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[tophe Friend topheJoin date: June 2006Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#119455

Hello folks,
I have spent hours hunting up down and sideways on this issue.

I am running J1.0.12 + Antares + transmenu (in a vertical space to left of where the mod_ja_header would be if it were published).
** mod_ja_header is loaded but currently unpublished.
** Joomla mainmenu is unpublished.

I simply do not like the width of the inconsistent child menus of transmenu… Nor does my client.
That is to say, I would like to able to preset the children to say, 140px.

Suckerfish has consistant widths… but has the problem of offsets of child menus.

I cannot find the appropriate places to modify code/config’s for EITHER issue…. Though we would prefer to use transmenu as a more professional look (– IF we can get this width issue sorted out).

If anyone can shed any light on this, it would make an otherwise very dull day a lot brighter (for me; and quite possibly, the WHOLE world)… 😎

To add to the confusion over the transmenu “separate module extension” and Antares, I notice that Antares loads the [ja-transmenuh.css] – Please note the ‘H’ = horizontal; which is not really a part of the standard Antares setup.

Having tried just about everything from JS hacks to going and having a beer at the pub, I am (almost) ready to give up and accept >:( inconsistant menu widths.

Cheers,
Chris(tophe)r

PS. My client would prefer I do not publish the site address at this time… but if I must, I will.

[itguy Friend itguyJoin date: November 2005Posts: 140Downloads:0Uploads:38 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#216909

The problem here is that Transmenu is written to grab the length of the text for the menu item and then add padding to it. It wasn’t created to use a “set width”. I’m sure this can be done, it’s just a matter of figuring out where in the script it calculates the width and the variable could be hacked at that point. I will see if I can find some time this weekend to take a look but I have a full schedule so no promises.

With any luck, someone from JA that knows the code much better than I do will jump in and point out that location before I can get to this. 😀

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