Relative (percentage) widths in menu headers

Poster: Crimson
Dated: Wednesday May 21 2003 - 18:51:24 BST

I have 7 drop-down menus at the top of my page, and I need the overall menu width to span 100% across the page. I set the following and it didn't do any good.



Thanks in advance for any advice.

Christine

Poster: Crimson
Dated: Friday May 23 2003 - 0:33:28 BST

*pout* anyone??

Poster: Crimson
Dated: Friday May 23 2003 - 23:30:19 BST

Never mind. I changed the style of the site a little so I wouldn't need to stretch. I'm thinking there is no way to stretch these menus and that's why no one responded.

Menu headers width

Poster: Non
Dated: Thursday July 3 2003 - 13:12:19 BST

True: as fas as I know you cannot set a width (absolute or relative) for the header part of the menu. I hope this will be possible soon!

Poster: Hergio
Dated: Thursday July 3 2003 - 19:28:24 BST

I know you said you changed things around so you didnt need to do this, but a trick I used to fake it was to use graphics. Have the header of your menu (or the main horizontal menu) have no borders whatsoever, just separators inbetween the menu items. Then create a banner for your site that has a horizontal bar thats about the height of your menu stretching the entire width of the page. I generally use a 600px main graphic, a 1 pixel width stretching graphic and then a 100px end graphic as my banner. That way the page can stretch and still look ok. Then set your menus background color to the same of the banner graphic's horizontal bar. The menu will appear to stretch completely across the screen, when in fact its just your banner and the menu stops half way.

Give it a try if you'd like. Its not that difficult to do.