Customizing a spry menu bar
I have a spry menubar at www.mauitradewinds.com/Super. I would like to consolidate the items "Suite Brochure" and "Tradewinds Virtual Tour" as submenus of "Tradewinds Suite", and consolidate "StarWind Brochure" and "StarWind Virtual Tour" as submenus of "StarWind Cottage." Please provide code. Also, kindly note that the horizontal menu css and js have been renamed "indexmenu.cs" and "indexmenu.js" respectively, to distinguish them from other menus which will link to different stylesheets in the future.
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HA! Wow, thanks for the points! Are you sure you didn't need help with the CSS?
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Thank you for inquiring. I am having some difficulty there. If I made the font large enough to be readable at high resollution, the drop-down menus overlap with the first paragraph of text, which is confusing. If I create enough vertical space to accommodate the drop down menu, the empty space is hard to justify
You don't want the text of the submenu items stacked like that do you? I noticed you changed the CSS file. What you will need to do is add some new styles to that file, and then we can play with the adjustments.
Add the following to your indexmenubar.css file:
Don't worry that one of the styles is blank. Like I said, we will have to play with it. Once you have made these changes and uploaded them to your site so that I can see, let me know.
Add the following to your indexmenubar.css file:
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li ul {
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li ul li {
width: 150px;
}Don't worry that one of the styles is blank. Like I said, we will have to play with it. Once you have made these changes and uploaded them to your site so that I can see, let me know.
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Kind of you to continue after the question is closed. The new code has been added to the css.
No problem. I want to make sure you get your 500 points worth.
Hey, that doesn't look too bad. You could use the new styles I introduced to further tweek the menu items (like increase the width, or the size of the font.)
What do you think? Is it going the direction you wanted it?
What else would you like me to help you with?
Hey, that doesn't look too bad. You could use the new styles I introduced to further tweek the menu items (like increase the width, or the size of the font.)
What do you think? Is it going the direction you wanted it?
What else would you like me to help you with?
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Thank you. I can play with the fine tuning. Before we say "good night", please have a look at what I just uploaded, and let me know what you think.
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OmniUnlimited: I need to call it a night. I'll look for any further comments in the morning. Thanks again for your guidance.
Wow, what a change! Just so that you are aware that website asthetics is a very personal choice and really does not matter concerning the opinions of others because it does not matter what you do, you will always find people who like it, and people who don't.
Having said that, and knowing my opinion on how it looks does not matter, I would ask you, why grey buttons? I mean, the site is so bright, cheery (tropical). Grey is a dull, ugly color. Wouldn't the site look better if the menu buttons reflected a brighter, cheerier color, like tropical blue or sun yellow (if you go to lighter colors, you will need to change the letters to darker ones).
I don't know, you might play with it and see what you think. Also, do you like the submenus small with stacked letters like that, instead of long, one liners?
Remember, I'm just expressing personal preferences.
If there is anything else, don't hesitate to open a new question (I don't know if you noticed above the box where we type in our responses, there is a link to open a related question. Related questions always send an email to the experts that helped on the original question notifying them that you have posted a related issue. If you want to catch my attention, that's just one way to do it. Another is to simply comment on this question. I still monitor all my closed questions.)
Best of luck to you, and have a great night.
Having said that, and knowing my opinion on how it looks does not matter, I would ask you, why grey buttons? I mean, the site is so bright, cheery (tropical). Grey is a dull, ugly color. Wouldn't the site look better if the menu buttons reflected a brighter, cheerier color, like tropical blue or sun yellow (if you go to lighter colors, you will need to change the letters to darker ones).
I don't know, you might play with it and see what you think. Also, do you like the submenus small with stacked letters like that, instead of long, one liners?
Remember, I'm just expressing personal preferences.
If there is anything else, don't hesitate to open a new question (I don't know if you noticed above the box where we type in our responses, there is a link to open a related question. Related questions always send an email to the experts that helped on the original question notifying them that you have posted a related issue. If you want to catch my attention, that's just one way to do it. Another is to simply comment on this question. I still monitor all my closed questions.)
Best of luck to you, and have a great night.
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Thank you for your feedback. The colors and the size of submenus definitely need work. I'm off to Canada for a week vacation, and hope to work with you later!
No problem, I'll be here. Have a great trip!
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