Problems with mainmenu and menuitem not showing..

[n1c]

Howcome the menu doesn't display the menuitem of a page with the same name as the link of the menuitem?

Hmm..?? I confused myself there..

I'll try to explain it like this.. when i load up the menu on a page called video.html the main menuitem named 'Media' doesn't display until I put the mouse over it.. and the same goes for the menuitem named 'Videos'.. the other two are visible even with the mouse not being over..

with(milonic=new menuname("Media")){
style=menuStyle;
itemwidth="100px";
aI("text=Audio;url=audio.html;");
aI("text=Videos;url=video.html;");
aI("text=Pictures;url=pics.html;");
}

so my guess i the menu is not displaying these things since this is the page that i am already viewing and will not need the link video.html. if this is the case.. how do i disable that function?


Take a look at http://www.headplate.com/test2/video.html

Thanks in advance for any help!

[fredlongworthhighschool]

It may be me but I can't see what's wrong. The menu appears and when I move the mouse over each one then the sub menu appears.

[John]

Looking at your page in XP Pro/IE6 I see all 3 items in the Media menu. No problems.

[n1c]

This is what it looks like for me with XP Pro and IE6

http://www.headplate.com/test2/images/menudisplay.gif

and

http://www.headplate.com/test2/images/menudisplay2.gif

/n1c

[John]

Given that 2 folks see it with no problems, we'd have to suspect your browser and/or OS for starters. Does everything have the latest updates, especially IE? I'm running 6.0.2800 with SP1 and 6 hot fixes.

[Hergio]

I am going to take a shot in the dark here. I am not 100% percent sure this it it because its not consistant across broswers but it may do the trick. In your style, you have pagecolor="black"; The background of your page also happens to be black. Pagecolor determines the color of the menu if you are on that page so change that and you will probably fix it.

[n1c]

Yes!! The pagecolor thing did the trick.

Thanks alot for your time and help!!


/n1c

[John]

Interesting that it showed up fine for some of the other folks here (including me!).

[Hergio]

Yeah John, thats why I was uncertain if that was the solution. The only things I can think of are, (1) there was no way to tell from the screenshots what browser he was using. Possibly our browsers were 'smart' enough to figure out that the colors were the same and change it up, I've seen windows do this sometimes and his browser didn't. THe other thing was possibly the pagecolor attribute was not working for us...maybe because when he was viewing his own page it may have been on a development server and we saw it on the production server so the URLs didnt match up right for us. I dunno, its tough to put your finger on it without getting into the specifics of this situation but at least its solved.

[John]

Bottom line is "solved" as you say, and that's what we're after.

[n1c]

The sceenshots were taken while viewing the page with IE 6.0 (not the latest sp and no fixes) and XP Pro SP1.

The pages were viewed from the actual server.

mentioning this in case soemone wants to dig deeper into this.. eventhough it's solved for me now..

/n1c

[John]

The sceenshots were taken while viewing the page with IE 6.0 (not the latest sp and no fixes) and XP Pro SP1.

I'd get that browser updated and patched in a hurry. True to form, M$ has some giant secruity holes in there (and probably more to be found). That copy is wide open for trouble.