Oct

Breaking the WSS Top Link Bar in two with jQuery

Since I got a fan of the jQuery Javascript library, usually I can?t resist showing off the power of this library in my SharePoint development courses at U2U. For example two weeks ago I was in sunny Cyprus talking about SharePoint, ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery and I told my students something in the line of ?with jQuery you can change pretty much anything in the SharePoint UI by just making use of Javascript?. Promptly one of my students asked me if I could show how to break the Top Link Bar of a SharePoint site into two parts. I really like challenges in my SharePoint courses, but I couldn?t conquer this challenge on the spot, it took me a couple of hours in my hotel room to get this to work. Now that I?ve got some time to polish the code a little bit, I want to share the code with you!