CSS Dropdown menu for the header- With Categories!

[Get Em Fast]

GetEmFast!

Thanks for speaking up and setting me straight! I certainly wasn't trying to ruffle any feathers! ;P Just looking for an opinion from a trusted designer.

-cj

Oh, no, Chad.......I didn't mean it to come out that way (mean sounding), I was just simply saying that some people can have problems........well, even chewing their food right, let alone trying to install a mod on ZC, hence the rumors of the bugs. I manipulated this mod to use images, uploaded it as an update, and inherited all the support issues that goes with it,........ I think.
Where people have the most problems with this, is when they change to a different image(s), they just don't understand that if their images aren't the EXACT same size as the ones that I included, then they have to change other things, like width, height, margins, and such.
But, I never meant, in ANY way to make it sound like I was throwing flames, this morning.......sorry if it came out that way.

[chadderuski]

Oh, no, Chad.......I didn't mean it to come out that way (mean sounding), I was just simply saying that some people can have problems........well, even chewing their food right, let alone trying to install a mod on ZC, hence the rumors of the bugs. I manipulated this mod to use images, uploaded it as an update, and inherited all the support issues that goes with it,........ I think.
Where people have the most problems with this, is when they change to a different image(s), they just don't understand that if their images aren't the EXACT same size as the ones that I included, then they have to change other things, like width, height, margins, and such.
But, I never meant, in ANY way to make it sound like I was throwing flames, this morning.......sorry if it came out that way.

LOL. I didn't take it mean or flaming at all! And it was perhaps unfair of me to ask the way I did instead of doing my own research or trying for myself. Never enough time in a day! I'm speaking with the designer of above said site in 2 hours and was "cutting corners" so to speak. I promise I'll give your mod a try!

Believe me, I know what your saying. I've been a programmer since 1980-ish! But this isn't the place for telling war stories! :)

[Get Em Fast]

LOL. I didn't take it mean or flaming at all! And it was perhaps unfair of me to ask the way I did instead of doing my own research or trying for myself. Never enough time in a day! I'm speaking with the designer of above said site in 2 hours and was "cutting corners" so to speak. I promise I'll give your mod a try!

Believe me, I know what your saying. I've been a programmer since 1980-ish! But this isn't the place for telling war stories! :)

........Smiles, and replies, "Sure, it is....right around the corner, at the Pub, I'll even buy the first round...."

Seriously though, if you've been programming since the 80's, you'll have NO problems with this mod. And if you do, we're all here for ya'.

[Zinfandel]

Hey chadderuski,

You may want to know that while I was deciding on which way to go, I had both the dropdown and the flyout menus going under IE6 at the same time and they both worked just fine.

And as for...

I noticed in IE6 (and probably IE5 as well) that there is a problem with the menu with pages that have a <select> active .... meaning the select box shows through the menu.

Atleast you're getting some answers, I posted a concern about that very same issue and might as well have spoken to my hand.

Thanks to you I got somewhat of a solution to think about.

I've been coding since 1982, COBOLII, CICS, DB2 SQL, all mainframe.
But I wouldn't know an object if it came from the orient.
During the last two years,I tried my hand in C#, Java, ASP, and now PHP. My brains are toast. I need help with the hard stuff, like adding a mod into my ZC without getting a headache.

Let's keep up this community orientation with a smile for as long as we can stand it. It's good for everybody.

[Get Em Fast]

I'm sorry you're feeling unloved Z. Hey, we're all "The Zen Family", and we love you......I would have tried to help......you know I would, if I hadn't been sick.
And as far as the Flyout Menu & the Dropdown menu working together......Oh, yea.....like ebony & ivory! At least in IE 7 (now IE 6 confirmed) & FF.

[chadderuski]

Hey Jade!

I have an idea to solve my LOOOOOOONG sub-categories problem (meaning a lot of mouse scrolling on the page).

What if we were able to set a max number of items to display in a fly out menu so that the scroll bar would attach itself to the side of that menu when it is too long??

I am thinking this would be doable by setting a height to the flyout menu somewhere in the css.

What do you think?

[jettrue]

Hey Jade!

I have an idea to solve my LOOOOOOONG sub-categories problem (meaning a lot of mouse scrolling on the page).

What if we were able to set a max number of items to display in a fly out menu so that the scroll bar would attach itself to the side of that menu when it is too long??

I am thinking this would be doable by setting a height to the flyout menu somewhere in the css.

What do you think?

I don't know that a css menu would make a scroll bar. Its just css. My advice to you would be to either try and condense categories more, or set it so that only the main categories drop down. To do that, simply open up includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php and change $max_level to 1.