Screen position and menu size

Poster: simon.hedberg __at__ vulkanresor
Dated: Monday February 4 2002 - 15:59:40 GMT

I'm using a page layout with a table with fixed width centered on the page.
On top of this I've put a menu with the same width.
To get the right width on the menu and having full control over the layout it would be really helpful to be able to set the menu items width individually. (I'm currently using a blank gif to size them up.)

Another issue is when the browser window is resized to a smaller width than the menu. The menu then stays centered on the screen putting items on the left side outside of the visible area of the browser window (without possibility to scroll to see them).
I suspect this might be solved in the 3.3 release though..

Re: Screen position and menu size

Poster: frostypepper __at__ hotmail.com
Dated: Saturday March 30 2002 - 22:37:56 GMT

To control menu positions and sizes absolutely we recommend using several individual menus instead of one big menu as you are doing. If you simply make each menu item it's own menu you can then control the size and position of each one seperately.
Cheers,
Yadin

Re: Screen position and menu size

Poster: dirk.einecke __at__ gmx.de
Dated: Sunday March 31 2002 - 17:35:53 BST

Since the layout I'm using is based on a table that centers on the page, it's not possible to set the positions with a fixed number (since it depends on the screen width of each viewer).
I haven't figured out a neat way of doing it anyway..

Thanks for the input anyway..

Re: Screen position and menu size

Poster: clarzoo __at__ ufl.edu
Dated: Monday April 1 2002 - 22:58:55 BST

Ok, next question. Can you use the new feature of 3.3.x to put your menu right in your table and be done with it? This should allow you to have the menu always where you want it, but from the sounds of things you may still need multiple 'main' menus, each one glued into a 'header' cell and set to the width of that table column. Use this command to glue a menu to a cell:

<td align=left valign=top height=30><script>PlaceMenu("mainmenu")</script></td>

Hope this helps, from what I understand of your site it should, it's just a little more work than most layouts

Cheers!
Yadin