[support] creating menus with "system" destination URLs

[Neil: esl-lounge.com]

David,

I had the same problems when I was using Garland a month or two ago. I had 
the theme developer look at this issue and he said he'd spend 2-3 hours 
poring over it and was convinced it was a menu module problem. He said 
looking at the html source that even when some sub-menus were appearing, the 
"active" CSS class wasn't being passed to them to allow the little white 
arrow on our theme to appear.

I too am convinced it's drupal itself and not the theme, due to the fact 
that it's the TYPE of url involved that makes these menu items appear and 
disappear. If it was html or css, they'd either always or never appear. 
Period.

Just now I created the following:

Forum (node/23)
- USA Forum (forum/3)
- UK Forum (forum/4)
- Europe Forum (forum/6)

and everything showed beautifully, all the white arrows got attached to 
"active" links right on cue. Then as soon as I changed the parent Forum URL 
to the correct "forum" path, the whole thing broke. Clicking on it took me 
to the main forum page but none of the sub-items show anymore. Going 
manually to the USA forum then brings all the sub-items into sight and I can 
then click from child to child, but as soon as I dare to click on the parent 
Forum again, all the child menu items disappear. Change the destination URL 
back to node/77 or the like, back they come.

Someone on .org and also Earnie on this list mentioned PathAuto. They could 
be right, although /forum isn't a pathauto URL, it's a default one....isn't 
it???

The only other drupal-related issue that has led me to cause so many 
head-shaped depressions in my walls is the issue that dare not speak its 
name (whisper it..."dependent dropdowns")

Oh dear....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Metzler, David" <metzlerd at evergreen.edu>
To: <support at drupal.org>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [support] creating menus with "system" destination URLs


> Have you validated youir CSS and HTML?   This sounds like flakey
> behavior I've had when I had some invalid HTML.
>
> Given that you've got a new theme in play, I thought I might suggest
> checking that out.
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of Earnie Boyd
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 9:29 PM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [support] creating menus with "system" destination URLs
>
> Quoting "Neil: esl-lounge.com" <neil at esl-lounge.com>:
>
>> I have a new theme and am now trying to create the menus. I have run
>> into a lot of trouble with destination URLs such as
>>
>> user/me ( I am using me module)
>> profile/me
>> user/1
>>
>> These are either not being put in or are put in but without the
>> possibility of adding sub-menus to them. Has anyone else struggled
>> with this issue? I just created a menu item going to user/1 and it
>> showed up in FF but not in IE.
>>
>> I realised it was because, only for admins, I still have the
>> "Navigation" menu showing up and it has the "locked" item MyAccount.
>> In FF, this disappeared when the new menu item going to user/1 was
>> created, whereas in IE, it stayed in the Navigation menu and didn't
>> show in the new menu. My head's about to explode. :-(
>
> Be sure the caching is flushed, including the caching tables in MySql.
>
> Earnie
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