Just closing the loop on this. Randal - I assume you didn't ever solve (or maybe you did solve it, but didn't share your solution).
On 6/16/06, Randal digitas@panix.com wrote:
I will look at Nice Menus to see how easily it can be hacked to do this. Obviously what I need is a CSS statement written to the page (not in javascript) that opens a specific menu section vertically when you are in the section that that menu item represents.
Anyway, I just noticed the activemenu module which is a part of the jstools module and activemenu does exactly what you want (I think).
"Activemenus makes the standard Drupal navigation menu expandable. Clickable, highlighted regions are added to the menu. When a collapsed menu item is expanded, the child menu items are loaded dynamically through AJAX."
The only problem I have with it is that it uses AJAX to pull down the expanded menu information. On a busy site that can result in a jagged movement and require the user to pause unnecessarily.
Anyway, in my quick tests it worked -- with and without javascript -- in IE6 and Firefox1.5.
Regards, Greg
Thanks for this. I had not yet figured out how to achieve what I wanted. I was assuming that I would have to write the entire module myself and was putting it off.
On the face of it, this does seem to do what I need, but I will have to look at it. It seems to me that my desired menu wouldn't even require AJAX, but just having the module write a CSS to make a navigation section visible rather than invisible when you are in that section. This would make the navigation usable without any sort of scripting, and javascript viewers would be able to directly access any section, subsection or subsubsection of the menu through dhtml.
It does look interesting and I will give it a try.
-- Randal
At 6:02 PM -0600 7/20/06, Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:
Just closing the loop on this. Randal - I assume you didn't ever solve (or maybe you did solve it, but didn't share your solution).
On 6/16/06, Randal digitas@panix.com wrote:
I will look at Nice Menus to see how easily it can be hacked to do this. Obviously what I need is a CSS statement written to the page (not in javascript) that opens a specific menu section vertically when you are in the section that that menu item represents.
Anyway, I just noticed the activemenu module which is a part of the jstools module and activemenu does exactly what you want (I think).
"Activemenus makes the standard Drupal navigation menu expandable. Clickable, highlighted regions are added to the menu. When a collapsed menu item is expanded, the child menu items are loaded dynamically through AJAX."
The only problem I have with it is that it uses AJAX to pull down the expanded menu information. On a busy site that can result in a jagged movement and require the user to pause unnecessarily.
Anyway, in my quick tests it worked -- with and without javascript -- in IE6 and Firefox1.5.
Regards, Greg
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