Milonic JavaScript Menu

If I might jump in...

Milonic menus can be styled with their own css. They also include some of their own default css styling. The problem is that the menus are generated by creating tables, using the <table> tag. If you use css to affect one of the base html tags, like <table>, then it'll affect ...

The thicker bottom border appears to be a bug. The system is doubling the border-bottom setting in your .offsub style. It apparently does so for top, right, and left borders too. I'll let Andy know.

Solution for now... stop using the .onsub style (just comment out the offstyle setting in your ...

Can you post a url to a page where this is happening? This should no longer happen. It'd help us to see it, to figure out what's going on.

Kevin

Hi Paul

Still not 100% sure where you want this in the menu code, but I'll take a stab. I'm assuming from your code snippet that you're using javascript as your ASP scripting language, rather than VBScript.

First, is your js code inline, in the main ASP file, or are you loading the menu's js code ...

Hmmm. Looks OK to me at first glance. Are the other values in the aI() string getting set properly from your record set? Have you tried using the Session.Contents() syntax? (Not that it should make a difference... just throwing out random thoughts.)

Try a js test. Stick an alert in your javascript ...

yes, that is the point of my entire post. When you do this the submenu becomes absolute, such that if you use left="10", the submenu is 10 pixels from the left window margin.

Hi Robert,

I think you may have misunderstood my suggestion. It's the "offset" part that makes the difference.

NOT left ...

Hi Cyril,

I think it's do-able, but you'd have to modify much of the way that sample works. For example, in the sample, the selected menu item number is passed from page to page using the openUrl() function. Since that's called from the menu item's url= property, you'd have to make your static ...

Have you tried an offset in the submenu definition?
Assigning the offset value in the left property should offset the submenu left or right; negative values for left, positive for right.

Cheers,

Kevin

Hi Elvira,

Very strange. When I run your code locally (since you have full urls), the subimages show up fine. But when I load your test page from your server... no subimages. So, I used FireFox's DOM Inspector to look at the menu objects. When run locally, the subimage src for your "Prospectus 07 ...

How do you want to incoporate the return of getSessionURL into the menu, as part of a menu item's url property? Help me to understand that, and I'll try yo show you how.

Cheers,

Kevin

For other folks reading... elly means rename menu_data.js to menu_data.php, so that the php code in the file will be processed when the file is served.

Glad you figured it out elly... nice work!

Cheers,

Kevin

I know you said the error seems sporadic, but can you please post some of the pages where the error has occurred? I can't seen to get any errors on any of your pages. Which version of FireFox?

Kevin

You have menuwidth and itemwidth set to 100% in your menuStyle.

Hi Emmanuele,

I think there's a better way. If your goal is just to center the menu, then you can remove the left property altogether and use the screenposition property instead (see code below). Otherwise, you can combine screenposition with a left offset from center using the left property ...

http://milonic.com/menusample9.php

http://milonic.com/tablemenu.php

Are you using the Milonic tootip module on any of your pages? I didn't see it on the pages I tried (also didn't get the errors on the pages I tried). If you're using tootips.js, can you tell me which pages please?

Also, you're running v5.758. You might try downloading and installing the latest ...

Which browsers do and do not show the menu?

Kevin

esordini wrote:

So here's my new question: is it possible to call the setLeftPos() function on each resize event?

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Hi Emmanuele,

You could call the function as an onresize handler, but it would not have the desired effect. The only way that function will work is by setting the position ...

Christiaan wrote:

...The problem I get in the Menu in a frame-based environment is when I'm clicking on a mainmenu-item such as Home or About Milonic the menu opens in a new windows ...

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Hi Christiaan,

Hmmmm... don't know how the menu would open in a new window. I'll assume you mean that ...

If the condition is detectable with javascript, then you could do the following:

(1) Make a function to test the conditions you're interested in (we'll call it setLeftPos() for an example... rename as you see fit). The function will return the left position that results from the conditional tests ...