i have a website with master pages and content pages. the code for master page is:
<%# Master Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="Site.master.vb" Inherits="ProjectX1.Site" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="head" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="css/ui-lightness/jquery-ui-1.8.18.custom.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body style="height: 800px">
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div id="TopNav">
<ul>
<li>Top Deals</li>
<li>All Deals</li>
<li>Account</li>
<li>
<asp:TextBox ID="SearchBox" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:Button ID="Search" runat="server" Text="Search" />
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</div>
</form>
<!--Adding jQuery-->
<script src="scripts/jquery/jquery-1.7.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="scripts/jquery/jquery-ui-1.8.18.custom.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<!--JavaScript and jQuery functions-->
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#TopNav").tabs();
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
And my content pages are like:
<%# Page Title="" Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" MasterPageFile="~/Site.Master" CodeBehind="TopDeals.aspx.vb" Inherits="ProjectX1.TopDeals" %>
<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="head" runat="server">
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
Top deals page.
</asp:Content>
Now, the tabs renders perfectly but the text used inside tabs or section is displayed back again in each tab content.
Screenshot of how it is rendering:
And here is the rendered HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head><title>
</title>
<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><link href="css/ui-lightness/jquery-ui-1.8.18.custom.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /></head>
<body style="height: 800px">
<form method="post" action="TopDeals.aspx" id="form1">
<div class="aspNetHidden">
<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" value="/wEPDwUKMTY1NDU2MTA1MmRkc9+hm0xMYZPW5kzqPGh5scwv9zQtVHHjF3TK0OClx8M=" />
</div>
<div class="aspNetHidden">
<input type="hidden" name="__EVENTVALIDATION" id="__EVENTVALIDATION" value="/wEWAwLG75v1DwKuh5WeCAKF1vrqBsex0rMLZ1SKDXK1SSR/NgIGfr4ldbcVrFvXw7cqxVna" />
</div>
<div id="TopNav">
<ul>
<li>Top Deals</li>
<li>All Deals</li>
<li>Account</li>
<li>
<input name="ctl00$SearchBox" type="text" id="SearchBox" />
<input type="submit" name="ctl00$Search" value="Search" id="Search" />
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div>
Top deals page.
</div>
</form>
<!--Adding jQuery-->
<script src="scripts/jquery/jquery-1.7.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="scripts/jquery/jquery-ui-1.8.18.custom.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<!--JavaScript and jQuery functions-->
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#TopNav").tabs();
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Anyone can tell what I am doing wrong here?
The behavior that you are seeing is as per jQuery tabs - you are not using it correctly.
One of the typical use case scenario will have markup such as:
<div id="tabs">
<ul>
<li>First Tab</li>
<li>Second Tab</li>
</ul>
<div id="tabs-1">
Tab 1 Content
</div>
<div id="tabs-2">
Tab 2 Content
</div>
</div>
Note local referencing href on li and corresponding tab content div (with same id).
In case, URLs are used then jquery tabs will create the content div automatically and load them using AJAX (see content via AJAX exaple - http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/#ajax).
This is the case with your code, you are using urls - jquery is loading the url content in a tab. So, for first tab, you can see the content of TopDeals.aspx page - and this page use the same master and hence the tab markup appears in the content div.
EDIT: work-around
Firstly, opening a new page via tab is frowned upon by usability experts - check http://www.useit.com/alertbox/tabs.html! However, to achieve what you want, you need to set the href of active tab to a local link.
For example, in master page
<div id="TopNav">
<ul>
<li><a href="TopDeals.aspx" runat="server" id="Tab1" >Top Deals</a></li>
<li><a href="AllDeals.aspx" runat="server" id="Tab2" >All Deals</a></li>
<li><a href="Account.aspx" runat="server" id="Tab3" >Account</a></li>
<li>
<asp:TextBox ID="SearchBox" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:Button ID="Search" runat="server" Text="Search" />
</li>
</ul>
<div id="TabContent">
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</div>
</div>
Notice the placement of content placeholder. Now, in each page, you have to adjust the active's tab href accordingly. For example, in TopDeals.aspx, you have to add following line in say page_load or page_prerender:
Tab1.HRef = "#TabContent";
Instead of using hard-coded tab ids etc, I would suggest to use a Repeater in master page and populating it from code-behind. That way, you can expose ActiveTab property in master page (set by content pages) that will adjust href of the correct tab.
