Transparent Menus Problem

Poster: Bourne
Dated: Wednesday June 18 2003 - 17:11:26 BST

Hi everyone,

Just a quick question to see if any knows how to make the Main Menu Transparent, but make the sub menus opaque???

Cheers

Bourne

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Tuesday July 8 2003 - 9:10:06 BST

Are you still looking for a solution to this? Do you want the main menu to be completely transparent, or just faded, like the effect used in most of the sample pages?

Kevin

Poster: Bourne
Dated: Tuesday July 8 2003 - 9:17:51 BST

What I want is the MAIN menu to be completely transparent (apart fromthe text of course), but all sub menus to be 80% transparent.

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Cheers,
B.

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Tuesday July 15 2003 - 20:36:51 BST

Hi Bourne,

Sorry it's taken so long to get back to you...

Here's what you can do with version 3: Create two style arrays, one for the main menu -- let's call is mainStyle -- and another for the submenus (you could probably use the one you are already using). In the mainStyle array, set the appropriate colors to "transparent" (using "" also works): e.g., make the Mouse Off Background Color amd Mouse On Background Color "transparent".

In the mainmenu array: (1) Use mainStyle in the 7th element. (2) Set the 5th element (Menu Border Width) to 0 to entirely remove the border (if you were to make the Border Color transparent in the style array, a default border seems to appear anyway, so you can set its width to 0 get rid of it entirely). (3) Make the 10th element (Effect Filter) blank, so that no effect is applied to the main menu in IE.

I assume your submenus already exhibit the fade effect that you wanted; if so, you should be able to use them as is (if not, give a holler and we can go over that next).

Hope that helps,

Kevin