cursor appearing on menu items

[pat@dracoblu.com]

Hi...

I have just updated to v5.31a @ http://www.dracoblu.com. It seems some items in the menu now cause the mouse to change from the pointer hand to cursor when moving about in the menu. When scrolling over those items when the cursor appears of course can't be navigated. This is happening with top level items as well as sub-menus. I have never seen this happen before, and I have made no recent menu_data.js changes.

Any help would be appreciated.

Pat

[Ruth]

Hi Pat,
The problem has been reported. In the meantime there is a workaround to make it work. In every item that has a showmenu and no url, put this url=#; So, in your menu for example, Essays has a showmenu but no url attached; it would become

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aI("text=Essays;url=#;showmenu=essays;separatorsize=1;");

There are a couple of other things you need to fix. In most of your menus you have extra semi-colons in some places and missing them in others i.e.

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aI("text=Home;url=/index.html;;separatorsize=1")

This should be

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aI("text=Home;url=/index.html;separatorsize=1;");

Also, in the style1 declaration you have

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separatorsize="1";

remove the quotes they can cause problems in some browsers when placed around an item in the style declaration that is a number only.

Just out of curiosity, you have a separator declared in the style1 definition, so I'm wondering why you have it listed in each item also? It shouldn't need to be there.

Ruth

[pat@dracoblu.com]

Thanks Ruth....The problem still persists. I did incorporate the changes you suggested, however, if you mouse over sub-menu items under "info" you only get the cursor not the pointer hand. The same is true of the sub-menu under "dragon gallery" and "world myths". For other sub-menu items, the point hand appears.

The menu is acting very inconsistently. It isn't an issue of menu items with no URL and only a showmenu. The menu items with URL's where the cursor appears on mouse over are not allowing you to navigate. The #URL workaround didn't work for this reason, and I might be inclined to remove it.

The same problem is happening on another part of the website using a different menu structure. Some menu items with URL's show the mouse pointer, and others show the cursor. Please see: http://www.dracoblu.com/symbolistshow.html

Pat

[Ruth]

I tested and found that although it works in IE5.5, it won't work in Netscape or Firebird. I did get it to work but only if all the links opened in a new window, which I doubt you want to do. They are working on it.

Ruth