CMSMenu

CSSPrefix

Sets the prefixes added to the names of the control’s CSS classes. Add prefixes for individual levels of the menu separated by semicolons (;).

See also: Building website navigation - Using CSS prefixes

“main;submenu1;submenu2”

Cursor

Determines the mouse cursor that the control displays for users controlling the menu.

“Default”
“Pointer”

EnableMouseUpDownClass

Indicates whether the menu renders different CSS classes for mouse-up and mouse-down events.

EnableRTLBehaviour

Indicates whether a right-to-left layout should be used on pages displayed in a RTL culture.

Indicates whether the menu uses a right-to-left layout on pages displayed in RTL cultures.

EncodeMenuCaption

Indicates whether the control HTML encodes the captions of menu items. Enable if you need to display pages whose names contain HTML code.

ExternalScriptPath

Sets the path of the external .js file with skmMenu scripts that generate the menu. The default path is ~/cmsscripts/skmmenu.js.

“~/myscripts/skmmenu.js”

HighlightedMenuItem

You can use this property to get the currently highlighted menu item and set its CSS classes.

HighlightedNodePath

Path of the menu item that the control highlights. If empty, the control automatically uses the page’s current alias path.

“/products/PDAs”

Layout

Determines the layout of the menu — horizontal or vertical.

“Vertical”
“Horizontal”

MenuControl

This property can be used to access the internal menu (skmMenu) control and its CSS classes and properties.

Padding

Sets the padding of the CMSMenu table.

RenderImageAlt

Indicates whether the control renders ALT attributes for images used in the menu (for XHTML compatibility).

RenderItemName

Indicates if the control renders the ItemName attributes of menu items in the output HTML code.

SeparatorCssClass

Sets the name of the CSS class applied to the separator cell (TD element) for the top menu level.

SeparatorHeight

Height of the separator placed between menu items of the top menu level.

SeparatorText

Text of the separator placed between menu items of the first menu level.

“|”

Spacing

Sets the spacing of the CMSMenu table.

ApplyMenuDesign

Indicates whether the control applies page menu design settings. True by default.

Columns

Contains the names of columns that the control loads for pages (menu items) in addition to the default columns. If you need data from other columns, type their names separated by commas.

Note: To find a full list of the default navigation columns, use the SQL queries debuggingtool and inspect the query performed by your navigation control.

“DocumentPageTitle,
DocumentPageKeywords”

HideControlForZeroRows

Indicates whether the control should be hidden when no data is loaded. Default value is False.

HighlightAllItemsInPath

Indicates whether the control highlights all items on the visitor’s current path.

SubmenuIndicator

Path to an image displayed next to every menu item that contains sub-items.

UseAlternatingStyles

Indicates whether the control uses alternating styles for even and odd items on the same menu level.

UseItemImagesForHiglightedItem

Indicates whether the control uses the item image if the highlighted image is not specified.

WordWrap

Indicates whether text displayed by the control uses word wrapping. If disabled, text that is too long is replaced by ‘nbsp’.

ZeroRowsText

Text shown when the control is hidden by the HideControlForZeroRows property.

“No records found.”

CheckPermissions

Indicates if the control checks the permissions of the user viewing the page. If the value is false (default value) no permissions are checked.

If true, the control only loads pages for which the user viewing the page has read permissions.

ClassNames

Specifies which page types the control loads and displays. Identify page types through their code names, separated by semicolons (;).

You can use the * wildcard as a substitute for any number of characters. For example Product.* includes the page types Product.Camera, Product.CellPhone, Product.Computer etc.

If the property is left empty, the control retrieves all page types by default. In the case of menu and navigation controls, only CMS.MenuItem pages are loaded by default.

Note: If the control loads all page types (empty value), only the common data columns from the View_CMS_Tree_Joined view are available in the retrieved data. The specific fields of individual page types are not included. You need to keep this in mind when writing the code of transformations, WHERE conditions, ORDER BY expressions etc.

