Hi,

I'm incredibly new to using Silverstripe so forgive me for anything daft I might say.

I've been working on a website here: http://dev.whhf.org.nz - putting a CSS drop-down menu on the navigation. It's working fine but the problem is that the code calls the children of each page that's in the nav. If you hover over the 'news' link, a gigantic drop-down list appears because there are hundreds of news items which are children of the news page.

Is it possible for me to have SS call the children for all the pages EXCEPT 'news' and 'giftshop'?

Here's the code I currently have in Navigation.ss:

<ul id="menu">
 	<% control Menu(1) %>
	  	<% if Last %>
	  		<li class="li-top"><a href="$Link" title="Go to the $Title.XML page" class="$LinkingMode top sub last" style="margin-left: 0px;">$MenuTitle</a>
			<% if Children %>
				<ul class="leveltwo">
					<% control Children %>
						<li><a href="$Link" class="$LinkingMode" title="$Title">$MenuTitle</a></li>
					<% end_control %>
				</ul>				
			<% end_if %>
			</li>
		<% else %>
  			<li class="li-top"><a href="$Link" title="Go to the $Title.XML page" class="$LinkingMode top sub">$MenuTitle</a>
  				<% if Children %>
  					<ul class="leveltwo">
  						<% control Children %>
  							<li><a href="$Link" class="$LinkingMode" title="$Title">$MenuTitle</a></li>
  						<% end_control %>
  					</ul>
  				<% end_if %>
  			</li>
		<% end_if %>
   	<% end_control %>
 </ul>

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Please try to explain things to me as simply as possible if you can.. :)

You could add a <% if ShowSubMenu %> around the <% if Children %> then make a function like this in your Page class in mysite/code/Page.php

function ShowSubMenu() {
$ignored = array('news', 'giftshop');

return (!in_array($this->URLSegment, $ignored));
}

In that example I use the URL, but you could use ClassName if they have individual / unique classes. Thats probably safer say if you renamed giftshop later on.