Milonic JavaScript Menu

Hey Kevin,

The openmenusbyurl.js is still somewhat buggy, could you help me tweak it some?

If not, no sweat - don't worry about it. I'll eventually figure it out...

You see, it doesn't work work if you navigate deeper then the first sub-menu of the menu. In other words, if I visit a page two ...

I prefer the Booty. Aarrrr!

PS. It works perfectly now with the current version.

Thanks again.

Ben

PS:

There is a bug with it in FireFox, however. It works great in IE but in FireFox the sub menu follows you down the screen if there is room to scroll. Any ideas on how to get the menu to stay put like it does in IE?

Thanks again,

Ben

There is a module that you might be able to use. I've not played with it so can't give you any more information on it. It is supposed to open the submenus based on the url as you can see by the name :)

http://www.milonic.com/openmenusbyurl.js

Ruth

I finally got it to work! :D

Thank you ...

I have a tricky menu request that I need some assistance with. I was asked if this could be done. I said it could, however now I'm not sure how to do it and may have bitten of more than I can chew (so to speak). Any assistance or advice you could give me would be much appreciated.

Take a look the ...

I found a way to "fix" it, sort of: I just specified the actual root page page name for each directory (area of study).
For example: /prospects/areasofstudy/art/ index.asp

Although this may cause minor management problems with our CMS and also cause historical linking problems after we convert the ...

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Hi Ruth and Kevin. Do either of you have any additional thoughts/suggestions about this? Can anything be done about it?

Always grateful,
Ben

Hi Ruth, I'll try to explain it again.

The purpose for the pagematch property (feature), as I understand it, is to highlight the particular menu item that matches the current page's URL. So if I am on: "/prospects/areasofstudy/art/alumni.asp" then the menu item for the link entitled "Alumni ...

Ruth,

Since our development site is behind a firewall, I can't show you exactly what I'm talking about, but I'll try to be as specific as I can. (All the following URLs are exact.)

When on the Art page: -www.evansville.edu.edu/prospects/areasofstudy/art/

The link to the "Areas of Study" directory ...

On our development site (sorry, no URL), I'm trying to implement the pagematch property.

It works great with URL's with page names like "\dir1\index.htm" or "\dir1\dir2\index.htm", however for links to root directories, such as "\dir1\" or even "\dir1\dir2\", pagematch is too smart (or not smart ...

Thanks Andy.

Two things.

First, a possible bug with menu v.5.68:

http://www.evansville.edu/prospects/adm ... selors.asp

Clicking on the state of Indiana gives me the following javascript error:

Error: ignoreCollisions is not defined
Source File: http://www.evansville.edu/inc/milonic/mmenudom.js
Line: 20

I ...

Thanks John.

I added the extra drawMenus() and moved the menu data into the body of the HTML. There is a very apparent difference now with IE: the text for the main top menu displays almost instantly, before anything else on the page loads. With Mozilla browsers, I don't notice any real change ...

Missing drawMenus(); after the sideMenu code.

The bulk of the menu code is after the </body>.

John,

Is there a performance/load difference if I include a drawMenus() with the sideMenu? I didn't notice any improvment in load times when I had it there originally, so I just left it out.

Also ...

Andy,

I've noticed this problem using FireFox v.1.0 and Netscape v.7.1 on my iBook running Mac OS 10.3.6.

However, I just downloaded Netscape v.7.2 and this problem no longer occurs. So, it seems to be exclusive to FireFox 1.0 on my iBook. But I don't have access to any other Mac's to test this ...

If you have a Mozilla browser running on Mac OS X, take a look:

http://www.evansville.edu/test/test.html

Try to access any of the sub-menus.
8 times out of 10 the sub-menu doesn't show or stay upon mouseOver.

I'm using v.5.60 for this test page, the rest of the site is using v.5.51 and this ...

I figured it out, but it's the weirdest thing. If anyone can explain it to me, please do.

The problem was related to the anchor property of the area tags used with the image map. I was using " href="javascript:location.nohref" " instead of "nohref" to disable the link within the area tags. Changing ...

I'm having image problems with the menu. If you're using IE 6 or Opera 7.5 take a look:

http://www.evansville.edu/prospects/adm ... elors2.asp

Note the lack/inconsistent display of counselor pictures as you click on the states (ignore Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana - those work fine for some ...

When you want every item in a menu to be the same width, there's no need to specify the itemwidth in every single aI() string. itemwidth can serve as a menu property as well (just as you use it in your other side menu). If you remove itemwidth=140; from each of the aI() strings, and just use ...

Ruth wrote:Personally I don't know why they have so-called standards which no browser renders the same anyway. However, that's my pet peeve.

It's the plight of every web designer, and sometimes it's so frustrating it can make a grown man cry...