Disappearing Nice Menu items in noprob theme
allanx - August 27, 2008 - 05:27
Hey folks,
Over the last few months I have developed a fully-functioning political party website: www.greens.org.au
It all seems to work fine and the client is happy with the way it works and the design.
The issue I now face is that the primary links in the header aren't working properly. It seems menu items randomly disappear after hovering the mouse over the sub-menu links. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't
Using Drupal 6, and the "no prob" theme with the Nice Menus module.
As usual, I've scoured the forums etc, with little result.
Please if anyone can help or offer any advice I'd be grateful...
thanks
allanx
al@radicalhack.com
Sorry wrong website address!
This is the correct site: www.wa.greens.org.au
woops!
al
I would think the problem
I would think the problem you are describing is because there is a very small gap between the top level primary link and drop down, so if the user is not quick enough with the mouse that small gap (probably one pixel) is enough to collapse the menu. That is the price of CSS only drop downs, they are brutally unforgiving if you leave a gap or the user has less than perfect motor skills or a crappy mouse...
Close that gap to zero and your problem will go away, or else load some Javascript to allow some mouse-out time (which offers a huge usability improvement for any drop menu).
I would have posted the actual fix for the CSS, but I notice the site is now closed for maintenance.