Milonic JavaScript Menu

Bingo, that's the ticket, though I needed a negative value:

left="offset=-80";

did it for me. Thanks!

Is it possible to use something like:

_subOffsetLeft=90;

for a single submenu definition? I've tried that and it seems to have no effect.

This is for a search field menu item, and it's the only submenu I want to appear at a different offset than the rest of the submenus.

left=xxx;

doesn't do ...

Well, powers that be have asked for the arrows to be removed altogether, so this question is moot. Thanks anyway

I've got things pretty well dialed in on this site:

http://dev.journalism.berkeley.edu/

But if you look at the nav images on the homepage, they're mysteriously "elevated." This is not happening on any of the site's inner pages. Using exactly the same menu config. Is there anything in MM that could ...

You're right John - px seems to give the closest similarity. At least I've managed to get both versions to be legible without exceeding the left/right boundaries now, so I think I'll stick with that, as long as the boss is OK with it.

Cheers,
Scot

Bingo, that works! Many thanks Ruth.

I've tried specifiying font sizes in px, em, and %, but no matter what I do, font size differences under Mac OS and Windows are so different that the menu size is dramatically affected. Shown here using

fontsize="90%";

First on the Mac:
http://dev.journalism.berkeley.edu/temp/mac-90.png

And ...

I've got a drop-down Search field in a Milonic menu, which is working nicely.

http://dev.journalism.berkeley.edu/alumni/

I'm trying to configure it so that the cursor is placed automatically in the search field when the Search item is selected. I know how to do this in the BODY tag when the field ...

Thanks very much Ruth. Ironically, I just (finally) figured that out on my own, came back to update this query, and you had already answered!

I had actually tried that earlier, but what threw me was that I was testing to by resizing from the browser corner, but was not releasing the mouse button ...

Hi - I've read as many posts here as I could find on using the screenposition property, and it all seems very straightforward. Can't see that I'm doing anything wrong or unusual, but can't seem to get the menu to center (in any browser, Mac or Win).

The site design is table-free, so I can't hang ...

Many thanks Ruth. This technique also comes in handy when you need a wide spacing on main horizontal menu, but don't want the vertical submenu items separated likewise.

Very interesting netsprite! Thanks for the post. I wonder if we can find a different DTD that works, rather than eliminating it altogether (and without messing up the DTD requirements for the rest of the site). Please post here if you find a solution that doens't involve losing the DTD altogether ...

jgillet, my last test was with build 40. I'm throwing in the towel on this browser/OS combo. Sometimes it's just not worth it (though I would really love it if someone could suggest how to do the browser detect for that combo).

Thanks,
Scot

innkeeper - Don't have an earlier version handy, but I did try the followscroll suggestion just now. No joy, but thanks.

I learned from the sysadmin that the number of OS9 Macs is going to be diminishing steadily from here on out, so I'm going to move forward with Milonic. However, I would still be ...

Thanks everyone for the responses and suggestions. The reason I had everything in a table cell was because that's where the current navigational include is located (PHP). Rather than search and replace throughout the entire site, I thought it would be much easier to have the PHP include the ...

Bump.

Still can't figure out what's causing this. No theories? Is this browser / OS combination just impossible to use with Milonic? Is it a known issue? Anyone?

What if I want to feed the NS4 version to IE5/MacOS9? How would I modify the following:

if(ns4)_d.write("

Thanks a million to anyone ...

When the mouse gets anywhere near the menu in IE 5 for Mac OS 9 the whole menu scoots 100 pixels or so down the page and stays there. Bring the mouse back and it scoots down again. Quite spectacular, but not at all what I want :) This does not affect any other browser I can see, or even IE 5 for Mac ...

Excellent, many thanks!

Hmm.. downloading the replacement code once a license is issued is plenty easy, but I'm having a different problem -- I've looked high and low on the milonic web site and can't for the life of me see how to obtain a free educational license. I stepped all the way through the Pro payment thinking ...