great idea... but cannot implement successfully on my site

the admin bar appears on installation... when I move mouse over a menu item, drop-down menu appears, but offset to the right of the menu item... as soon as I move mouse towards drop-down menu items, by moving off the top-menu item, the drop-down menu disappears!!

So frustrating! (There is about a single pixel diagonal "bridge" between the admin menu and the drop-down menu that follow mouse hover, but I've only ever managed to "cross it" to the d/d menu once!

Is this a bug? Or could I have I installed incorrectly somewhow?

thanks!

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WorldFallz commented

i had that happen a couple of times... seemed to be related to the particular theme i was using or the block settings. I'm using it successfully with zen at the moment.

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jbc commented

mainly using firefox browser; on windows platform running apache etc. under XAMPP

does the problem occur under a different browser / theme? to my recollection it did not work under Avant browser which uses the IE engine....

i've reinstalled the module, but cannot now find a setting to make it visible / it's not appearing... so I cannot test further.

i will return with further information about other browsers / themes if i find out why its not appearing...

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jbc commented

ok...

using Firefox: problem as reported originally, with Garland & Minelli themes; with pushbutton, for example, it works as intended (v.nice!)

using Avant: only the top menu items appear, no drop-down menu appears when hovering or selecting top menu items; same for all themes

using IE: as Avant

using Opera: it works beautifully with all themes, including Garland, Minelli and Pushbutton

Hope that's helpful... sorry about the extended posting to get there...

b/t/w is it easy to change the favicon that sits in the corner of the Admin menu?

Thanks for assist
Jbc

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sun
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Location Karlsruhe
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Title: admin menu appears but innaccessible to mouse... » Admin menu appears but is inaccessible due to margins

As you already discovered, this is caused by your theme and not by the module. So re-installing the module won't take you further.

You should have a look into admin_menu.css. Either this is related to the theme's basic font-size or some generic styles for blocks that are stronger than the styles defined by admin_menu.css. Another option is that the width of drop-down lists is unnecessarily expanded by a padding value.

Conclusion: Have a look at margin, padding and width values. You can try to adjust and override those values if you copy affected lines into a new admin_menu.css placed into your theme's directory. If the file /themes/mytheme/admin_menu.css exists, it will be automatically included by Admin Menu.

Keep in mind that a style can be easily overridden by another style if the second CSS selector is more specific than the first.

.block-admin_menu .content

may be overridden by another style:

#main .block .content

You might use Firebug to observe and debug what's really going on in your theme.

If you've found the offending styles that are overridden by your theme, posting these here as a follow-up would be greatly appreciated.

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sun
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Component: User interface » CSS / Browser Support
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
jbc’s picture

jbc commented

thanks for the tips; I will try and have a look into that but I'm not presently in a position to prioritise it...

However, I do wonder...

...I'm using Firefox browser with Minnelli / Garland theme — a combination that I would expect a LOT of Drupal users are / will utilise... (it didn't work with IE and Minelli / Garland either, only Opera)

...thus, if admin menu is to work with this basic combination, is it really appropriate to flag this up as a theming issue?

OR are you suggesting that it is due to CSS changes that I have personally made to garland.css? if so, that seems more understandable...

jbc

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jody lynn
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I had this problem in IE6 using the zen theme - the dropdowns were offset far to the right. I fixed it by removing 

ol, ul, dl { 
  position: relative; 
}

from the zen theme.

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tsavino commented

I am using IE7 ya I know but it not showing the dropdown no matter what theme I use and body find a fix for this or just a bug? FireFox work fine in every theme I have tried.....

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sun
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Title: Admin menu appears but is inaccessible due to margins » Admin menu inaccessible due to margins
Assigned: Unassigned » sun
Category: support » bug
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Needs review
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new admin_menu_0.patch2.76 KB

Please test attached patch. It should fix Admin Menu in most themes and more importantly, IE6 in Zen theme.

I've successfully tested the following themes in Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 6:
aberdeen, aberdeen-liquid, bluemarine, chameleon, garland, marvin, minelli, pushbutton, zen and zen-fixed.

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sun
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Location Karlsruhe
commented
Status: Needs review » Fixed

This should be fixed now. Please download the new release for Drupal 5 and re-open this issue, if this bug is not yet fixed.

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keesje commented

Fix confirmed, thanks.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)