position of submenus using Opera 5 - Mac platform

Poster: takema
Dated: Wednesday May 5 2004 - 6:04:45 BST

First of all: your site is awesome. I'm learning a bit of JS.

So moving on to my question:

I modified Horizontal Menu v 5.1 so that now it is a vertical menu by removing
"position=horizontal'

Position of main menu and submenus seem fine when tested using Mozilla 1.2.1 and Explorer 5. However, in Opera 5, the submenus are running out of the right edge of the page (main menu is located in the usual place: left side of page). To bring it in, I have to change

_subOffsetLeft=-3

to

_subOffsetLeft=-400

(Yikes!!! )

This change from -3 to -400 means that, in the other 2 browsers, the submenus have moved to the left edge of the page which makes it visually awkward.

Is there a way to make all 3 browsers happy?

(I don't have a website. I'm just using this in my Mac G4 (OS 9).)

Thanks.

Poster: John
Dated: Wednesday May 5 2004 - 15:01:23 BST

You mention you're running v5.1, which is down-level. You'll need to upgrade to the current v5.15.

We'll need to see the code. Post the relevant parts of your HTML (anything that has to do with the menu) and your _data file here using the [code][/code] tags.

Poster: takema
Dated: Saturday May 8 2004 - 2:22:47 BST

HTML code calls your JS in the head section. There is nothing in the body that refers to the menu.

I'll next paste what I've changed or added to the menu_data.js file (none of the other files have been altered in any way).

1. added itemwidth="40";

in this function

with(menuStyle=new mm_style()){
onbgcolor="#FFBA51";
oncolor="#FFFFFF"; //original ffffff use to check proper loading
offbgcolor="0";
offcolor="#FFBA51";
padding=10; //use 10
itemwidth="40";
align="left";
fontsize="100%";
fontstyle="bold";
fontfamily="ArialMT, Verdana, Tahoma";
pagecolor="black";
pagebgcolor="#CCFFCC"; //99CC99
headercolor="#000000";
headerbgcolor="#ffffff";
subimage="";
subimagepadding="2";
overfilter="Fade(duration=0.2);Alpha(opacity=90);Shadow(color='#777777', Direction=135, Strength=5)";
outfilter="randomdissolve(duration=0.3)";
}


2. removed orientation="horizontal";
3. changed top=10;
left=10;

in this function

with(milonic=new menuname("Main Menu")){
style=menuStyle;
top=160;
left=5;
alwaysvisible=1;
//orientation="horizontal";
aI("text=Home;url=http://www.milonic.com/;status=Back To Home Page;");
aI("text=Menu Samples;showmenu=Samples;");
aI("text=Milonic;showmenu=Milonic;");
aI("text=Partners;showmenu=Partners;");
aI("text=Links;showmenu=Links;");
aI("text=My Milonic;showmenu=MyMilonic;");
}

Thanks for the help!

Poster: Maz
Dated: Saturday May 8 2004 - 5:03:12 BST

subimage has no value, remove it if you are not using it, including subimage padding.

offbgcolor needs a proper value.

remove the quotes on numeric values ie itemwidth

Use the links below to help on styles, and try to remove styles you are not using. The cleaner the code the more likely it will behave in all browsers.

maz

Making the menu transparent

Poster: takema
Dated: Saturday May 15 2004 - 3:51:05 BST

Good point -cleaned it up

Regarding offbgcolor:

To have a transparent background, I thought I read someplace that the value for offbgcolor should be set at 0. If this is incorrect, how can the menu be set to be transparent so that an underlying image shows?

Once again, thanks!

Poster: Maz
Dated: Saturday May 15 2004 - 4:19:14 BST

Simple use "transparent"

0 won't work.

maz