[WSG] nav or menu?

2011-01-09 Thread designer
Hi LG, I am making a site (html5) which has a nav section at the top of each page. Some pages will also have a 'menu' which will be a short list of links to other pages in the site, and these will appear lower down in the content of the page. Instinct tells me that it is sensible to make

Re: [WSG] nav or menu?

2011-01-09 Thread David Laakso
On 1/9/11 7:44 AM, designer wrote: Hi LG, I am making a site (html5) which has a nav section at the top of each page. Some pages will also have a 'menu' which will be a short list of links to other pages in the site, and these will appear lower down in the content of the page. Instinct

Re: [WSG] nav or menu?

2011-01-09 Thread Jason Grant
This is a 'too early' post as HTML5 nav nor menu aren't really supported yet in any major browsers. So, we are speculating about how browsers might interpret these elements. You can read the HTML5 spec and see what is says about those tags, but at the end of the day browser implementation is

Re: [WSG] nav or menu?

2011-01-09 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
On 09/01/2011 13:32, Jason Grant wrote: This is a 'too early' post as HTML5 nav nor menu aren't really supported yet in any major browsers. So, we are speculating about how browsers might interpret these elements. You can read the HTML5 spec and see what is says about those tags, but at the

Re: [WSG] nav or menu?

2011-01-09 Thread Steve Faulkner
The nav element is the correct element to use in the case of site navigation links. You are correct about menu which when implemented will be like a desktop app menu. The nav element is not generally accessibility supported in browsers yet, which means it's semantics are not conveyed, but

[WSG] CSS variable navigational menu`

2011-01-09 Thread Goku San
Hi, I have the following navigational menu bar. The menu has multiple parent menu items. For the sake of the example, I only provide the first menu item. It has about five child menu items. This is a horizontal menu bar at the top of the ASP.Net website. What currently happens is when

Re: [WSG] CSS variable navigational menu`

2011-01-09 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Goku San gokus...@hotmail.com wrote: I have the following navigational menu bar. The menu has multiple parent menu items. [snip] What currently happens is when a user hovers over the Parent menu item, the child menu items appear below, horizontally, of

Re: [WSG] CSS variable navigational menu`

2011-01-09 Thread tee
On Jan 9, 2011, at 7:04 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: Make the parents the containing blocks for the absolute positioning of the children: #nav .sub { position: relative } http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/containingblock I hope you'll ensure that users who are not using a

RE: [WSG] CSS variable navigational menu`

2011-01-09 Thread Thierry Koblentz
These two essentially are the same. I am assuming the menu is controlled by a javascript, best practise is to use the absolute positioning to control submenu and use the toogle or mouseover to trigger the sub-level. I'm not sure this is considered best practice as keyboard users would have

Re: [WSG] CSS variable navigational menu`

2011-01-09 Thread tee
On Jan 9, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: These two essentially are the same. I am assuming the menu is controlled by a javascript, best practise is to use the absolute positioning to control submenu and use the toogle or mouseover to trigger the sub-level. I'm not sure this

RE: [WSG] CSS variable navigational menu`

2011-01-09 Thread Goku San
Hi, Thanks for your responses! I added the, #nav .sub {position: relative;}, removed the {display:none;} from my CSS file and from the ASPX page. Still not getting a solution. The #nav .sub {position: relative;} helped because it positioned the child elements directly below the

Re: [WSG] CSS variable navigational menu`

2011-01-09 Thread tee
On Jan 9, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Goku San wrote: Hi, Thanks for your responses! I added the, #nav .sub {position: relative;}, removed the {display:none;} from my CSS file and from the ASPX page. Still not getting a solution. The #nav .sub {position: relative;} helped because it

Re: [WSG] CSS variable navigational menu`

2011-01-09 Thread David Hucklesby
On 1/9/11 10:24 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: These two essentially are the same. I am assuming the menu is controlled by a javascript, best practise is to use the absolute positioning to control submenu and use the toogle or mouseover to trigger the sub-level. I'm not sure this is considered

[WSG] Out of Office Re: WSG Digest

2011-01-09 Thread Julien Viard
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