menu implementation.
Thanks

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