Adding links to the right side of the Primary menu

Its not so easy with this theme. Let me think about it for a day or two, really busy right now with work.

Alrighty then. This turns out it be so simple I surprised even myself. You can do it all with CSS without touching any of the HTML, which is a biggish relief for you (seriassly...).

Do this in style.css around line 131, or apply the attached patch, I'm going to commit this to head also (will be commented as below, to use simply uncomment and modify etc...).

You should use this in conjunction with Drupals Menu Weight system to juggle the Primary links to suit.

/*** To position the last Primary Link on the right, next to the RSS icon, 
     uncomment this...
		 
#primary-menu ul.links li.last {
  margin: -18px 12px 0 0;
  padding: 0;
  float: right; 
}
***/
/*** If you want more than just the last Primary link on the right, you can
       float them individually and then use left margin to push them back
       into view, such as the following example.
		 
     .menu-XXX - is the menu class for the specific menu item
     NNpx -it the number of pixels you need to push it back into view
		 
#primary-menu ul.links li.menu-XXX {
  margin: -18px NNpx 0 0;
  padding: 0;
  float: right;
}
*/

For Suckerfish this becomes considerably more tricky to implement because there can be multiple .lasts classes in the menu.

I'll post an example here but you will need to play around with the selectors as I dont have time to test all permuations, but this shows you the basic idea. I must reiterate, please don't come back and tell me this doesn't work, you have to mess around with it to get your links positioned correctly.

If your last item has sub items (i.e is a drop down itself) then you'll probably need a lot more margin-left, at least 160px approx I would think.

/*** The Suckerfish version doesn't need any negative margin-top ***/

#suckerfish ul li.last {
  margin: 0px 12px 0 0;
  padding: 0;
  float: right; 
}

/*** There can be multiple .last classes in the Suckerfish drop menu, 
       you may have to target every sub level of the menu with a float: none; and
       possible margin adjustments also... ***/

#suckerfish ul li li.last {
  float: none; 
}

I'm not going to include this in the patch since it can be tricky with the Suckerfish, but I leave it here for anyone who wants to use it.

Afraid I have no time to fix the IE6 issue, place a copy of those styles in the IE style sheet and use a star or underscore hack to target IE6 and mess with the margins and padding is probably all that's needed.

Jmburnz, thank you so much for a great theme.

One thought along the same lines of this thread. Any ideas about adding the option for a site login bar on the right hand side of suckerfish menu? This code

  global $user;
  if ($user->uid) {
    print "Welcome ". $user->name. " | ";
    print l("My Account","user"). " | ";
    print l("Logout","logout");
  }
  else {
    print "Welcome Visitor: ". l("Login/Register","user/login");
  }

from http://www.roopletheme.com/forum/index.php?topic=303.msg3085#msg3085 would seem to be a good starting point. On the other hand, perhaps I am asking for the moon, but I could see it being useful for people in need of a concise, and tight login solution.

Daniel

Hi Daniel. I need to keep the theme as generic as possible, thats a big part of what makes it quite popular. Its pretty easy to add in this sort of thing and is more of a site specific customisation that only some sites would want.

Hi jmburnz,

i just wanted to thank you for your newswire theme 3.2 and his capabilities. So so great !!

i used this patch and it runs on a french D6.6 website under construction

No bug with IE, Firefox, but there is a bug with the latest menu item "about" with Google Chrome (not aligned with primary items menu at left.

well, i would try to fix it if i can.

Bye (from France)

@chrysonline

Ok, thanks for the report, I'll take a look in Chrome when I get a chance, hopefully soon!

Can you tell me if the dates are formatted correctly in French? I've heard reports they may not be but that sounded strange to me.

I have a question which is similar to the subject matter here.

First things first. Thx for the theme. I personally find it quite professional in looks.

My question is this.

How can I add two previously done nice menus on the suckerfish region WITHOUT the second menu to wrap to the second line?

If this is too confusing I am attaching a pic to show my issue.

Best Regards, Aris.

@aris53m
You can probably float them within the suckerfish region, that should work, I really need to see the site before I can actually show you code example of how to do this for your situation.

hi jmburnz,

YES !

The dates are not formatted correctly in French.

In french, you must simply reverse 'F' and 'j'... and delete ','

i change your node.tpl.php like that :

<h4 class="meta"><abbr title="<?php print format_date($node->created, 'custom', "l j F Y - H:i"); ?>"><?php print format_date($node->created, 'custom', "j F Y"); ?></abbr> <?php print t('by'); ?> <em><?php print $name; ?></em></h4>

not "October 29, 2008"

but "29 Octobre 2008"

:-)

Re: #9, Thanks I understand, and I appreciate your reply.

jmburnz thx for your prompt response!!!

my site is www.hellaswebnews.com

i would appreciate any further help

cheers, hellaswebnews

@aris53m

In the file - suckerfish.css, around line 15, you need to make a change:

#suckerfish .block {
  float: left;
  clear: none;
  margin-bottom: 0;
  padding-bottom: 0;
  border: none;
}

If you look carefully you will notice I have added only 2 lines to the existing code - float: left; clear: none;

You may want to have a look in IE6, tested only in Firefox 3.

BTW - your site is looking great, well done!

Hi Jim,
the change successfully put the secondary link (Αρχική σελίδα) below the nice menu (2) (videos mp3). Worked in ff3 and chrome (not on ie8). But what i want to do was to place nice menu (2) next to nice menu (1). What do I need to change in the suckerfish.css to make this happen? Thx again! hellaswebnews (www.hellaswebnews.com)

ps: see sfm.pdf att.

Hi jmburnz

forget my previous message everything works fine including ie8.

Best Regards and thx for the help and your nice comments regarding my site.

cheers, Aris.

Hi jmburnz

quick question assuming you have the time.

when the dropdown menus (in the suckerfish) drop they hide everything behind them ie www.hellaswebnews.com.

in another site (www.ert.gr) i've seen dropdown menus do not hide the entire text when they drop.

is it easy to modify the .css files in newswire to produce the same effect as in this site? (www.ert.gr)

as said, if you have the time. its not urgent.

kind regards, hellaswebnews.

@aris53m -probably the easy to do this is to tile a semi-transparent image in the background of the menu items, rather than a solid colour - else this can be done with Javascript (jquery).

jmburnz, for your reply i'll check it out .

Closing, this has gone way off topic the last few additions, ideally please start a new issue rather than adding to others.