Touble feeding more than one rawcss to the aI() function

Poster: restromania
Dated: Monday July 30 2007 - 4:13:48 BST

Hello!

I'm having a big problem feeding more than one rawcss parameter to the aI() function.

It's a pretty simple problem really, the aI is only taking one parameter:


If i try multiple rawcss or a "normal" string of parameters, then nothing happens. Just doesn't work:


It just seems sort of wierd or perhaps an oversight that rawcss can only handle a single set.

I mean, yes, of course I set up the rawcss string just fine in the style for that menu, that's not a problem:



It's just that when you send that only-one-allowed single rawcss for the aI() function, it cancels out all of the other rawcss declared in the style for the menu, which is, forgive me, a bit silly.

Any chance of a fix? Or am I missing some syntax here?

I could only suggest that the syntax for Milonic change for aI() to something like:


You can see my floating side menu at http://www.restromania.com/passports for example.

Thanks so much!

David Ciobanu

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Friday August 3 2007 - 8:22:05 BST

Hi,

I'll post this to Milonic. But, one thing I note is that in an aI string the menu uses ; between parameters, i.e. text=;url=; and so on, so if you need to use the semi-colon because you want more than one rawcss parameter wouldn't you have to somehow 'escape' that? I am not saying this will work, I was only wondering.... js is not my thing

Ruth

Ruth is Rather Clever!

Poster: restromania
Dated: Friday August 3 2007 - 10:35:16 BST

Thanks very much Ruth, it worked like a charm. You really are quite clever, it never occured to me to put a %3B instead of the ";" inside that one. I guess that will work for anything which needs multiple parameters then! GREAT!

I've now put for the rawcss string as follows for that aI() :



Notice that tags like <span>, <h3> and others work just fine. I use <span class=XXX> to control via a CSS the appearance of individual menu items.

You can see the results of YOUR GREAT TIP now at http://www.restromania.com/danubedelta!

THANKS SO MUCH, you're a treasure to Milonic!

David Ciobanu

Oh wait, no...

Poster: restromania
Dated: Saturday August 4 2007 - 2:52:12 BST

Oops, no, that %3B doesn't actually work, I spoke too soon, sometimes just the first one works with that, and I foolishly didn't test thoroughly

Anyways, I did get control of individual menu lines by using:



That works just fine and is a good workaround for the single parameter rawcss problem when u need to maniuplate the menu item text appearance on a line-by-line basis.

You can see i did the top line as big bold white, and the rest of the sections and menu items in slightly different fonts at http://www.restromania.com/

Ruth, thanks again for the help!

ENJOY!

David Ciobanu

Poster: John
Dated: Monday August 6 2007 - 19:37:00 BST

You should (I think) be able to just double up on the ; at the end of the rawcss definition; e.g. -

Note the ;; after the -1px. This is the same method used after something like a &amp; item. If it's at the end of a definition it needs to be &amp;; to continue with other items in the aI string.

The Double Semi-Colon is the ANSWER!

Poster: restromania
Dated: Tuesday August 7 2007 - 1:50:47 BST

Bingo John. Worked great, very smart of you to make that connection.



The double semi-colons worked great. We also use Romanian characters like "UPPER ARGE & # 3 5 0 ; " (the code makes an "s" with a cedilla on it) and in links for the url= tag such as "#Upper_Arge & # 3 5 1 ; _River_Region". (i had to put spaces in the codes to prevent the phpBB from translating to the real characters!!!).

Thanks to your tip John, I have simply replaced the semicolons with a double, which makes all of our special characters (such as "ă Î â ş ţ", called diacritice in Romanian) work just great!



Anyways, I strongly suggest that Milonic immediately include the double-semicolon trick in it's documentation. It's useful for both special characters used in menu items, as well as for multi-parameter properties for the aI() function.

Enjoy, and thanks again!

David

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Tuesday August 7 2007 - 5:23:43 BST

^5 John.

I knew it has something to do with semi-colons but I would never have thought of the double after the rawcss parameter

Ruth