Recent Questions
Q: What I try to make is a menu dhtml with items having a border of only 1 px, also between the menu items. However it seems that Deluxe menu draws a 1 px line around every menu item giving an effective border line of 2 px between the area where the items touch each other. I want to have 1 px border also on the areas where the items touch each other.
Any suggestion how to fix this?
A: If you want to have the 1px border between the items only you canuse separators.
Please, see the following parameters:
//--- Separators
var separatorImage=""; //for subitems
var separatorWidth="5";
var separatorHeight="100%";
var separatorAlignment="right";
var separatorVImage="images/public/separator.gif"; //for the top items
var separatorVWidth="1";
var separatorVHeight="100%";
var separatorPadding="";
You should set a separator in the menuItems, for example:
var menuItems = [
["Home","index.cfm", , , , , , , , ],
["-"],
["About Us","about.cfm", , , , , , , , ],
];
Q: Is there any way to get around the ActiveX control warning every time I load the website from the CD? I think Internet Explorer doesnt like the menu system.
A: You should adjust your browser settings.
Tools/Internet Options/Advanced Options/
and set
"Allow active content from CDs to run on My Computer".
There is no way to enable these preferences automatically, in othercase there are no reasons to create security preferences.
Q: Then it is a bit annoying now that the menu bars in java does not work for
- Firefoxs
- Safari
For either Windows nor Mac.
According to your browser support this should work.
A: Links in your menu bars in java don't work in Firefox.
Now you have:
["Butiken","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?sp_pid=8&sp_text=8"],
["|Tillbehцr","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?ct=859&sp_pid=2&sp_page=1&sp_psort=22&
sp_sortfield=product_name&sp_sortorder=1&sp_pname=&sp_type=0&select_method=1"],
["||Belysning","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?ct=859&sp_pid=2&sp_page=1&sp_psort=22&
sp_sortfield=product_name&sp_sortorder=1&sp_pname=&sp_type=5&select_method=1"],
["||Bevattning","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?ct=859&sp_pid=2&sp_page=1&sp_psort=22&
sp_sortfield=product_name&sp_sortorder=1&sp_pname=&sp_type=11&select_method=1"],
....
try to write & instead of &.
["Butiken","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?sp_pid=8&sp_text=8"],
["|Tillbehцr","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?ct=859&sp_pid=2&sp_page=1&sp_psort=22&sp_sortfield=product_name&
sp_sortorder=1&sp_pname=&sp_type=0&select_method=1"],
["||Belysning","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?ct=859&sp_pid=2&sp_page=1&sp_psort=22&sp_sortfield=product_name&
sp_sortorder=1&sp_pname=&sp_type=5&select_method=1"],
["||Bevattning","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?ct=859&sp_pid=2&sp_page=1&sp_psort=22&sp_sortfield=product_name&
sp_sortorder=1&sp_pname=&sp_type=11&select_method=1"],
....
Q: Can data be loaded dynamically?
For example, can your dhtml menu source code load the child of a node once the node is clicked on?
A: You can use AJAX like technology.
http://deluxe-menu.com/ajax-technology-menu-sample.html
You may generate a menu from a database or XML using any server-side script, e.g., PHP, ASP, VB, etc.
However, these scripts don't work inside of Javascript .js files, so, you should move parameters of a menu from a .js file into an html-page, e.g.:
<!-- Deluxe Menu -->
<noscript><a href="http://deluxe-menu.com">Javascript Menu by Deluxe-Menu.com</a></noscript>
<script type="text/javascript"> var dmWorkPath = "menudir/";</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="menudir/dmenu.js"></script>
<!-- (c) 2006, http://deluxe-menu.com -->
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2">
// and describe parameters of a menu
var parameter1=value1;
var parameter2=value2;
etc.
var menuItems = [
// here you generate items using server-side scripts (php, asp, vb, etc.)
];
</script>
The example of the menu working with PHP/MYSQL you can find here:
http://deluxe-menu.com/rq-loading-bar-MySQL-support.html