Hi. If I understand your question right then Implementing drop-down menu has nothing to do with Umbraco itself - you just render it as regular HTML and then apply to it any drop down menu technics (javascript or CSS) that you like - you can google lots of those.

Thanks Rodion - so is there no way to get this working from the normal sub navigation in umbraco?

Why not? In a regular site you usually draw somthing like <ul> in your html and then apply some CSS or JS to it to turn it to a drop-down menu. Here's the same with the only difference that you're rendering your <ul> with an umbraco macro.

Ok yep I could create the menu using <ul><li> etc but how do I render that using an umbraco macro? Sorry I'm very new to Umbraco and the old cms I used would generate the drop down automatically.

Thank you 

Here you can watch the video with a sample how a macro can be created:

http://umbraco.com/help-and-support/video-tutorials/introduction-to-umbraco/sitebuilder-introduction/creating-your-first-xslt-macro/TVPlayer 

Thanks - I've watched the video and I see how the navigation works. But, it just displays the level one items. How do I make it display the 2nd level as well? Thanks, Sophie

You can create your Xslt macro from the template which you can use as a start point and modify as you like:

Maybe I wasn't clear. I've got a working menu in place. It displays only the top level items all working no problem.

Through my lack of knowledge with umbraco/xslt etc I don't understand what changes I need to implement to get the 2nd level navigation to display in the menu as well. I'd ideally like it in a dropdown. If you could guide me on that I should be able to control the dropdown with css. Are you able to be more explicit with how I achieve this? Here's the xslt code I have:

<?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"
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library">


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

    <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

    <!-- Input the documenttype you want here -->
    <xsl:variable name="level" select="1" />

    <xsl:template match="/">

      
 <ul id="topNavigation">
       <li class="home">
         <xsl:if test="$currentPage/@id = $currentPage/ancestor-or-self::* [@level=$level]/@id">
             <xsl:attribute name="class">home current</xsl:attribute>
         </xsl:if>
         <a href="/">Home</a>
       </li>
     <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::* [@level=$level]/* [@isDoc and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']">
  <li>
     <xsl:if test="@id = $currentPage/@id">
        <xsl:attribute name="class">current</xsl:attribute>
      </xsl:if>
    <a class="navigation" href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
      <span><xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/></span>
    </a>
  </li>
  
  
</xsl:for-each>

</ul>
      

    </xsl:template>
    
</xsl:stylesheet> 

Thanks for your patience

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