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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 - 06:07:38

Menu disappears on postback in IE 6.0


Poster: pawline
Dated: Wednesday July 13 2005 - 21:42:24 BST

I am using multiple testing web browsers (Firefox 1.0, Netscape 7.2, IE 6.0 sp1) and am only having major issues with the menu working correctly on IE 6.0.

The menu works great on IE; up until there is a postback from the client browser. For example, I have an ASPX search page (http://www.pawline.com/test/results.aspx) that lists items in a datagrid. When an IE user induces a postback, the menu disappears on the screen (no errors seem to be raised). Now, if I do the same scenerio in FireFox/Netscape/etc. it works as expected.

To recreate the problem on my website: Using IE, search for "102" on the top left search box and click on "Find" link/button.

Would someone be able to take a look at my website/code to see what the problem might be?

Thanks in advance,
Chris
http://www.pawline.com


Poster: slackbladder
Dated: Wednesday July 13 2005 - 22:45:09 BST

Hi Chris,

Just a guess - try removing:

menuwidth="100%";
menualign="right";

replace with:

screenposition="right";


Poster: pawline
Dated: Wednesday July 13 2005 - 23:14:26 BST

I changed those settings, but it still seems to be causing the same problem. The weird thing is that after the menu disappears on a postback, if you refresh the browser, the menu reappears. It seems to appear/disappear without any javascript errors. Hmm?


Poster: Andy
Dated: Wednesday July 13 2005 - 23:23:41 BST

Hmmmm, just tried it with IE6 and it worked OK.

We have had problems before with postbacks when the menu is embeded inside a table. However, doing as slackbladder suggests should fix the problem.

Cheers,
Andy


Poster: pawline
Dated: Wednesday July 13 2005 - 23:31:07 BST

If it works for you then it might just be my computer being retarded. That'll happen.

Thank you both for replying promptly; and hats-off to the milonic team, this is the best web-program I've ever ran.

Sincerely,
Chris


Poster: slackbladder
Dated: Thursday July 14 2005 - 6:43:48 BST

Just so you know (Andy/Chris) on MAC IE 5.2.2 the position of the menu is over to the left on every page (near the logo) - but as IE is no longer being supported by Microsoft most MAC users will be moving browsers (FF, Safari, etc).

Doing what I suggested above (screenposition) did work on both IE 5 and FF on MAC.

Cross-browsers = nightmare!


Poster: pawline
Dated: Thursday July 14 2005 - 16:30:57 BST

Actually, after re-reading my post, I realized that I forgot to include the event that raises the menu error. If you could look this over again, I'll try to be more descriptive:

To recreate the problem on my website (http://www.pawline.com): Using IE, search for "102" on the top left search box and click on "Find" link/button.

Once you have returned the results, click on the next page ("2") to scroll through the resultset. THAT is where the menu disappears on me.

See if anyone has the same problem I'm having (a disappearing menu act).


Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday July 14 2005 - 19:25:05 BST

Hi,

I take it the Disc Blades, etc. at the top is the Milonic menu? If so, it is there on the first page of that search, and it scrolls down, and it is there on all the other pages I clicked through using the numbers at the bottom. I'm on IE5.5

Ruth


Poster: pawline
Dated: Friday July 15 2005 - 0:26:19 BST

Yes, the Disc Blades, etc was where I put my milonic menu at. If it worked for you, that makes me feel a lot better. Thanks for double-checking for me Ruth, it is appreciated.

-Chris

I'm getting the same error


Poster: johnnymac
Dated: Tuesday August 22 2006 - 20:13:21 BST

I have IE 6.0 and I get the same issue you described Chris.

In fact, I'm doing the same thing on a website I'm designing and am getting the same issue. I've tried a few things like moving the references inside the <body>, in the <head>, inside the <form> but no luck.

I tried in Firefox and it works nice.

I was wondering if this could be looked at again as an open issue.

Thanks!
John Mac


Poster: Andy
Dated: Wednesday August 23 2006 - 12:07:22 BST

Have you got a URL that we can see?

It helps us to be able to see the problem and the code


Poster: johnnymac
Dated: Wednesday August 23 2006 - 12:26:35 BST

The URL is the same as Chris's above. Its just that I'm using IE 6.0 and Ruth was looking at it with IE 5.5.

I don't have a URL you can look at right now. I'll try to get something together soon.


Poster: Andy
Dated: Wednesday August 23 2006 - 17:36:37 BST

Hi,

Do you need Smartnav?

If not try disabling it and then let me know if it works or not