By ryanfc08 on

I am using the Marinelli theme and want to have the secondary links in the orange bar have dropdowns. I set the secondary link as expanded in the admin area and gave it a child, but when I roll over the button in the bar nothing happens. Do I need to change anything in the code to do it? If you need to see any code just let me know. Thank you.

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ryanfc08 commented

Can anyone help with this issue or give me any suggestions?

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goombamd commented

How did you even get expanded links from the primary menu?
I installed nicemenus and that's a fine option, but it's surprising there isn't an integrated way to have drop-down menus like you see in DotNetNuke, for example.

I was just hoping for a simple site that could use the forest-floor theme with a few customizations. Any thoughts on how to get the forest_floor theme's primary links menu to have a drop-down menu?

Nicemenus adds a new menu to the top, a repeat of the primary links that appear below the image.

I tried to put checks in "expanded" but nothing happens...

I tried a different default drupal skin but that didn't work either.

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096754 commented

The only thing I know is that the repeat of primary links that appears when you use nicemenu happens because you put the nicemenu in the "header" block of the website...and the primary links that show up by default are not in that block... looking forward to other responses...

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chimera00 commented

Grab the updated Marinelli theme (http://drupal.org/project/marinelli) that now has drop down child menus, at least for the Giordani sub-theme that my site uses. I was looking for the same type of functionality and this option now exactly fits the bill for me.

There's a selection box at the bottom of the Configure section for the Giordani sub-theme that lets you set either Static or Drop Down Primary Links. I then set the Primary Link menu item as Expanded on the Primary links setting page and Voila!, there was the drop down menu I need. It's still heavily in work, but you can see it at www.wordtacular.com.

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glass.dimly commented

Does anyone know a good way to make the *secondary* links dropdown in Marinelli?

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glass.dimly commented

Hey all,

I used the Nice Menu module to make dropdowns in the Secondary (orange) menu. It took some theming work and then CSS adjustment. I warn you it's ugly until you theme it!

Here's the code in the page.tpl.php file that can be pasted in place of Marinelli's secondary links code:

   <?php if (($secondary_links)) : ?>
      <div id="submenu">
          <?php 
	$menu = theme('nice_menu', $id = 1, $mlid = 'secondary-links', $menu = NULL, $direction = 'down');
	print $menu['content'];
	  ?>
      </div>
      <div class="stopfloat"></div>
    <?php endif; ?>
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glass.dimly commented

http://drupal.org/node/67160#comment-1662336

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mrigank commented

You can use Simple Menu to get good looking drop down menus http://drupal.org/project/simplemenu

I used the same and set the CSS selector to .wrapper. This allows the simple menu to appear just below the menu items.
Some minor CSS adjustments also help.

You can check the same at http://www.marriagetown.com/
The grey menu items are created by Simple Menu.