CSS menu writer, blocks other SpryAssets

I have technical proglem with menu writer. As soon as I use it on a page, any other SpryAssets that I ad on that same page don't work, and that's really bad for my case. I am using dreamweaver CS4, I can only imagine that this might be a broken link somewhere, but I have no idea where to solve. Could you please provide me with a solution of some kind!

Romeo

Do you have a link to the page that is experiencing this problem? What Spry Assets do you have on the page before the menu is applied and what is the menu you are working with? Please post back with these details so we can look into this further.

I am using one of the horiozontal pre-made menu but modified just the colors, text and font to fit with my other designs. And after the moneu was on the page, all of my pages, I tried to ad a Spry open pannel, and put it's mode to all closed, so that the user can decide if they want to open it or not,

the spry on the page, but the function, self-close doens't work, it is appearing open as defaut, even though I am setting it to close.

index.html (go to this site to see the menu)

I was able to make a test page with a menu applied to it and a spry collapsible panel. I set the default of the panel to be closed. When I test this page the spry panel defaults to a closed state and when I click on it the panel opens.

When I viewed the pages on your site I was able to interact with the menu on the page but I did not see the spry objects to test. What is the specific menu you have applied to the page and what is the specific spry object on the page? I will do some more testing to see if I can find an issue. On the site you posted a link for how can I see this behavior occurring?

The place on the page, where it is written tab, that suppose to be spry collapsible panel,
archiv.html

and I clearly set the default to close for all. I tried the same panel on another page without the menu and it worked, so far as I know, there only reason is the presence of the menu and I would like to know how and why.


R

Looking at your source you do not appear to have initialised the collapsible panel

You need to add this after the collapsible panel </div>

<script type="text/javascript">
var CollapsiblePanel1 = new Spry.Widget.CollapsiblePanel("CollapsiblePanel1");
</script>

For more information see point 8 at collapse_panel/

regards

Jon

that solved it, thanks

R.

Good luck with your site

regards from a a very cold England

Jon

How did you get the 1px white lines between the buttons. Only between and not on both sides?

Cheers
Denis

Denis,

You could do this a number a ways... probably the easiest way is to just add a border of 1 px set to your desired color (white in this case). Then on your last menu item, you could make it so the menu spans the entire width and therefore the final 1 px white border becomes part of the "gutter" assuming you have a white gutter.

The other way to do this is to calculate the width of your entire menu when your finished adding all the buttons you will add. Let's say for example your background is grey... so you have a div holder that is the same height as your menu will be and this holder spans the entire width and has a background color set to the grey you want. Then nested inside that, you will have another div which will hold your menu. So to get the desired effect, you first get the width of the entire menu system. Pretend that with the borders, your menu width comes to 704 px. To cover up the last border, you would just need to make the "nested" div which holds the menu 703 px and then set the overflow to "hidden".

So in the end, your code looks like this (please note, I am using arbitrary names for example purposes only):

<div id="menuHolder">
        <div id="menuFocus">
       <?php include_once ("menu"); ?>
        </div>
</div>

Now for the styling:

#menuHolder {
     width: 800px;
     height: 40px;
     background: #333333;
}

#menuFocus {
     width: 703 px;
     height: 40px;
    overflow: hidden;
}

Cheers,

Brian