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[francitre Friend francitreJoin date: July 2008Posts: 1Downloads:0Uploads:0]

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I have a big problem with my menu in the hornav position. I can’t see the submenu….i use joomla 1.5.4 with ja purity included in this version.
I’ve created categories for each section and I’d like to view them as submenu in the menu in the hornav position. Is it possible? I checked the parameter: i selected Yes to show sub menuitems but ….i can’t see them

I’m sorry for my english….
thanks a lot

[jaway Friend jawayJoin date: September 2008Posts: 49Downloads:0Uploads:9 Thanks: 24 Thanked: 3 times in 2 posts]

#268558

Hi,

I had the same out of the box experience and then I went to:

Extensions -> Module
I click on “Main Menu”

Once in edit mode I switched:

Position = hornav
Always show sub-menu items = Yes

This did the trick for me. (have a look at the attachment if my instructions are not clear. Let me know if this works.

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[jaway Friend jawayJoin date: September 2008Posts: 49Downloads:0Uploads:9 Thanks: 24 Thanked: 3 times in 2 posts]

#268564

Now I have a question of my own, I am experiencing this now with two templates, I first tried with JA Mercury and now again with JA Purity.

I am running Joomla 1.5.6

For some reason if my Sub menu text is:
a) more than 1 word
b) longer than menu text
it will wrap the sub menu text.

This is really annoying the nuts out of me and looking unprofessional. Does anybody know how I can avoid the text in sub menus from wrapping?

I am attaching to screen shots:

1) submenu1OK.gif -> This I haven’t touched and is a sample from JA Purity (un-adulterated), you see that this doesn’t wrap. But I am assuming it is because the sub menu text “What’s New in 1.5?” is shorter than the menu text “Joomla! Overview”. Can somebody confirm this assumption?

2) submenu2NOTOK.gif -> This is the new level 1 (menu) and level 2 (submenu) menu which I have created. You can see that “Management Consulting” is wrapping on two lines >:( and I would like it to appear on a single line. Could somebody tell me how I can achieve this?:confused:

Thanks in advance.

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[jaway Friend jawayJoin date: September 2008Posts: 49Downloads:0Uploads:9 Thanks: 24 Thanked: 3 times in 2 posts]

#268786

Thanks for all the help and responses in solving this problem.

I found out that in the folder /public_html/templates/ja_purity/css
there is a file by the name of ja-sosdmenu.css

In this file are all the settings for the menu level 1,2 3 and greater navigation

I added the command: white-space: nowrap;
under the section for level 2 after the code:

#ja-mainnav ul.menu li ul a {
border-right: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 7px 10px;

This prevents the text on level two from wrapping

Also I found out that by modifying the values in

padding: 7px 10px;

you can adjust how much padding there is above/below and left/right of the menu item’s text.

Hope this proves helpful to others that want to prevent a submenu’s text from wrapping

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