Sub-menu centered on main menu: how to do it?

Poster: rww
Dated: Monday March 15 2004 - 4:13:19 GMT

I'm using a horizontal menu that is nothing more than a floating bar from which another horizontal menu opens ( see it here ). The thing I'd like to accomplish is that the sub-menu opens centered on the floating bar. Since the whole thing is dynamically generated, a simple offset won't work as the width of the submenu will change.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks.
RWW

Poster: Maz
Dated: Monday March 15 2004 - 6:50:35 GMT

I find it a bit odd, how does anyone know the bar is a menu?
Be careful, its not advisable to use the word milonic in style names.

There was a post about positioning the submenu, but I think it was more javascript than I understood. The properities for it are listed in the milonic home page menu. but I think that was to create the same size submenu as the main menu. I suppose then you could use align=center.

It would be simpler to size each menuitem and submenu larger than the text. If the text is larger then the menu will grow.

maz

Poster: rww
Dated: Monday March 15 2004 - 12:28:02 GMT



Don't you usually mouse over something when you see it drift onto the page at load?



Huh? Care to explain that, please?

Thanks.
RWW

Poster: John
Dated: Monday March 15 2004 - 15:01:30 GMT


I don't. Also, the bar comes in so quickly if you're not paying close attention you won't even see it move in. Further, it looks like nothing more than a standard <hr>, definitely not a menu.



Pretty clear, I think. 'Milonic' should be considered a reserved word. I haven't looked at your code, but using it, other than where it is already used in the code you received, can cause problems.

Poster: rww
Dated: Monday March 15 2004 - 15:52:01 GMT


I guess my idea of a standard <hr /> is different from yours, but I'm not here to debate that point. In reality, that's one of the reasons I asked another question in a post titled "Sub-menu default open; close on move to other item" for which there are as yet no responses.


The only place it appears in the code is in lines such as:
with(milonic=new menuname("Bar")){

I was looking for why the person posted that, actually. The only other place it occurs is in the acknowledgment at the bottom of my pages and as a part of a CSS class, milonicon or milonicoff, in which case it is not the reserved word any more.

Thanks, but I still don't have an answer for my original question as to centering the sub menu, or to the other post about an initially visible sub menu that either fades after a set amount of time or when one of the links is clicked.

RWW

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Monday March 15 2004 - 20:59:14 GMT

Yes, there is a way to do it. Maz was right on there being a topic and I'm in the same boat with it being pretty darned above my head! Here's a link to the topic. http://www.milonic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3632

Also, there is a new section under the main site, under support/menu quick reference guides. It's called Methods and Functions. I think some of what was posted in that topic is there. que tenga buena suerte!

Ruth

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Thursday March 18 2004 - 0:30:22 GMT


Damn! How long has that been there?! And here I am still poking around in the code. Guess it pays to check things out more often!

Rww --

I'm working my way through some older posts. On your site, I don't see the "floating bar" that was referred to earlier in this thread. I'm asuming you took a different approach? Is your centering issue still an issue?

I also haven't come across the "intially visible sub menu" thread yet, but I'll probably see it as I continue. Is it still an issue?

Kevin

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday March 18 2004 - 0:54:37 GMT

Kevin, it's HERE for the submenu open on load and fading out or having other submenus being able to open over it when a call comes from the main menu.

Ruth

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Thursday March 18 2004 - 1:00:32 GMT

Thanks Ruth. I'll have a look.