HELP - Margin Color

[parkieskywalker]

Hi,

I'm hoping somebody can help me. I'm trying to create a few pixels of white space between the border and the menu items. The only menu property that seems to do this is the "margin" property but this takes the color from the offbgcolor property which needs to be different.

Does anyone know if it is possible to set the color of the margin?...or any other way to acheive this effect?

Thanks,

Mark

[Ruth]

Yes, I know

The space between the items and the menu border, i.e. the margin area takes the offbgcolor, unless you code for menubgcolor. Then that space takes the menubgcolor

Ruth

[parkieskywalker]

Hi Ruth,

Thanks for your reply. I just tried it and it still doesn't seem to work. My menu_data.js file is as follows, but i'm still gettign a grey margin instead of a white one:

_menuCloseDelay=400 // The time delay for menus to remain visible on mouse out
_menuOpenDelay=100 // The time delay before menus open on mouse over
_followSpeed=5 // Follow scrolling speed
_followRate=50 // Follow scrolling Rate
_subOffsetTop=-1 // Sub menu top offset
_subOffsetLeft=7 // Sub menu left offset
_scrollAmount=3 // Only needed for Netscape 4.x
_scrollDelay=20 // Only needed for Netcsape 4.x

with(menuStyle=new mm_style()){
onbgcolor="#EEEEEE";
oncolor="#CC0000";
offbgcolor="#DDDDDD";
offcolor="#006699";
bordercolor="#999999";
borderstyle="solid";
borderwidth=1;
menubgcolor="#FFFFFF";
separatorcolor="#FFFFFF";
separatorsize="2";
padding=3;
fontsize="11px";
fontstyle="normal";
fontweight="normal";
fontfamily="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif";
menuwidth="160px";
pagecolor="#0099CC";
pagebgcolor="";
headercolor="#000000";
headerbgcolor="#FFFFFF";
image="leftnavmainarrow-off.gif";
overimage="leftnavmainarrow-on.gif";
subimage="leftnavsubarrow-off.gif";
onsubimage="leftnavsubarrow-on.gif";
subimagepadding="3";
}

with(menuStyleSub=new mm_style()){
onbgcolor="#EEEEEE";
oncolor="#CC0000";
offbgcolor="#DDDDDD";
offcolor="#006699";
bordercolor="#999999";
borderstyle="solid";
borderwidth=1;
menubgcolor="#FFFFFF";
separatorcolor="#FFFFFF";
separatorsize="2";
padding=3;
fontsize="11px";
fontstyle="normal";
fontweight="normal";
fontfamily="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif";
menuwidth="158px";
pagecolor="#0099CC";
pagebgcolor="";
headercolor="#000000";
headerbgcolor="#ffffff";
image="leftnavmainarrow-off.gif";
overimage="leftnavmainarrow-on.gif";
subimage="leftnavsubarrow-off.gif";
onsubimage="leftnavsubarrow-on.gif";
subimagepadding="3";
}

with(milonic=new menuname("Main")){
style=menuStyle;
margin=3;
top=94;
left=30;
alwaysvisible=1;
itemwidth="130"
aI("text= Home;url=home;status=Home;");
aI("text= About us;showmenu=About;");
aI("text= Fund information;url=fundprices;");
aI("text= News;url=news;");
aI("text= Insurance;showmenu=Insurance;");
aI("text= Retirement;url=retirement-irs;");
aI("text= Tools;showmenu=Tools;");
aI("text= Contact us;url=contact;");
}

with(milonic=new menuname("About")){
style=menuStyleSub;
margin=3;
aI("text= About Pearl;url=about;");
aI("text= Our history;url=about-history;");
}

with(milonic=new menuname("Insurance")){
style=menuStyleSub;
margin=3;
aI("text= Home Insurance;url=insurance-home;");
aI("text= Car Insurance;url=insurance-car;");
aI("text= Travel Insurance;url=insurance-travel;");
aI("text= Commercial Insurance;url=insurance-commercial;");
}

with(milonic=new menuname("Tools")){
style=menuStyleSub;
margin=3;
aI("text= Site map;url=sitemap;");
aI("text= Search our site;url=search;");
aI("text= How to...;url=howto;");
aI("text= Accessibility;url=access;");
aI("text= Legal;url=legal;");
}

drawMenus();

[Ruth]

Hi,

When I test your code I see the margin in both IE and FF. [That extra white outside the menu border is the background color of the screenshot]



Which browser are you not getting that in?

Ruth

[parkieskywalker]

That's it! Your screenshot is exactly what i'm after. I get a grey margin instead of white in IE6.

Could it be that my other menu files are out of date? I'm running version 5.03.

Mark[/img]

[parkieskywalker]

Just downloaded the latest version and it's fixed it! It must have been that then!

Thanks for all you help with this, much appriciated.

Mark

[Ruth]

Wow. You're in for some nice surprises as you use the new versions. The menu has had a lot of functionality added to it.

Ruth