My website has 6 categories in the header using nice menus. Each one of these have children that drop down, then more children that slide out to the left. This looks fine for the first 5 categories, but then for the 6th, when it slides out to the right, it actually goes beyond the edge of the screen and presents the dreaded horizontal scroll bar. This is in 1280x1024, so you can imagine how inconvenient it would be for users with smaller resolution.

Is there a way I can make certain categories children slide out to the left instead of the right?

So as an example it would look like

Category1
Subcategory1----SUBSUBcategory1
Subcategory2

Category2
Subcategory1
SUBSUBcategory1----Subcategory2

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Kieg Khan’s picture

Kieg Khan commented

Hello,

Is anyone able to give suggestion for this question? I have my nice menus located at the right of the screen and use the down type menu. When I open the last menu the items are off the page, so being able to open the submenu to the left instead of right would fix my problem.

I have seen three other questions along similiar lines, and in all cases there is no reply that helps, maybe it cannot be done? or maybe there is no-one actively watching this forum?

Any help is very much appreciated.

Thanks.

add1sun’s picture

add1sun commented
Component: User interface » Miscellaneous
Category: feature » support
Priority: Critical » Normal

Try changing line 192 (in 4.7) in nice_menus.css to make the placement negative - so it is left: -12.5em;.

If folks really want this option as a feature I guess we'd need to create a new direction to choose. Change what is currently just "down" to "down-right" and make the new one "down-left". There is another feature request for up so maybe all of these can be considered/rolled at the same time.

As a feature request, this would only go into the 5 version. So, if you want it included in module, change status back to feature and version to 5. Attaching a patch will make it much more likely to go in.

add1sun’s picture

add1sun commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

No response in 5 months. Closing.