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Making the change from old-style menus to CSS menus.

Thread began 7/02/2009 7:24 am by lon.winters127646 | Last modified 7/02/2009 8:43 am by lon.winters127646 | 1557 views | 2 replies |

lon.winters127646

Making the change from old-style menus to CSS menus.

For years, my navigation was a simple table with images and a Swap image behavior for the rollover. Very little need for cascading menus. Starting to work with this extension, and I'm wondering if I need to unlearn everything I know or if some things will transfer over.

1. Does each button have to be the same width?
2. Can the text link be eliminated and merely use images for the normal and over states, similar to the swap behavior?
3. Sometimes we have menu items on both sides of a graphic or logo. Can this graphic be incorporated into the menu, or can two menus be used on the same page?

Thanks!

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

1) The menu writer will make each "button" the same width for each layer of the menu. You can technically massage the code to define individual widths inline or have auto-sized widths in some cases but it can be difficult to get to work properly which is why it isn't supported natively.

2) You can control the css for each state in the wizard this includes setting and changing any attributes including background images, colors, or anything else.

3) Two menus can be used on the same page, or you can manually edit a menu to add an image inside. If you were to make a manual update you would have to repeat that update every time you updated the menu as it would be overwritten, wich may be the advantage of using two menus instead in that case.... of course the menus are easy enough to edit by hand using dreamweaver once created so personally I would probably update a single menu and commit to making future updates by hand as well once my design was generated.

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lon.winters127646

Thank you again Ray, that answers all my questions. Excellent and timely support, and it is much appreciated.

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