?How-to right align vertical menus

cameron · Post by **cameron** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:11 pm

Hi,

I've got some fairly standard vertical menus but the web designer my client is using designed the menus so that they are all right-aligned.

That is, the box of the submenus appear right-aligned to the box of the primary menu. The default appears to be left-alignment.

There is some sort of global variable in menu_data.js called
_subOffsetLeft which would be useful but changing its value doesn't
appear to do anything and I can't find any documentation on it.

Thanks!

Cameron

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:16 am

That's a bit complicated for me, but search the forum, for previous threads.

I'm confusing left and right, but probably what you are looking for is

openstyle="rtl";

maz

kevin3442 · Post by **kevin3442** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:27 am

Maz is right... placing openstyle="rtl"; in the definition for each submenu ought to do the trick (assuming I understand the goal). E.g.,

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with(milonic=new menuname("MenuName")){
style=menuStyle;
openstyle="rtl";
aI("etc, etc, etc");
aI("etc, etc, etc");
}

Cheers,

Kevin

cameron · Post by **cameron** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:50 am

Post by **Ruth** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:50 am

Are you asking to know is it possible to have the right border of the main menu and the right border of the submenu be in alignment?

Ruth

cameron · Post by **cameron** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:51 am

Post by **Ruth** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:41 am

I think you can do that using top="offset= whatevernumber"; needed, and left="offset=whatevernumber"; You can use negative numbers here. You would use these positions in the submenus you want to position from the main menu item. This is only a suggestion because without seeing the page and where the menu is and the submenus are supposed to open there's no way to know if the anti-collision part of the program will be called into use or if something else will cause a problem with this. There is also a section on methods and functions. I know there are things to do with gpos, getting a position and spos, setting a position but I don't really know if they refer to anything you would need.

http://milonic.com/menu_methods.php

Ruth

cameron · Post by **cameron** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:51 am

ack! sorry!

totally forgot to mention that I am using relative positioning (inside of a table td) so I can't use absolute positioning via top/left to move the submenus.

thanks for the suggestions, tho!

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:10 am

I think you can use the table padding, and maybe menualign="right";
then on submenus right="offset=*px"; top="offset=*px"; (*=number of pixels) The offset is from the main menu.

maz