Can I have 3 drop down menus (2 different types) on 1 page?

ludicrousman · Post by **ludicrousman** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 4:52 pm

I have one horizontal top drop down menu and 2 on the left. The 2 on the left are the same style and the one on the top is different.
How can I embed them all? Do I need a different tag under the <body> tag?
I have each menu in a different folder (top , top_left , bottom_left )so I have no problem keeping them different. But how to I write the tags for under the <body> tag?

Post by **Ruth** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:17 pm

Hi,

This is not easy trying to do this without seeing the page.

What do you mean by embed? Do you mean call or are you putting them each in their own table? If you are just calling them, then just name each data file differently and set up your calls with the program files and then each data file by it's name and path, if they are embedded then it's the process of creating a main file and a data file for each menu. See how to do the table, and you'll need to use the old method not the new one since you would be putting 3 different files in the tables.

Ruth

ludicrousman · Post by **ludicrousman** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:24 pm

go here:
http://www.designbyrecroom.com/coa/work.zip
I zipped all the files.
index is obviously my home page and you'll see 3 empty tables.
Menu for the top is in the top folder and the html that calls it is in the base dir. titled menu.html
the other 2 tables will be in the empty tables on the left. Those menus are are located in the folders titled top_left and bottom_left.

thanks and I still love you...

- Kevin

Post by **Ruth** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:52 pm

Hi Kevin,

Well, I guess I must be getting more blind than I thought. I don't see any empty tables. So, could you tell me where the menus are supposed to go? Everything has images in them. Or are those to show where the menus go?

Ruth

Post by **John** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:15 pm

Bottom line is you call the menu code files only one time, regardless of the number of actual menus on the page. You would then have different _data files for each of your menus.

Since Ruth is already looking at your code, I'm sure she'll have a detailed answer for you soon.

ludicrousman · Post by **ludicrousman** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:39 pm

I forgot to upload the index file with the blank tables.
http://www.designbyrecroom.com/coa/
There it is...

Post by **Ruth** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:01 pm

Hi,

Well, try this, but there are some problems. It has to do with the rowspans and such which once the menus are in the area seem to space out or something. But, the menus are in where they belong and the data files are set up as they have to be.

link removed

Ruth

ludicrousman · Post by **ludicrousman** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:04 pm

Youre amazing. I've been working on it for over an hour using
http://support.milonic.com/beginners/ta ... /index.htm
as my guide. Never got it to work right. Youre great

Post by **Ruth** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:12 pm

Hi,

Given you are doing more than one menu in a table, you have to use the second method. The first won't work since you shouldn't call all the program files in each cell.

I would suggest that you make the 'design' images, the ones in the space cells, I'd suggest you make them wider and longer and then set them as a background image in css setting position top left. You could also set no-repeat if they are wide enough, or in the case of length you could set it as repeat-y which will only repeat down and not across. This means it doesn't matter if those cells expand a couple of pixels the background would still fit in it.

Ruth

ludicrousman · Post by **ludicrousman** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:53 am

It works when I launch it off my hard drive but not when I up load it.
Help
http://www.designbyrecroom.com/coa/index.html

ludicrousman · Post by **ludicrousman** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:04 am

On a Mac it looks great. On a PC there is a drop shadow where the menu on the right is. How can I get rid of this?

Post by **Ruth** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:09 am

Hi,

What menu on the right?

Ruth

Post by **Ruth** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:13 am

But, looking at your question and reference to IE, I believe it's the overfilter. That is an IE proprietary option, it is the filters and transitions that are set there and in the overfilter you'll note that one of those is shadow. If you don't want the shadow you can just eliminate that part of it. Those over and out filters will only show in IE. If you want to test different things try this interactive Demo for the IE filters and transitions. It allows you to apply the various ones to the menus on the page, to change the menu orientation so you can see how the filters look in horizontal and vertical setups.

http://support.milonic.com/demos/filters/index.htm

Ruth

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