I'm wondering if we shouldn't provide this by the means of a Lift
widget. Looks like a needed feature ...
WDYT ?
Br's,
Marius
On Mar 19, 6:43 pm, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Derek Chen-Becker
> <dchenbec...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > This is something that has been asked before, but I don't think there was
> > anything out there. I think that this would be a really nice feature,
> > particularly if it could leverage the existing jQuery stuff. IIRC, the
> > built-in Menu snippet doesn't render children at all unless the parent is
> > the current selected page, so we would have to either modify that or we
> > could code up a new MenuBar snippet that renders a "bar" instead of a UL
> > like the current one.
>
> There's a way to ask for the entire menu rather than just the current view.
> Dan O'Leary from Enthiosys did this for Innovation Games Online. I've
> pinged him to see if he can share some of the code.
>
>
>
>
>
> > Derek
>
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:21 AM, DavidV <david.v.villa...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >> I'm wondering if there is a built-in way to create drop-down menus
> >> from a horizontal navbar using the Menu.builder method. These are the
> >> relevant sections of my current template:
>
> >> <title>My Title<lift:Menu.title /> </title>
> >> <lift:StyleSheet.entryForm />
> >> <lift:StyleSheet.fancyType />
> >> <script id="jquery" src="/classpath/jquery.js" type="text/
> >> javascript"/>
> >> <script id="json" src="/classpath/json.js" type="text/javascript"/
>
> >> <style>
>
> >> /* <![CDATA[ */
> >> #navbar ul {
> >> margin: 0;
> >> padding: 2px;
> >> list-style-type: none;
> >> font-weight: bold;
> >> text-align: center;
> >> background-color: #C3D9FF;
> >> }
>
> >> #navbar ul li {
> >> display: inline;
> >> }
>
> >> #navbar ul li a {
> >> text-decoration: none;
> >> padding: .2em 1em;
> >> color: #000;
> >> }
>
> >> #navbar ul li a:hover {
> >> color: #fff;
> >> background-color: #000;
> >> }
>
> >> /* ]]> */
>
> >> </style>
> >> </head>
> >> <body>
>
> >> <div class="container">
> >> <div style="text-align: center">
> >> <br/>
> >> <h1 class="alt">
> >> Welcome to the Genomas DNA Banking Database </h1>
> >> </div>
> >> <hr/>
>
> >> <div id="navbar">
> >> <ul>
> >> <lift:Menu.builder />
> >> </ul>
> >> </div>
>
> >> <div class="column span-24 last">
> >> <lift:bind name="content" />
> >> </div>
>
> >> I have a couple links on my navbar that have sub-menu links. I have
> >> constructed them in my Boot.scala file like this:
> >> List(Menu(Loc("SampleLogging", List("samples", "samplelogs"),
> >> "Browse Sample Logging"),
> >> Menu(Loc("Individuals", List("individual", "individual"),
> >> "Patient Demographics")),
> >> Menu(Loc("Requisition", List("requisition", "requisition"),
> >> "Requisitions")),
> >> Menu(Loc("Samples2", List("samples", "samples"),
> >> "Samples")))) :::
> >> List(Menu(Loc("EditSamp", List("samples", "edit"), "Edit",
> >> Hidden))) :::
>
> >> ...and so on.
>
> >> I would like to use some built-in tools to be able to make these sub-
> >> menu items drop downs from the "parent" menu item without having to
> >> build an entirely new complex table-based template. Does anyone know
> >> of a way to accomplish this?
>
> >> Thanks,
> >> David
>
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