Finally last part is tab navigation: see this FAQ from jquery tabs so that when other tab is clicked, browser will open that page (instead of content getting loaded via AJAX).
EDIT: It appears that above FAQ has been removed by jquery team. To follow the tab URL, one needs handle select event - e.g.
$('.tabs').tabs({
select: function(event, ui) {
var url = $.data(ui.tab, 'load.tabs');
location.href = url; // follow url
return false; // to disable default handling
}
});
Related
This is the first time I have worked with Content.
I created a full aspx page with all styling and etc and it looks like this with all styling/bootstrap and etc:
Using the first page as a reference, I separated the code from it and copied it into the Master Page and moved all the navbar code into Default.aspx page.
When I create a content master and add the code it shows up like this:
I am unsure why the styling and etc doesn't show up. Something must be organized wrong?
I even tried adding css directly into the Master but still css didn't work.
<%# Master Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="Site1.master.vb" Inherits="CherylsGroupWeb.Site1" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<!-- Latest compiled and minified CSS -->
<link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.2.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<!-- Latest compiled and minified CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet nofollow" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css"/>
<!-- jQuery library -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!-- Latest compiled JavaScript -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="Index.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#menu-content li').click(function () {
$('#menu-content .active').removeClass('active'); // remove the class from the currently selected
$(this).addClass('active'); // add the class to the newly clicked link
});
</script>
<style>
<!-- put all css here to test as well -->
</style>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="head" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="topContent" runat="server">
Master Pages Tutorials
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="MainContent" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
I am not sure what exactly I formatted wrong, but by coping the structure of an example into a new Master and adding the content around my Default.aspx it displayed it. So I removed the <a> for my Default.aspx
Default.aspx
<%# Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="GroupWeb._Default1" MasterPageFile="~/Site2.Master" %>
<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="head" runat="server">
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="topContent" runat="server">
<!-- my nav bar code --->
</asp:Content>
Master
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div id='mainBody'>
<h1>
How to use Master Pages in ASP.NET
</h1>
<br />
<b>This is a Master Page Content.</b>
<br />
<br />
<div>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="topContent" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
<!-- ContentPlaceHolder is used to enable the pages which uses this page as master page, to place their contents -->
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
when I tried to create Web Form using Master page I got the HttpException:
HttpException (0x80004005): Content controls have to be top-level controls in a content page or a nested master page that references a master page.]
The Master Page:
<%# Master Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="adminNav.master.cs" Inherits="Site.AdminPages.adminNav" %>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Admin Page</title>
<link href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css">
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/js/bootstrap.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/Site/Scripts/CSS/AdminPage.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="bs-example">
<form runat="server">
<nav id="myNavbar" class="navbar navbar-inverse" role="navigation">
<div class="container">
<div class="navbar-header">
<asp:LinkButton class="navbar-brand" Style="color: white" ID="AdminHomePage" runat="server" href="/Site/AdminPages/AdminPage.aspx">Home</asp:LinkButton>
</div>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li>Users</li>
<li>Profile</li> </ul>
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
<li class="dropdown">
<a href="#" data-toggle="dropdown" class="dropdown-toggle">
<asp:Label ID="emailDeatilsLabel" runat="server" Style="color: white"></asp:Label>
<b class="caret"></b></a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<asp:LinkButton ID="LogOutLabel" runat="server" href="/Site/UserPages/LogOut.aspx">Log Out</asp:LinkButton>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</nav>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Here is the code of Profile.aspx ( what I tried to run and got the exception ):
<%# Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/AdminPages/adminNav.Master"
AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Profile.aspx.cs" Inherits="Site.AdminPages.Profile" %>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p class="explainText">
First name:
<br />
<asp:TextBox ID="ProfilefirstNameTextBox" class="form-control" runat="server" Width="250px" ForeColor="Black" placeholder="First Name" required="true" OnTextChanged="ProfilefirstNameTextBox_TextChanged" />
</body>
</html>
I tried also to write in Profile.aspx code only the elements (without ...) code but its still doesn't work
Content controls have to be top-level controls in a content page or a nested master page that references a master page
Visual Studio is telling you do do the following;
Wrap your mark up with the placeholder tags like this
<asp:Content Id="ContentI" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder" runat="server">
<p class="explainText">
First name:
<br />
<asp:TextBox ID="ProfilefirstNameTextBox" class="form-control" runat="server" Width="250px" ForeColor="Black" placeholder="First Name" required="true" OnTextChanged="ProfilefirstNameTextBox_TextChanged" />
</asp:Content>
You do not need to put the html and body tags as they are injected from the master page.That is how master and child pages work.
