I’d like to use the dropline menu option on my site, but I have a problem with how it’s implemented: the template is not allocating space for the 2nd-level menu until the user hovers over a menu that has sub-menu items. That means the dropline appears and disappears as the user moves over the menus, and the rest of the screen gets jerked up and down every time. This is not usable, I’m afraid!
Really, if I’ve selected dropline as my menu type then the space for the second-level menu should be pre-allocated across the board, even if some of the menus don’t have child items. That way the overall display is stable.
I tried forcing this by adding a separator as a sub-item to my “Home” menu item. Unfortunately that doesn’t really work, because the dropline it produces is only half the normal height — so the jerkiness is still a problem.
Anonymous
Moderator
Hi csolar
Could you please send me your live url so that i could have a closer look on the issue?
gabrielanta
Friend
The same to me, but in Teline III !
What happend to me is that the second layer of navigation menu is HIDDEN when the index is loaded. Every time the mouse moves over the menu, then the second layer is shown, but that makes the entire content TO MOVE DOWN, and when the mouse get out of the “menu area”, then the content MOVE UP AGAIN… That looks ugly.
Do you know how can I FORCE the second layer to be allways VISIBLE?
Thank you very much,
Gabriel
Yeah, I noticed the problem was still there during my brief experiment with Teline III. Surely JA can reproduce this on their own servers?
Here’s an example of how a dropline SHOULD work:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/
Anyhow, I wrote off this menu type, at least for these templates.
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