Cool! If Dan can share some code that would help, but in any case I don't
think this is going to be a huge chunk of code.
Derek
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:52 AM, David Pollak <
feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:50 AM, marius d. <marius.dan...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm wondering if we shouldn't provide this by the means of a Lift
>> widget. Looks like a needed feature ...
>>
>> WDYT ?
>>
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
>
>>
>> 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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>>
>
>
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