?How-to right align vertical menus

Poster: cameron
Dated: Tuesday October 19 2004 - 22:11:17 BST

Hi,

I've got some fairly standard vertical menus but the web designer my client is using designed the menus so that they are all right-aligned.

That is, the box of the submenus appear right-aligned to the box of the primary menu. The default appears to be left-alignment.

There is some sort of global variable in menu_data.js called
_subOffsetLeft which would be useful but changing its value doesn't
appear to do anything and I can't find any documentation on it.

Thanks!

Cameron

Poster: Maz
Dated: Wednesday October 20 2004 - 0:16:45 BST

That's a bit complicated for me, but search the forum, for previous threads.

I'm confusing left and right, but probably what you are looking for is

openstyle="rtl";

maz

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Wednesday October 20 2004 - 1:27:33 BST

Maz is right... placing openstyle="rtl"; in the definition for each submenu ought to do the trick (assuming I understand the goal). E.g.,

Cheers,

Kevin

Poster: cameron
Dated: Wednesday October 20 2004 - 1:50:12 BST

Thanks!

Sadly, that didn't seem to work for me. The menus continue to be
left-aligned. Let me see if I can draw ASCII pix:

<pre>
Left-aligned:
+------------+
| menu1 |
+------------+
+------------------+
| submenu1 |
+------------------+

Right-aligned:
+------------+
| menu1 |
+------------+
+------------------+
| submenu1 |
+------------------+
</pre>

Cheers!

Cameron

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Wednesday October 20 2004 - 2:50:21 BST

Are you asking to know is it possible to have the right border of the main menu and the right border of the submenu be in alignment?

Ruth

Poster: cameron
Dated: Wednesday October 20 2004 - 2:51:29 BST

yup

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday October 21 2004 - 3:41:08 BST

I think you can do that using top="offset= whatevernumber"; needed, and left="offset=whatevernumber"; You can use negative numbers here. You would use these positions in the submenus you want to position from the main menu item. This is only a suggestion because without seeing the page and where the menu is and the submenus are supposed to open there's no way to know if the anti-collision part of the program will be called into use or if something else will cause a problem with this. There is also a section on methods and functions. I know there are things to do with gpos, getting a position and spos, setting a position but I don't really know if they refer to anything you would need.

http://www.milonic.com/menu_methods.php

Ruth

Poster: cameron
Dated: Thursday October 21 2004 - 3:51:17 BST

ack! sorry! totally forgot to mention that I am using relative positioning (inside of a table td) so I can't use absolute positioning via top/left to move the submenus.

thanks for the suggestions, tho!

Poster: Maz
Dated: Thursday October 21 2004 - 10:10:20 BST

I think you can use the table padding, and maybe menualign="right";
then on submenus right="offset=*px"; top="offset=*px"; (*=number of pixels) The offset is from the main menu.

maz