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babybarbs
12-03-2002, 01:16 PM
hello guys-

i need some answers to my problems Pleeeease!

i am using a drop down menu using javascript, all works well and it looks great, but it only looks great on IE 6. ( haven't seen it on netscape yet-)

The menu drop down stuffs up when i test it on another IE version, for eg, IE 5.0 ior 5.5,

what can i do to make it compatible on all versions of IE?

The menu bar is exactly like the menu on www.sap.com.

It stuffs up when the menu drops down on one of the menu bar options- such as 'company' . It becomes too wide and not as it is on version 6( nice and reasonable size).

The font is small on the menu bar- so i doubt it has anything to do with font. Also, i 'do' have some code that initialises the menu but i really don't know if that works 100%.

Can you guys help me out, i would really appreciate it heaps!!!!

barbs. :)

can you guys look at the code as well?? ive attached it.
cheers.
BoR|S
12-04-2002, 01:45 AM
1) I don't see the attachment
2) Look in the DHTML scripts that come with FP, there is a drop-down menu there that supposed to work with any browser...
ByteWizard
12-05-2002, 05:46 AM
Could you please explain what you mean by "it stuffs up"?

Hope BabyBarbs is not an Aussie!:eek:
polliwogfrog
12-05-2002, 09:23 AM
I know exactly what the original poster means by "stuffed up"...I've seen it on the web too and am using same browser and menu drop down as they on my new pages. By "stuffing up" they mean that the graphics/wording that one would see in a preview
is remaining all lying together, overlapping one another at the very top where first menu bar would lie. It takes the browser about 2 to 3 seconds to unjumble everything. I would like to know what to do about this too, I don't know if its' the browser I am using IE 6) or the original code. Probably my browser?
polliwog
:joy:
DCElliott
12-05-2002, 09:35 AM
This will only work on IE and is a bit of a kludge.

If you enable page transitions, the menu may sort itself out before the viewer can see the mess.

To do a page transition, put this code one the line IMMEDIATELY after the <head> tag. It must be the first meta tag to work. <meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="blendTrans(Duration=1.0)" />The duration of the transition, you guessed it, is determined by the Duration= parameter.

There is another way to hide stuff momentarily, but I can't remember it right now. Oldtimer's disease, y'know.
ByteWizard
12-05-2002, 09:36 AM
Are you using <div>s and CSS? If so check the position parameter. Is the CSS inline or in an external file?
polliwogfrog
12-05-2002, 09:44 AM
Thanks DC!
Am going to place that on pages right now and see if I can fix that little bugger! (Thought I'd nver get that one worked out!)
And ByteWizard, am using <div> tags. ;)
thanks again guys,
poliwog
:joy:
DCElliott
12-05-2002, 09:55 AM
Babybarbs

The SAP site is using the HierMenus (http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/hiermenus/latest/) menuing system. I believe you have to have the proper CSS file as well to control how it appears. It is one of the most extensively developed and cross-browser tested menus available. Check out their web site for their extensive documentation.

Once again, post your HTML & CSS files for us if you still need help.
babybarbs
12-05-2002, 12:19 PM
thanks guys

but i have figured out my problem and its all fixed!
:)
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YAI!!!
DCElliott
12-05-2002, 05:31 PM
What was it and how did you fix it - you might save someone else similar grief in the future.

We are curious.

You have a moral obligation to provide a satisfactory close to this thread.

C'mon, spill it! :D
polliwogfrog
12-05-2002, 06:55 PM
I agree Barb! What did you do? Don't just ask and run!
And DC, it did not help. I am going to keep working on it. Any other ideas?
WHat do you mean about "inline" Byte? All on one line? Is it sensitive? I'll have to look at that too
polliwog
:joy:
babybarbs
12-05-2002, 07:20 PM
well it was really stupid, i guess after being on a computer 10 hours straight you start to really think funnily.
i was looking for something that i thought must be really complicated but it was right in front of my face the whole time.!

First of all, i had specified a special sub menu width which was hard to find in all that bloody code, and something i had totally forgotten i had done, but then i was just thinking logicaly and it just occured to me.
:)
I changed the extremely large width i had put in there ( a mistake ) and then tested it on IE 5.5, and the width was fine. But then it got me thinking well why the hell does it look well in IE 6 then? i mean, if the width was specified too large ( i had put something like width=543, yeah i know i know) then shouldn't it be too large in IE 6 aswell?. It must be a bug : o
oh well thats one for you guys to work out.

Im sorry for not being specific before in my posts. By "stuffs" up i ment that when the user points their cursor over the 'company' option (for eg) that the drop down menu become very wide and abnormal . This happened when i tested the page on anything lower than IE6.0

Anyways- i got rid of that menu bar, it looks crappy anyways, im working on a new and much much more improved one, so even though it was frustrating, it was a great lesson learned.

By the way, i AM an Australian, i was born here, but i have a European background, and also bytewizard i am a SHE!! not a he!
HAHA
catch yas.