Help?

[smashf18]

Hi all. I am working on a website for my fraternity and trying to get the horizontal menubar to work before applying for the free license. I am having a lot of problems trying to get the mouseover to work. I keep getting error messages linking to the _menuCloseDelay &
_menuOpenDelay. The error says the two are undefined. Also, in frontpage, the if/else statements are brown as well as the entire path for the menubar. There appears to be no formatting linking to the menu_data.js file. Any suggestions or ideas? Any help is appreciated.

Will

[John]

Please post a URL (as requested).

[smashf18]

Here is a temporary URL I am using until the site is published:

http://www.angelfire.com/pa5/axpomegaphi5/

thanks!

[John]

Your _data file is pretty messed up. Some reading on proper syntax would be in order.

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with(main=new menuname("omegaphi")){

Should be (ALL instances)...

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with(milonic=new menuname("omegaphi")){

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style="menuStyle";

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style=menuStyle;

No quotes around the style name.

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aI("text=Undergraduate Brothers; showmenu=undergrad);

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aI("text=Undergraduate Brothers;showmenu=undergrad;");

Note missing closing " and no space between items (e.g., Brothers; show...). Also, all aI statements should close as shown - ;"); .

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aI("text=National History;url=http://www.alphachirho.org/" target="_blank");

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aI("text=National History;url=http://www.alphachirho.org/;target=_blank;");

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style=menuStyle";

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style=menuStyle;

Remove the trailing quote.

Also, move all the JS menu calls up to be the FIRST items after body.

A little less speed and a lot more care is suggested...

[smashf18]

Thanks for the fixes. They are appearing now, just having a slight problem with the submenus, but I am sure it is related to sloppiness.

[John]

Yeah, you could say that.

The subs events, fun, and links, called by your main menu, are not defined anywhere.

[smashf18]

Those are not the ones I am having a problem with. Eventually I will creat pages for those. Right now as far as I can see I can't get under Omega Phi the Undergrads and Grads to appear. Did I make a mistake in the coding?

I really appreciate the help. I am sort of learning javascript "on the fly."

Will

[kevin3442]

Hi Will,

The "undergrad" and "grads" submenus are not showing because of the following code at the top of your menu_data.js file:

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_subOffsetTop="10"
_subOffsetLeft="-10"

These are numeric variables, not string variables. So, remove the double quotes that you have around the values (making the values numeric). Like so:

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_subOffsetTop=10
_subOffsetLeft=-10

That should do it.

FYI: the reason the "omegaphi" submenu opened and the others didn't is because the top and left menu offsets only apply to submenus thath are opened from a vertical parent menu. If your main menu had been vertical, the omegaphi menu also would not have opened.

Cheers,

Kevin

[smashf18]

Ah. So much better. Thanks for the help. It is greatly appreciated. I guess I just need to learn javascript better and slow down when I am typing everything.

This menu really is the greatest out there.

[Ruth]

Hi,
You said you were new to the menu. You might take a look at the Beginners' Guide. It really is very basic, a pretty quick read with some examples for some basic things.

Ruth