You should create a new xslt file and select the "sitemap" template - it should get you much closer to where you want to be.  If you'd rather write it yourself, you need to look at a recursive template, but the sitemap xslt file will help you get your head around what is happening.

Dan

Thanks Dan,

Your suggestion is pretty much working apart from the drop down is only working on the homepage. Any thoughts to why this might be the case??

sorry if this is something really dumb, like i said, im new to xslt

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>

<xsl:stylesheet 

  version="1.0" 

  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 

xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" 

xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets" 

exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets ">

<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

<!-- update this variable on how deep your site map should be -->

<xsl:variable name="maxLevelForSitemap" select="4"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<div id="top-nav">        

<div id="premenu">

          <a href="/">

            HOME</a> &nbsp;

</div>

<xsl:call-template name="drawNodes">  

<xsl:with-param name="parent" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node [@level=1]"/>  

</xsl:call-template>

</div>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="drawNodes">

<xsl:param name="parent"/> 

<xsl:if test="umbraco.library:IsProtected($parent/@id, $parent/@path) = 0 or (umbraco.library:IsProtected($parent/@id, $parent/@path) = 1 and umbraco.library:IsLoggedOn() = 1)">

<ul id="menu">

<xsl:for-each select="$parent/node [string(./data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1' and @level &lt;= $maxLevelForSitemap]"> 

<li>  

<a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">

<xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/></a>  

<xsl:if test="count(./node [string(./data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1' and @level &lt;= $maxLevelForSitemap]) &gt; 0">   

<xsl:call-template name="drawNodes">    

<xsl:with-param name="parent" select="."/>    

</xsl:call-template>  

</xsl:if> 

</li>

</xsl:for-each>

</ul>

</xsl:if>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Can anyone help. I've tried all sorts but cant work this out.

Is the macro placed on all templates, or just on the homepage?

Dan

its on all templates. 

Hmm.  Without seeing your site it's hard to see what is going wrong here, but starting with an install of something like http://our.umbraco.org/projects/business-website-starter-pack will allow you to see code that solves problems you are likely to encounter.

There doesn't seem to be much of anything wrong with your xslt (quick glance).  Is the submenu rendered on all pages? Or is only the dropdown code not operating ont he subpages?  i.e. if you go to a subpage and disable css can you see the menu with subpages included?

So in short 

homepage - working correctly

nodes under homepage - shows just the first level nodes but the drop down with the 2nd level nodes isnt showing

next level of nodes - same again, shows just the first level nodes but the drop down with the 2nd level nodes isnt showing

it does seem to be a css issue. when i turn off srtyling the links are there! 

Are the paths to your css etc working ok? i.e. using absolute paths

<link rel="bleh" href="/css/sheet.css" />

Dan

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