I have created a master page with a basic login page and applied css in it. But i get styles only for background and footer only, other divs does not get applied.
so i decided to create a web form and copied it without contentplaceholder it works
My css code:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=0N6SzL5p
My css working Web form code:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=QrvttGqN
Master page code:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=C2LH0SrE
And its content login page:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=GdQpWnVX
I'm a newbie in asp and i'm not trolling.
If it is a silly mistake please point it out and help me
Based on your stylesheet, the problem with the master page was that you should have a wrapper <div> that surrounds all of your nested elements.
A lot of your <div id="xx"> elements should be changed to <div class="xx"> as your stylesheet is CSS class definitions. e.g.
From:
<div id="top" runat="server">
and..
<div id="mainpage" runat="server">
and..
To:
<div class="top">
and..
<div class="mainpage">
and..
<div class="footer">
Complete Master Page Changes
<%# Master Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Demo.master.cs" Inherits="UI.Master.Demo" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
<link href="../CSS/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" />
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<title>Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<div class="top">
<div class="topmiddle">
<div class="logreg" id="login_reg" runat="server">
Login
Register
</div>
<div class="userlog" id="user_logout" runat="server" visible="false">
Welcome<asp:Label ID="username" runat="server">!</asp:Label>
<a id="A3" href="Logout.aspx" class="atypesty" runat="server">LogOUT</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="mainpage">
<table class="maintable">
<tr>
<td>
<img src="../Images/logo.jpg" class="logo" />
</td>
<td class="menucenter">
<ul id="Nav">
<li>
Home
</li>
<li id="Navprofile" runat="server">
<asp:LinkButton ID="lnbtn_Profile" runat="server"></asp:LinkButton>
</li>
<li>
About Us
</li>
<li>
Contact Us
</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="demo" runat="server"></asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<p>All words, images and code copyright ©2014 demo.com. All rights reserved.</p>
</div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
I am utilizing CSS3 to create rounded borders in my web app. I have created a blank asp.net application, I have a master page and one content page. The content page references the masterpage as expected and the masterpage is pretty much a standard out of the box masterpage.
When I run page locally without modernizr things look fine in all browsers, however when I include the modernizr .js file reference within the masterpage's tags I get a blank html page with the background color that I have setup in my css file. Everything between the tags is not being rendered.
here is a css snippet that i have that uses the border-radius property.
#container {background:#444;width:860px;border:1px solid #FFF;border-radius: 30px 0px 30px 30px; margin:20px auto;padding:20px;}
here is my masterpage (you'll notice modernizr commented out)
<%# Master Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Site.master.cs" Inherits="Site.Site" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title>Name</title>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="head" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style/style.css" media="all" />
<!-- <script src="script/modernizr.custom.51561.js" type="text/javascript" /> -->
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<h1>Name</h1>
<p> text
</p>
</div>
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li>Nav Link</li>
<li>Nav Link</li>
<li>Nav Link</li>
<li>Nav Link</li>
</ul>
</div>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
<div id="footer">
Links
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
And here is my content page
<%# Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.Master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="default.aspx.cs" Inherits="Site._default" %>
<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="head" runat="server">
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div id="content">
<div class="column">
</div>
<div class="column">
</div>
<div class="column">
</div>
</div>
</form>
</asp:Content>
Hopefully that is not code overkill... I have tried multiple .js files from modernizr, the dev version, a custom version, the production version... all seem to produce the same results. Perhaps I'm not setting it up properly, I was under the impression modernizr was just an included library that you reference and then forget about it and it pretty much takes care of the rest. Perhaps there's more to it than that.
This is broken and won't work:
<script src="script/modernizr.custom.51561.js" type="text/javascript" />
You need this:
<script src="script/modernizr.custom.51561.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
This is a mistake that you'll only make once.
I may be asking the impossible but let me set out my problem:
I have a menu in a MasterPage which uses images and mouseover mouseout events for design purposes.
On one of the menu options I need to display a set of sub menus options on the click of the parent menu item. The menu item itself also needs to navigate to a specified url.
I was originally trying to use an AJAX accordion panel but as I only had one accordion panel it was always displaying the sub menu items and was not collapsing.
I have also tried putting the options in a div and setting the display via javascript. This worked but then was overwritten once the page navigation postback occurred.
