drop down menu WAS working, but now isn't (Marinelli Theme, Drupal 6.8)

By ArthurC on 1 Feb 2009 at 02:47 UTC

Mystified. The Marinelli drop down menu was working magnificently last time I was on the site. Today, I noticed that the drop down menu had stopped working.

Before noticing the menu problem I had added some pages, WYSIWYG API and TinyMCE, Image, Image assist/Attach/Gallery/Import modules. I disabled all those modules, but my beautiful drop down menus didn't come back.

I see some comments in other similar threads (but none by people whose drop down menus were working correctly) that relate to DHTML settings. I've looked everywhere for DHTML settings, and found none.

The site is http://www.buteinlet.net. The drop down menu item is Projects.

Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

Comments

Same Problem

jostmuc commented 17 February 2009 at 21:59

I have the same Problem, since I installed Marinelli 6.x-2.8... A Bug??

http://www.jostwagner.de

I would be happy to find help!

Probabaly missing hoverIntent

lybroj commented 18 February 2009 at 01:48

I had the same problem with a new install. Lioz, the author of Marinelli, incorporated hoverIntent into the theme for the dropdown menus sometime after version 6.x-2.6. You can download hoverIntent here: http://cherne.net/brian/resources/jquery.hoverIntent.html

What you want to do is to download the "minified" version of hoverIntent (jquery.hoverIntent.minified.js) and to place it in the js subfolder of the marinelli theme folder. That is all I did and it started working. If you look in template.php, you will see where it is trying to load this file.

Note that if you turn on the image preload option of the theme, you will have a similar problem. In this case you will need to download the file preloadCssImages.jQuery_v5.js and place it in the js subfolder. If you read the readme.txt that comes with the Marinelli theme it tells you where to get that file.

Eager anticipation

ArthurC commented 18 February 2009 at 02:49

turned to continued despair.

I was excited to try your solution (forgetting for the moment that I had dropdown menus working beautifully, then they stopped working. I don't think the minified hoverIntent was ever present.)

I installed it, following your instructions, and tried it. And nothing.

Looking a bit more closely, I can find no reference to hoverIntent in template.php.

marinelli.info includes this text at the bottom:
version = "6.x-2.6"
core = "6.x"
project = "marinelli"
datestamp = "1228381518"

Does this mean I'm using an earlier version than you, since you said "added AFTER 6.x-2.6"?

I really appreciate your note, even if I am not successfully playing with dropdown menus, yet.

Check the javascript errors

lybroj commented 18 February 2009 at 14:46

ArthurC, I looked at your site one more time using Firefox with the Firebug plug-in and there are javascript errors which suggest that you have problems with the image assist module, and with the preload of images in Marinelli. Try turning off the image assist module, and turning off the image preload in Marinelli. One or both of those could be causing the drop downs not to work. You are also getting an error in a reference to jQuery. I know this does not fix your problem, but hopefully this will help you narrow down your problem. Good luck!

Thanks a lot!!

jostmuc commented 18 February 2009 at 07:50

In my case your hint was the right one... its working again!!

Hope that Arthur finds a soultuion soon as well!

all the Best
Jost

sorry

Lioz commented 18 February 2009 at 08:18

Sorry, it was my mistake, i forgot to add the js files
now fixed in 6x-2.9

let me know if everything is ok!

http://www.signalkuppe.com

I went and got the 2 missing

ryanfc08 commented 26 February 2009 at 14:22

I think I have all the issues worked out. Thank you.

I have the similar problem,

veriy commented 2 March 2009 at 08:51

I have the similar problem, mine is only showing parents, not the leaves. The menu that supposed to have children do not show down-arrow.

But this condition is only happen with new browser opening the page, that is browser that has never open the page before or browser after cache cleared. Clicking the parent menu for the first time will show the arrow and the children for the page in a scrambled order.

The second page will look OK for the parent menu that has been clicked, but not for the other parent menu.

I'm using 6.x-2.9, been trying to disable imageassist and nicemenus, copy another hoverIntent, and turning off image preload, but the problem still happen on new browser.

Sorry, I haven't made the page public and it still sits in my localhost.
Appreciate any thoughts.

thanks.

Drop down

kpetkov commented 6 January 2010 at 14:59

I don't know whether you solved your problem. But if you look into the theme folder in the readme.txt says:
To use the drop down menu for primary links you have to:

1. Create a menu tree for primary links (admin/build/menu-customize/primary-links)

2. Set all menu items to "expanded"

3. Activate it in the subtheme you are using: for example if you are using marinelli go to /admin/build/themes/settings/marinelli
and select drop down for the select box at the bottom of the page