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Taken From The Forum: Help & Support for DHTML Menu Version 5+
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Last Updated: Saturday July 14 2012 - 06:07:27
Netscape alignment issue - 1px offline
Poster: Davidk
Dated: Tuesday May 25 2004 - 14:29:30 BST
Hi!
A couple of months ago I posted a probelm relating to my menu at the then "beta-version" of my Website. The Website has now been online for quite a while at http://www.rwi.lu.se and I today (25 May) updated to the latest version of the menu. However, the problem is still there.
It only occurs in Netscape and only with a few pages, namely that the menu jumps one px to the left of the main table. No matter how strange is might sound, it seems that the "longer" the pages are, or more correctly, if the page is "long" enough, the problem does not occur. However, it still occurs in the short pages. Compare for instance:
http://www.rwi.lu.se/institute/work.shtml - where is does occur, with http://www.rwi.lu.se/index.shtml - where is does not occur.
I got a lot of help in my last thread (http://www.milonic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3563&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=), where amonst other things, Kevin provided me with an "adjustor". However, while the adjostor adjusts every time, the page seems to recenter only when the shorter pages appear.
Please help me with this, or is in fact so that this problem is beyond help?
Thanks in advance,
David
P.S. Sorry for coming back with this old issue.
Poster: Andy
Dated: Wednesday May 26 2004 - 17:02:37 BST
Hi,
This has now been fixed and should appear in version 5.21 due out soon.
You'll need to adjust Kevins custom function, or maybe remove it altogether.
Cheers
Andy
Poster: Davidk
Dated: Wednesday May 26 2004 - 17:05:14 BST
Thanks alot! Excellent. I should probably just remove Kevins adjustor then. I will keep my eyes open for the new version.
You guy's at Milonic rocks!
D
Poster: Andy
Dated: Wednesday May 26 2004 - 20:24:04 BST
Oh I'm sorry Kevin, didn't mean to upset you or your code
Where did that code come from anyway, what's it for?
-- Andy
Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Wednesday May 26 2004 - 21:08:21 BST
Andy wrote:
Oh I'm sorry Kevin, didn't mean to upset you or your code
Yeah... sure [sob]. You're just a big brute...
Actually, I was just kidding (which I'm sure you knew).Quote:
Where did that code come from anyway, what's it for?
I whipped it up in February, when David first brought the phenomenon to lght. You can see it in this thread. It was meant to bump the menu over, onresize and onload, to sort of re-center it if its own initial centering was off a bit compared to other centered conent in some browsers (in this case by 1px in NS7). But I actually intended it as a temporary measure, for David and anyone else experiencing the same sort of thing. You'll notice in that thread, that in my reply prior to the one where I posted the code, I mentioned that
kevin3442 wrote:
I don't know if the behavior you see in NS7 results from the way NS7 centers things inherently, or if its the way the menu centers itself in NS7. Either way, Andy should be able to code around it pretty easily in the menu code (i.e, if it's NS7 and the available width is odd, subtract 1px from the left coordinate of the centered menu). Of course, that's easy for me to sit here and say, because I'm not the one who would have to make the change!
Meantime, I suppose there are some coding workarounds available to you. For example, you could implement an onresize event handler that sniffs the browser and if it's NS7 and the width is odd, then resize the window yourself to make it 1px narrower. Or, onresize if it's NS7 and the available width is odd (the window width is even), then reset the menu's position by 1px to the left. You could also call the same function onload, so that the adjustment is made if necessary when the page first loads.
Meantime, I suppose there are some coding workarounds available to you. For example, you could implement an onresize event handler that sniffs the browser and if it's NS7 and the width is odd, then resize the window yourself to make it 1px narrower. Or, onresize if it's NS7 and the available width is odd (the window width is even), then reset the menu's position by 1px to the left. You could also call the same function onload, so that the adjustment is made if necessary when the page first loads.
So, I'm not really feeling abused. It's good if the menu can take care of this inernally... which I guess is now the case!
Cheers,
Kevin