Here is the source:
<%# Master Language="VB" CodeFile="MasterPage.master.vb" Inherits="MasterPage" %>
<%# Register Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" Namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" TagPrefix="cc1" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<%# Register Src="LeadHeader.ascx" TagName="LeadHeader" TagPrefix="uc1" %>
<%# Register Src="~/LeadFooter.ascx" TagName="LeadFooter" TagPrefix="uc2" %>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<link href="StyleSheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
var revert = new Array();
var inames = new Array('home', 'whoweare', 'whatwedo','ourapproach', 'ourvalues', 'contact');
// Preload
if (document.images) {
var flipped = new Array();
for(i=0; i< inames.length; i++) {
flipped[i] = new Image();
flipped[i].src = "images/"+inames[i]+"2.jpg";
}
}
function over(num) {
if(document.images) {
revert[num] = document.images[inames[num]].src;
document.images[inames[num]].src = flipped[num].src;
}
}
function out(num) {
if(document.images) document.images[inames[num]].src = revert[num];
}
function ShowHide(elementId)
{
var element = document.getElementById(elementId);
if(element.style.display != "block")
{
element.style.display = "block";
}
else
{
element.style.display = "none";
}
}
function UpdateText(element)
{
if(element.innerHTML.indexOf("Show") != -1)
{
element.innerHTML = "Hide Details";
}
else
{
element.innerHTML = "Show Details";
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ContentPlaceHolder2" runat="server">
<uc1:LeadHeader ID="LeadHeader" runat="server" />
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
<div id="nav">
<div class="menu-item">
<a href="Default.aspx">
<img src="Images/home.jpg" alt="home" id="home" onmouseover="over(0)" onmouseout="out(0)"
class="right" /></a>
</div>
<div class="menu-item">
<a href="AboutUs.aspx">
<img src="Images/whoweare.jpg" alt="who we are" id="whoweare" onmouseover="over(1)"
onmouseout="out(1)" class="right" /></a>
</div>
<%-- <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server">
</asp:ScriptManager>
<cc1:Accordion ID="Accordion1" runat="server" AutoSize="None" FadeTransitions="true"
TransitionDuration="350" FramesPerSecond="40" RequireOpenedPane="false" >
<Panes>
<cc1:AccordionPane runat="server">
<Header>--%>
<div class="menu-item">
<a href="WhatWeDo.aspx">
<img src="Images/whatwedo.jpg" alt="what we do" id="whatwedo" onmouseover="over(2)"
onmouseout="out(2)" class="right" onclick="ShowHide('divDetails');UpdateText(this);" /></a></div>
<%--/Header>
<Content>--%>
<div id="divDetails" style="display:none;">
Management Development<br />
Leadership Development<br />
Personal Development<br />
Team Building & Facilitation<br />
One to One Coaching
</div>
<%-- </Content>
</cc1:AccordionPane>
</Panes>
</cc1:Accordion>
--%>
<div class="menu-item">
<a href="OurApproach.aspx">
<img src="images/ourapproach.jpg" alt="our approach" id="ourapproach" onmouseover="over(3)"
onmouseout="out(3)" /></a>
</div>
<div class="menu-item">
<a href="OurValues.aspx">
<img src="images/ourvalues.jpg" alt="our values" id="ourvalues" onmouseover="over(4)"
onmouseout="out(4)" /></a>
</div>
<div class="menu-item">
<a href="ContactUs.aspx">
<img src="images/ContactUs.jpg" alt="contact us" id="contactus" onmouseover="over(5)"
onmouseout="out(5)" /></a>
</div>
</div>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ContentPlaceHolder3" runat="server">
<uc2:LeadFooter ID="LeadFooter" runat="server" />
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
If I read this correctly you need the nav buttons to direct you to another page and open a sub-menu to display further options.
The easiest way to do this would be to create the entire sub menu on the master page and hide it in your global style sheet. Each page could then contain a line of css to show the appropriate panel no JavaScript required.
A more efficient way would be to use this.Master.Page.FindControl("myPanelId") to manupulate the necessary item server-side.
I can't visualize exactly what you are doing but I have used jQuery accordion menus to do something similary. My server side code built a nested unordered list with links and the appropriate images. I let the hover event switch the accordion panel so that I could still click on any of the links to go to the corresponding page. If this is closer to what you want I can give you a general idea of the code / css necessary.
Hope that helps.