Menu positioned in DIV, but behaving strangly.

Poster: ghis
Dated: Tuesday August 26 2008 - 0:07:28 BST

Hello there,

I have been using the menu for quite a while and I am now updating my website from simple html table into CSS divs.

And I am having problems as the menu is behaving very strangly.


The current website is:
http://www.wunderkammern.net/
Here the menu is in the left table. And it floats up and down with the page.

The new website is still under development but here is a test page (script is documented and easy to understand):
http://www.wunderkammern.net/css/template.htm
Here the menu is positioned exactly where I want.

I tried to make it floating as in the old site, but it does not work as it moved automatically in the centre. So I made it fixed. It all seems OK, but when I reduce the web browser window size (both in explorer and firefox) the menu jumps towards the bottom and sometimes even towards the left.

I have tried with the "embedded_main_menu.js solution" as well, but in that case the manu does not show at all.

Your help is highly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance
Cheers
Giuse

Re: Menu positioned in DIV, but behaving strangly.

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Tuesday August 26 2008 - 2:54:03 BST

Hi,

it is the overflow=scroll that seems to be forcing the menu to shift down the page in FF 3 and above. It doesn't do that in IE6, Safari 3 for pc, NN9, NN7.2, Opera 9

I will report it, but if you remove that the menu no longer follows down in FF3.

Ruth

Re: Menu positioned in DIV, but behaving strangly.

Poster: ghis
Dated: Tuesday August 26 2008 - 17:25:42 BST

Hi Ruth,

Thanks for your swift reply.

Yes, it seems the overflow option is the cause. I will be interested to know if the issue will be solved in the future.
In the mean while I will keep the Main Menu without overflow. The other sub menus do not seem to be affected by this.

Any idea why the floating option does not work either?

When I activate that, the menu goes immediately in the centre of the page.
It'd be great to find a solution as it was a nice option I would have liked to have on.

Many thanks again for your support!
Giuseppe

Re: Menu positioned in DIV, but behaving strangly.

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Tuesday August 26 2008 - 18:26:03 BST

Hi,

You'll have to give me a page with that option set up so I can test it and get back to you.

Ruth

Re: Menu positioned in DIV, but behaving strangly.

Poster: ghis
Dated: Tuesday August 26 2008 - 19:21:00 BST

Hi Ruth,

Yep sorry. I had put it in the same place:
http://www.wunderkammern.net/css/template.htm

btw, I'm using FF3.0.1 and EX7.

Cheers
G

Re: Menu positioned in DIV, but behaving strangly.

Poster: ghis
Dated: Thursday August 28 2008 - 13:17:50 BST

Hi Ruth,

Wondering whether you had a chance to understand why the floating option also does not work (i.e. the menu positions itself in the middle and not on top)?

Example at:
http://www.wunderkammern.net/css/template.htm

Many thanks
Giuseppe

Re: Menu positioned in DIV, but behaving strangly.

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday August 28 2008 - 14:29:43 BST

Hi,

Sorry, I'm still working on it trying to narrow down where the problem might be.

Ruth

Re: Menu positioned in DIV, but behaving strangly.

Poster: ghis
Dated: Thursday September 11 2008 - 21:56:02 BST

Hi Ruth,

Hope all well.

Wondering whether you had managed to find the bug.

Many thanks in advance
Giuseppe

Re: Menu positioned in DIV, but behaving strangly.

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday September 18 2008 - 3:29:34 BST

Hi,

I've been out awhile, sorry. But, I have been working on it and I cannot find out what is causing it. It is something in the css, that much I know but I can't seem to narrow it. I removed all the header stuff from the css, which of course removed the header and its background, but when I did that the menu went up to the top of its div where it belong, but though I tried removing different things in the header to see what was causing it nothing change the middle position. I have to think it is something working in conjunction with something else in the css. I am still trying to remove combination things to see if I hit it, but it doesn't look really good

If you have a pro license or above you might try using the http://www.milonic.com/support/ system for more direct help.

I'll keep trying.

Ruth