“cms.news”
“cms.news;cms.article”

CombineWithDefaultCulture

Indicates whether the control loads pages from the website’s default culture version if the required pages are not available in the user’s selected culture.

Only applies if you do not set the TreeProvider property manually.

CultureCode

Specifies the culture code of the pages that the control loads. If not specified, the control automatically uses the preferred culture of the user viewing the page.

“en-us”

DataSource

Allows you to manually assign a DataSet or DataTable containing the pages that the control displays. You do not need to set this property for standard scenarios.

FilterOutDuplicates

Indicates if the control filters out duplicated (linked) pages from the data.

MaxRelativeLevel

Specifies the maximum number of content tree sub-levels from which the control displays pages. This number is relative, i.e. counted from the location of the page where the control is placed, not from the root of the website.

Enter -1 to load all child pages.

Path

Path of the pages that the control loads.

See: Writing page path expressions

SelectOnlyPublished

If enabled, the control only loads published pages.

TreeProvider

Gets or sets the TreeProvider object used by the control to access page data. If you do not assign a TreeProvider object, the control automatically creates a new instance.

CacheDependencies

List of the cache keys on which the control’s cached data depends. When the specified cache items change, the control clears its cache.

Each item (dependency) must be on one line.

If you leave this property empty, the control uses default dependencies.

See also: Setting cache dependencies, Configuring caching

cms.user|all

CacheItemName

Sets the name of the cache key used to store the control’s content. If you leave the value empty, the system generates a default name containing variables, such as the control ID, the selected culture and the name of the user who loaded the page.

The system cache is shared by all pages in your application, so cache item names representing different data must be unique globally. If you have multiple controls that load the same data, you can share the cache keys between the controls (optimizes loading of content and avoids redundant data in the cache).

If the content displayed by the control depends on variables, such as URL parameters, you can set a custom name dynamically in the page’s code behind.

See also: Caching the data of page components, Configuring caching

“CMSRepeaterNews” +
Request.QueryString[“id”].ToString()

CacheMinutes

Sets the number of minutes for which the control caches content retrieved from the database.

• 0 indicates that control does not cache content
• -1 indicates that the control uses the site-level content caching settings

Allows you to set up caching of content so that the control doesn’t have to retrieve content from the database on each request.

The caching mechanism uses absolute expiration time. This means that cache items expire after a specified time period even if the page containing the control wasn’t requested.

See also: Caching the data of page components, Configuring caching

FilterControl

Gets or sets the filter control used to limit the data read by the control.

FilterName

Gets or sets the code name of the filter control used to limit the data read by this control.

OrderBy

Gets or sets the ORDER BY clause of the SQL query that the control uses to load data.

“NewsReleaseDate DESC”

SelectedColumns

Database table columns that the control loads for pages, separated by commas ( , ). If null or empty, the control loads all available columns.

SiteName

Specifies the code name of the Kentico website for which the control loads data.

StopProcessing

If true, the control stops all processing — does not load or display any data or other HTML output.

TopN

Specifies the maximum number of database records that the control loads.

WhereCondition

Gets or sets the WHERE clause of the SQL query that the control uses to loads data.

“ProductPrice > 100”

CMSMenu

The main table element generated by the control.

CMSMenuItem

Standard menu items.

CMSMenuItemMouseDown

Menu items when the mouse button is clicked and held.

CMSMenuItemMouseOver

Menu item that users hover over.

CMSMenuItemMouseUp

Menu items when the mouse button is released.

CMSMenuHighlightedMenuItem

Highlighted menu items.

CMSMenuHighlightedMenuItemMouseDown

Highlighted menu items when the mouse button is clicked and held.

CMSMenuHighlightedMenuItemMouseOver

Highlighted menu items that users hover over.

CMSMenuHighlightedMenuItemMouseUp

Highlighted menu items when the mouse button is released.