wierd things happening to the menu layout in Netscape 7.1

Poster: peterarcari
Dated: Wednesday December 17 2003 - 20:59:12 GMT

When you visit this page:
http://www.uvl.ca/peter/
the menu works just fine, but when you click on "find a location near you", which brings you to here:
http://www.uvl.ca/peter/member.htm
the menu rollovers suddenly start showing up in random places and some of them don't follow the menu width command.

What is the difference? Why does it work on one page and not the other?
This problem does not happen in IE or Netscape 4.08, but it happens in the latest Netscape 7.1.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Wednesday December 17 2003 - 22:30:31 GMT

I can't get the effect you describe. What OS are you using?

Kevin

Poster: Andy
Dated: Wednesday December 17 2003 - 23:02:50 GMT

Try moving your <CENTER> tag down to after the menu.

We are looking at this but in the meantime, the above will work for now.

Cheers
Andy

Is it possible to post or send the sceenshot?

Poster: peterarcari
Dated: Thursday December 18 2003 - 0:10:17 GMT

I'm in XP but I believe someone has emailed me about the problem who was using Win2K. We both see the problem.

Is it possible to post or send the sceenshot? It's quite eratic what is happening.

Poster: Andy
Dated: Thursday December 18 2003 - 7:25:41 GMT

You can add a screen shot to this forum post if you like.

-- Andy

Check out these screen shots

Poster: peterarcari
Dated: Thursday December 18 2003 - 15:20:17 GMT

I could not figure out how to upload screenshots so I made a webpage with a few shots and a description. Allow time for the 4 inline images to load as they are about 100kb each. Please let me know what you think.

http://www.peterarcari.com/milonic.htm

a note about the menu code

Poster: peterarcari
Dated: Thursday December 18 2003 - 15:24:17 GMT

In case this is important, I want to be clear that the menu is set to relative to allow it to float with the table. This is the same for the homepage which works fine.

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Thursday December 18 2003 - 21:27:17 GMT

Hi Peter,

I just had a look at your code and noticed that , at least the way it is now, you still have the <center> tag above the menu. Did you try Andy's suggestion... moving the <center> tag so that it occurs after the loading of the .js menu source files? It looks to me like, in your screen caps, the unnaturally wide submenu is trying to center itself, so I think you might waht to give Andy's suggestion a shot.

I've seen other odd behavior when embedding menu code in a table. So, another possibility to consider would be to remove your main menu code from the table cell and put it in your menu_data.js file along with your other menu definitions. You could use a combination of three of the menu's built-in positioning properties - screenposition, top, and a left offset - to place the menu where it is now, and still have it track when the page is resized.

Hope that helps,

Kevin

That's the fix

Poster: peterarcari
Dated: Friday December 19 2003 - 17:19:49 GMT

I tried moving the <center> tag down and that has solved the problem. I am very thankful for the great work on your end. Thanks for your help.