Master Pages breaks Menu control

[Ben Fidge]

Hi

I've just created a new Master Page for my site and it uses the native Menu
control. Strange behaviour is happening on page that use the master page.

For some reason, the menu controls rendering is totally out. Instead of nice
"fly-out" menu's, the menus are all dumped underneath the static level menu
items when the page first loads. Hovering the mouse over one of the static
items re-renders the menu as it should look, but then the "fly-out" menus
don't work.

If I use the same menu on a page that doesn't inherit from the master,
everything works fine.

Is this a known bug or are there any caveats to watch out for when using
Master Pages with Menu control?

Thanks

Ben

 

[Ben Fidge]

An interesting thing about this is that the menu works absolutely fine in
IE7 but not in IE6. As far as I can tell there's no apparent differences
between the html rendered by the page using the master page, and the page
which doesn't use it.

The menu's are identical and I've even tried creating a blank master and
child page with a very basic Menu that has no CSS settings at all. Just 3 or
4 menu items, one of which has a sub-menu. Still the same problem.

 

[Ben Fidge]

Forgot to mention that examples of the working and broken menus can be found
at:

(Without using a master page - works)

http://cobas.co.uk/defaultpage3.aspx

(USing a master page - broken)

http://cobas.co.uk/mastertest.aspx

 

[Steve]

For what it's worth, I noticed the following:

Both versions "work" in Firefox
Both versions are also broken in Firefox - when the mouse cursor crosses the
vertical dashed line left of the menu. IE: Menu closes.

 

[Ray Booysen]

For one thing, fix your <img> tags. You don't ever close them in the menu.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://cobas.co.uk/mastertest.aspx

Which is also causing this:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/...ning=2&uri=http://cobas.co.uk/mastertest.aspx

 

[Brian Sabolik]

Hi Ben,

I am having this same exact problem. Did you ever get a resolution?

Brian

 

[Brian Sabolik]

Reading threads on other Master Page issues I came across this and tried it
and it fixed my problem....


In my web.config file, I had the following tag:
<xhtmlConformance mode="Legacy"/>

When I got rid of it, the postback/flashing stopped.

Brian