Dear Francky,
I'm impressed by your developerscorner/css page:
* Qck&Drty raw testpage
<http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/css-discuss/test-inner-new.htm>
This is not what I expected to see happen! Thanks so much for taking the
time. This proves that the style sheet is what is messing up the looks of
the menu.
I received another post privately that pointed out that this tool depends
entirely on Javascript, and if one has it turned off there will be no menu
showing at all. This is totally unacceptable. Also, the test page does not
validate, another no no.
I tried a suckerfish menu from listmatic with poor results, and then tried
one from HTML dog. That's when I decided I needed a tool to help me.
Unfortunately this tool creates nice menus, but it's only good if you don't
care if everyone is able to see them.
I think my biggest enemy is the style sheet I have in place. I copied it
from another larger site that I manage, that has more bells and whistles. I
think I may hack it down to the bare bones and then try the suckerfish menu
again. The latest one I found that looks nice and easy to set up is at
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/auto_hide/index.htm
Projectseven has a drop down menu tool for sale which makes use of an
unordered list. They claim it will be standards compliant. All their tools
are add-ons for Dreamweaver 8, Unfortunately I use Frontpage 2003, but
lately have wondered if I should make the switch.
Can you or any other readers recommend a good dropdown menu tool that won't
bust the bank, but will deliver an accessible menu?
Thanks again,
Tom Rogers
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-----Original Message-----
From: francky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 7:38 AM
To: THOMAS ROGERS
Cc: 'CSS Mailinglist'
Subject: Re: [css-d] Can one disable a style sheet just for a menu?
THOMAS ROGERS wrote:
>For a long time now I've wanted to learn how to create drop down menus. I
>tried many CSS based methods but never got them working, so last Friday I
>decided to give the Sothink dhtml menu tool a try.
>
>Using the tool as an ad in to Frontpage, I created an include page at
>http://www.ncmhcso.org/includepages/include.htm. I created a DWT using the
>above include page, and then the final product is at a test page
>http://www.ncmhcso.org/test-inner.htm. Take a look at this and you will
see
>that the menu is much more expansive than the include page. I think what's
>happening is that it's being governed by the style sheet. I'd prefer to
>control the menu using the tool, and I'm fearful of making major changes to
>the style sheet. Is there a quick and easy way to disable the style sheet
>just for the menu?
>
>
Hi Tom,
AFAIK, I'm afraid not: the styles of the script are heavily interfering
with the page styles, and it is a rather complicated (&: long loading!)
script.
Maybe you can isolate the included part totally from the normal page,
use it as a separated page, and put it in place by an iframe. Then the
main style cannot influence the menu styles.
* Qck&Drty raw testpage
<http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/css-discuss/test-inner-new.htm>
Additional styling of the include and the normal page will be needed (I
hope it is possible).
But imho I think I should prefer a Suckerfish like css drop down. :-)
Did you try the examples from Listamatic2 already?
* http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic2/
Success and greetings,
francky
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