By Smartyy on

Hi all,

Sorry, this probably isn't the correct forum, but I didn't see any "general questions' forum...

Anyway, I've searched around, including the forums, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do a simple drop down menu- one that, when your mouse hovers over the menu, the children items appear for you to click on. It seems like such a trivial thing, but is proving very difficult to figure out!

Thanks!

Mathieu

EDIT: I should mention... I have installed nice menus on my installation, I've tried it both with the default theme (Bartik?) and a theme called "Corporate Clean"...neither of which work; it's installed and enabled, but it never goes into the right position (meaning, I want it where to default menu is, but there doesn't seem to be a position for it) and no matter which position it [i]is[/i] in, it doesn't do the "drop down" part, it's like, when you click on the menu, then it takes you to that page with all the other menu items underneath.

EDIT: So, I figured out how to get the default menu module to "half work" with the Corporate Clean theme. The only issue is it doesn't [i]always[/i] display the menu. I created a 'test page' and put it as a child menu under the 'about' page. When you're on the the 'about' page, you see the little arrow on the menu and the test page child menu appears. However, when on any other page, it doesn't show up.

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vm commented

Questions of this nature are better served in the post installation forum. Please edit and move the thread. Thanks.

two options for drop downs are: http://drupal.org/project/nice_menus or http://drupal.org/project/superfish

There are likely others which can be round in the related projects block located on the bottom left of project pages.

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Smartyy commented

I'll edit the original post, but I should have mentioned... I have installed nice menus on my installation, I've tried it both with the default theme (Bartik?) and a theme called "Corporate Clean"...neither of which work; it's installed and enabled, but it never goes into the right position (meaning, I want it where to default menu is, but there doesn't seem to be a position for it) and no matter which position it [i]is[/i] in, it doesn't do the "drop down" part, it's like, when you click on the menu, then it takes you to that page with all the other menu items underneath.

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greta_drupal commented

Be sure to check the "expanded" state of your menu options. Some of the menu modules require that "expanded" be selected, even though it won't show the menu expanded (all items) by default. Well, it will, but that will be collapsed by default.

I have used Nice Menus in the past, but on one of my D6 sites, the update broke the site -- so had to roll back to the unsupported version.

Superfish is pretty popular. A pain to theme, but will get the job done.

Whatever you install, you will want to go to your theme settings (D6: /admin/build/themes/settings) and disable (uncheck box for) primary menu -- means that code will not longer manipulate it. Then, instead, place your Nice Menu or Superfish Menu block, through the Drupal block UI. You'll also need to configure that block, to indicate which menu you are using with that Superfish/Nice Menu block. Your theme should have a header section -- typical place to position the block. You might have to tweak the CSS to get it positioned just as you'd like.

Typically, I do a lot of CSS tweaking with the menu modules. Nice Menus has had a nice feature whereby you can declare a custom nice-menu css file on the theme settings page -- allows you to place that custom css file in your own theme directory so as not to hack the module CSS file. Example: http://e-quipafrica.org/scr_nice-menu-css-declare.jpg .

Whatever you use, be sure to clone the default CSS file for modification. You can then declare it on the theme settings page (such as for Nice Menus), or you could add that new, custom menu CSS file to your theme .info file.

Alternatively, you can just add your menu styles to your custom.css file -- the one you would add general customization. (That is what I do. I have a bunch of small .css files.)

http://ItsAboutTyme.com

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greta_drupal commented

*sigh* I just wrote this detailed post, but Drupal.org hung and had to reboot.

UPDATE: Well, apparently, Drupal saved it just in time.

http://ItsAboutTyme.com

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Smartyy commented

thanks for the long detailed post that luckily wasn't deleted!

Newbie question though-- where do you go to tell the menus to be expanded..? From what I can find, it's suppose to be under where the menu items are listed (Structure >> Menus >> Main Menu / List Links) but all I see is "enabled" ..not even an option to click expand or not.

Thanks again!

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vm commented

each is set individually. thus, edit a menu item. you will then find a checkbox for "show as expanded"

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Smartyy commented

Thank you so much!!!! This has been driving my crazy and I knew it was something petty like that. Everything works just fine now, thanks again!!

One more quick question-- I have an option to turn on and off the site slogan, but where do I go to change what the slogan says?

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vm commented

administer -> site information