By randyjkoch1 on
Just need to know how to simply create a menu item such as "products" and then create a child (I think you call it a child) item such as "air conditioners" that is visible when someone hovers over the parent menu item. Basically I'm wanting to know how do you create a child page and then link it to this "products" menu item so that when someones mouse hovers over the menu item "products" all the little submenu items such as "air conditioners" appear so that they can left click on the submenu items. Appreciate any help. Are there any videos that will take me through all the basic setup options from a-z without using terminology that only programmers understand?
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Themeing
This would be in your theme, can you tell us what theme you are using? This is why it is taking so long to get you answer you are looking for. The more details you give us the better we can respond.
Once you have in your theme, you go to admin/build/menu and create your menus.
Example:
Click "Primary Menu"
Click "Add Item"
On this page you would add the "path" and "Menu link title"
Click Save
On the next page you can drag and drop the menu items, to get the structure you want.
Hope this helps.
James
Drop down menus
Acquia prosper. I'm looking to create a web with drop down menus like the top menu bar on this site http://www.acdirect.com/. I have searched all over the drupal help topics and forums and have found no easy solution to creating something that I thought would be pretty straightforward. Will I need to use css and html to accomplish this or is it just a simple setting? Thank you very much.
On the Acquia prosper project
On the Acquia prosper project page http://drupal.org/project/acquia_prosper there is directions on how to complete this with the menus.
Installing Fusion
If you've ever installed a Drupal theme before, you'll find that installing Fusion is just as easy. And if you haven't, don't worry: You'll still be fine! There are five steps:
1> Download the Skinr module (the 1.x branch, as of March 2010), which gives you access to many of Fusion's unique features
2> Download Fusion
3> Enable the Skinr module
4> Enable and set a Fusion subtheme (such as Acquia Prosper) as your site's default theme (IMPORTANT) Fusion is just a Core theme
5> Give yourself permission to access Skinr's controls
If you’re not the site's "super user" (that is, the person holding the first account created when you installed Drupal), you (or someone with sufficient permissions) need to explicitly allow you to use Skinr's features. Go to the user permissions page (e.g. http://www.example.com/admin/user/permissions), scroll down to the "skinr module" section, and check all boxes under your user role.
From their you should be able to complete the tasks I mentioned above.
Try that and let us know how it goes.
If anything goes wrong. Please give us details. Where you got stopped, error messages Etc.
James
Thanks again
When i installed fusion i also installed all of the supporting modules including the ones you mentioned. I went through a video series that took me through the administration process so I think I am the top dog on my site. However, even with all of this accomplished the description of creating a drop down menu still came up empty. I created the menu and confirmed it showed up on my menu bar. but when i created the menu item that i wanted as part of the drop down menu it showed up in the menu bar right next to the menu item i wanted as the parent (not hidden until the mouse hovered over it). I tried to drag it at the page you suggested but it just reshuffled everything. Ill check to see if i am truly set up as the administrator or not but i have to believe i am. thanks,
Randall
randyjkoch1, did you get your issued resolved?
Could you please teach me how to solve it. I am encountering the same issue and still have no clue how to create a menu item that shows a drop-down list of submenu items when the mouse hovers over it.
Thanks very much.
Jeny
Please help! Nice sub-menu does not fly out/drop down.
Can someone help me!
I installed nice menu module and followed instructions in this post http://drupal.org/node/209989. I did not modify the nice_menu_default.css though because I don't care much about the styling/appearance of my drop-down menus yet. I just want to see if it works. Unfortunately, it does not. According to the post, I created 2 nice menus:
* 'flyơut1' with 1 item 'Recipes', which, in turn, has 2 sub-menu items: 'Appetizer', and 'Bread';
* and 'flyout2' with 1 item 'Travel'.
When mouse hovers over 'Recipes', the sub-menu is supposed to fly out/drop down, but it does not.
Please, please tell me what's wrong!
I cannot believe that such a basic and important feature as drop-down menus and neither drupal nor fusion provides a complete and good documentation or tutorial on how to do it. Maybe I have not found the right doc.? But where are they? I've been searching for days and reading up on tons of docs, including nice menus, superfish menu, etc. and still cannot do it. Please teach me or guide me in the right direction.
Any help is very much appreciated.
Thanks you.
Jeny
taxonomy_menu module
I use taxonomy_menu, it creates a menu for my vocabulary automatically.
Edit vocabulary settings and point TAXONOMY MENU -> Menu location: to Primary Links