Unable to Show Amazon-Style Menu's Sub-Menu Automatically

pmerlyn · Post by **pmerlyn** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:24 pm

Hello Support Forum,

I recently began using Milonic's excellent menu system to create an Amazon-style tab menu with one level of submenus. My page is at: http://www.newresolution.org/home.html.

The problem: As you'll see when you visit that page, only the main menu opens when the page loads. The submenus remain closed until the user clicks on one of the tab menu items in the main menu.

What I want to happen: I want a submenu (specifically, the submenu that is associated with the first item [labeled 'Mediation'] in the main menu) to show automatically whenever the newresolution.org/home.html page first loads.

Background: I'm using Windows XP Professional and experience the same situation in both IE and Netscape.

Thank you for your help with this great product.

Best wishes,

Paul

kevin3442 · Post by **kevin3442** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:46 pm

Hi Paul,

A quick thought: If you give your submenus a top position (which should work, since all of your submenus open in the same place), then you could open any particular submenu using a call to popup('MenuName') from the onload event. E.g., on your home.html page, you could have:

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<body onload="popup('MainMenu1')">

For pages reached by the submenu items, you could try automatically opening the correct submenus using the openmenusbyurl.js add-on module.

Cheers,

Kevin

Post by **Ruth** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:00 am

I'm so sorry. I was working on this and meant to post and forgot. Must be that 'old age syndrome' everyone talks about

The openmenusbyurl.js module is the way to go and it will work when the bug is fix. The new version does not work, and I've reported it.

Ruth

pmerlyn · Post by **pmerlyn** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:15 pm

Hi Ruth and Kevin,

Thank you both for your replies. I didn't have success with the call-to-popup approach, so it looks like I should wait for the fix to the openmenusbyurl.js module. Would you please let me know when it's available and where I can obtain it when it's ready.

Thank you and best wishes,

Paul

Post by **Ruth** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:21 pm

Hi Paul,

Sure will. It has been reported, so as soon as they can get it fixed we'll let you know. It's one of the Milonic Bolt-on modules. You can find that on the main site under the DHTML Menu heading of the menu. Down toward the middle, I think it is. Says Bolt-on Modules.

Ruth

Post by **Andy** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 11:48 am

Hi,

The issue with openmenusbyurl.js has now been fixed.

If you upgrade the file http://milonic.com/openmenusbyurl.js the menus should open up again

Regards,
Andy

pmerlyn · Post by **pmerlyn** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 12:10 am

Hi Andy, Ruth, and Kevin,

Thanks for letting me know about the fix to the openmenusbyurl.js bolt-on module.

Best wishes,

Paul