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@evergreen.edu To: support@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@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Earnie Boyd Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 9:29 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] creating menus with "system" destination URLs
Quoting "Neil: esl-lounge.com" neil@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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