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[molsenale Friend molsenaleJoin date: December 2010Posts: 10Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 5]

#159093

Starting a large site with the need for more magazine menu tabs. I’m thinking of combining two different sections menu tabs into a single menu tab such as Camp/Hike as apposed to Camping on one tab and Hiking on another.

Problem is, click on menu tab and it only opens one section and I don’t want to combine what should be two different section’s content into one section. Does anyone have any suggestions for this? Would K2 fix this (I haven’t used K2 yet), or would a second row of menu tabs fix this, or…???

Basically I need more room for more menu tabs, or I hope to get a really clever suggestion from you.:cool:

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#373081

I think you will either have to re-organise your sections or have a multi column dropdown with each column pounting to a different section.

To have more than one column under each tab is quite simple. Create a separator item for the top tab and then create 2 section layout menus under that. In the separators settings you can select 2 or more columns, on could be used for each section you want to link to.

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[molsenale Friend molsenaleJoin date: December 2010Posts: 10Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 5]

#373167

<em>@phill luckhurst 216618 wrote:</em><blockquote> a multi column dropdown with each column pounting to a different section.</blockquote>

Let me make sure I understand you correctly. By multi column dropdown, do you mean the mega menu? If so…I have that now with three columns; news, latest news, and featured news, just like the demo content. Each of these columns point to the same section (just like the demo) I’d really like to keep that layout because the News is a bullet list (categories), Latest News has thumbnail & title (articles), Featured News can be used for a featured products.

This is all very nice, but if I turn the News & Latest News columns into two different sections, then we lose the ability to have the bullet list of categories and the thumbnail views of articles with titles. Is this what you meant? Plus, I assume it would them be necessary to disable the menu tab as a link and only use the drop down links.

If not, please elaborate further what you are suggesting. When you say “column” you are referring to a vertical column in the menu drop down. What about adding a second horizontal menu row just under the existing row. If this is doable, then the bottom row, far right, could be used for a proper login module as well, which is lacking with this template. Problem I see with this is that when hovering over the upper menu tab, the drop down covers up the lower tabs and is awkward to move mouse where it releases the drop down to then hover over the lower tabs.

There has to be a better way to have more than 8 or 10 sections directly accessible (as in 1 level) from the menu tabs. Thank you for the response Phill, but can you please eloborate further? And does anyone else have any suggestions as well? Does anybody else have enough content to need more that one row of menu tabs?

[molsenale Friend molsenaleJoin date: December 2010Posts: 10Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 5]

#373586

Okay, no new ideas huh…

What I’d like to do is create a second menu row under the black line, move the icons down to the lower row and have room for a couple more menu tabs on the top row and on the right side of that lower row. See attached

What is the best way to do this? Thank you.

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[Saguaros Moderator SaguarosJoin date: September 2014Posts: 31405Downloads:237Uploads:471 Thanks: 845 Thanked: 5346 times in 4964 posts]

#373839

you add the following code into the template.css file to resolve the issue

#ja-topmegamenu {
top: 157px;
position: absolute;
right: 0;
}

Thanks

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