CSS Dropdown menu for the header- With Categories!

[jettrue]

Hi Jade,

I have just installed your CCS Dropdown with the cherry zen template and am having a few teething problems.

The submenu's drop down and thats all a-ok, its just that now the site is no longer "fluid" and the menu bar is stretced accross the whole screen. Is it posible to keep the site fluid with the dropdown?

I tried searching this thread and forum and had no luck trying to find an answer, so if you could give me some help it would be mostly appreciated!!

Regards
Liam.

Could I see a link please?

[mauryg]

Jade,
I just ran into the problem of the empty submenus in IE7. Back in post #492 you said

This is a known issue, and I haven't been able to find a resolution to it. So you have to decide whether or not you can live with the issue. Sorry!

Any further resolution of the problem?

Second question: I tried to add a regular level2 link between the heading of the categories and the categories listing from the ul_generator.

<li class="submenu"><a href="<?php echo DIR_WS_CATALOG. '#'; ?>"><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_CATEGORIES; ?></a>
<ul class="level2">
<li class="submenu"><a href="<?php echo DIR_WS_CATALOG. 'index.php?main_page=page&amp;'.'id=30&amp;chapter=0'; ?>">Products</a></li>
</ul>
<?php
// load the UL-generator class and produce the menu list dynamically from there
require_once (DIR_WS_CLASSES . 'categories_ul_generator.php');
$zen_CategoriesUL = new zen_categories_ul_generator;
$menulist = $zen_CategoriesUL->buildTree(true);
$menulist = str_replace('"level4"','"level5"',$menulist);
$menulist = str_replace('"level3"','"level4"',$menulist);
$menulist = str_replace('"level2"','"level3"',$menulist);
$menulist = str_replace('"level1"','"level2"',$menulist);
$menulist = str_replace('<li class="submenu">','<li class="submenu">',$menulist);
$menulist = str_replace("</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n","</li>\n</ul>\n",$menulist);
echo $menulist; ?></li>

It wouldn't work. Any ideas?

[jettrue]

Jade,
I just ran into the problem of the empty submenus in IE7. Back in post #492 you said

Any further resolution of the problem?

Second question: I tried to add a regular level2 link between the heading of the categories and the categories listing from the ul_generator.

It wouldn't work. Any ideas?

Yeah, that won't work.....

You *could* try this, but I don't know if it will work either. open up includes/classes_categories_ul_generator.php and change this:

$parent_group_start_string = '<ul%s>',

to this:

$parent_group_start_string = '<ul%s> <li class="submenu"><a href="<?php echo DIR_WS_CATALOG. 'index.php?main_page=page&amp;'.'id=30&amp;chapter =0'; ?>">Products</a></li>',

[mauryg]

Nope, that didn't work. It killed the page right after the level1 header button.

[jettrue]

Nope, that didn't work. It killed the page right after the level1 header button.

YEAH, this will be difficult to do. Can you just create a "faux" category with the information you want to display as the first "category"?

[yellow1912]

If I remember correctly, this mod creates a tree (array) before turning it to display string. Wouldnt it be easier to just append the faux category branches into the tree instead of the output string?

[mauryg]

Jade,
I thought about that. Wondered if it could mess up some other things.
I'll give it a try and let you know what I see.
I sent you an email about my site. Are you williing to do a critique?

[epsports]

Jade,
This is a fantastic download, and generally prefer it to Paul's version due to how extensive the menu is. Is there any way at all though, in a similar way to Paul's, to have the top level categories as individual drop-downs, rather than under "categories". I only have 3 main categories of products, and would like to be able to have them as their own drop-downs, alongside the home, information etc etc in the horizontal menu.
I am not great with PHP so changing the code myself it proving a little difficult!
Best regards, and thanks in advance,
Chris

[mrogowski]

Hi everyone,

Firstly, I'm really loving this menu system! It makes things so much cleaner.

Unfortunately, I seem to be running into the same issue as the person in post #25 had - sort of. The glitch I have is where the menus are dropping behind a couple of flash images that are located near the top of my page.

Post #36 states to add z-index: 5; to the stylesheet.css file under the 'headerwrapper' section (I assume this is what he did). Tried that with no success.

If there is a workaround for this I'd really appreciate it.

Best regards,
Mark

[jettrue]

Hi everyone,

Firstly, I'm really loving this menu system! It makes things so much cleaner.

Unfortunately, I seem to be running into the same issue as the person in post #25 had - sort of. The glitch I have is where the menus are dropping behind a couple of flash images that are located near the top of my page.

Post #36 states to add z-index: 5; to the stylesheet.css file under the 'headerwrapper' section (I assume this is what he did). Tried that with no success.

If there is a workaround for this I'd really appreciate it.

Best regards,
Mark

Could I see a link please?