I was wondering if it would be possible to implement a nice menu that expanded the menu tree below the menu parent? May be not all the levels, but just the main levels in the menu tree?

A good example is the left nav bar on the sangonet web site:
http://sangonet.org.za/portal/

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simon rawson commented

From the behaviour of the menus you have cited here (which incidentely don't look good in IE6) I would suggest that you just use the standard Drupal menus, tailoring the css appropriately, so that the nested lists in menus are not indented etc.

We could go on to add css/javascript to provide expand-on-hover behaviour if you like, but that doesn't feature on the page you cited.

Does this help you at all?

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venkat-rk commented

Thanks for responding. Yes, that example looks bad even in firefox, so I should have explained better :(

What I am looking for is basically another option for menu display where menu items expand below the parent (and indented!). With the vertical:right/left options, one often gets the feeling of chasing the menu item a long way across the page, especially if the menu tree has many levels.

Not necessarily expand-on-hover, as it may cause usability issues, but something like the "How-to Library" links (say, Authoring) on www.webmonkey.com

simon rawson’s picture

simon rawson commented

That should be very easy to implement. It's just a case of writing the css, removing most of the display: blocks;

If I get a chance over the next week or so, I'll work something up for you.

Simon

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venkat-rk commented

Thank you for your willingness to consider this!

Hopefully, it will be useful to others as well.

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add1sun commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

clearing old issues - 4.6 is deprecated