rookie trying to create a sub menu asp/c#

[fumper]

I am a rookie trying to create a sub menu and failing miserably. I am using asp.net/c#.

I have a default.aspx home page, which has a link to cars.aspx. When clicking on the cars.aspx, I would like to have a submenu appear with ford, chevy, jeep, etc. This list of cars would be pulled from a sql table, (unless there is a better way).
I would then like to be able to click on an list item (ford) and have it open a cars.aspx page populated with ford info. I know this would be sql statement or store proc.
Each of the ford, chevy, jeep would use the cars.aspx page as a template, so I dont have an aspx page for every type of car.

any ideas on how i can do this? I have been reading that I could java script, but have been unsuccessful.

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[tperri]

pass the ID from the look up table (manufacturers, or cars) in the query string to the new page, then get that value and run your database query.

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[fumper]

I am not sure I understand. Here is what I am trying to do...
MAIN MENU:

CARS
TRUCKS
BOATS

When I click on CARS I would like a submenu to appear
CARS
FORD
CHEVY
JEEP

Then click on FORD, or CHEVY, or JEEP and have the page populated with the info on that car. I think I understand that your suggestion would work for the second part, but I am unclear about the submenu aspect.
Thank you for your help!

 

[whatsthehampton]

Hi,

Well these are decent articles...

This uses a self referencing table.

http://aspalliance.com/822_Building_a_Database_Driven_Hierarchical_Menu_using_ASPNET_20

Or the Tree view at:-

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/custom-controls/ExtendedTreeView.aspx

Then as tperri says just use the value from the menu item ID to populate the data.

Cheers,
Jon

http://www.iews.co.uk/

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