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[Scott Lavelle Friend Scott LavelleJoin date: November 2010Posts: 266Downloads:16Uploads:5 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 64 times in 27 posts]

#187061

Hello again all,

I am trying to get a side-bar menu where thre are two levels. I want it to appear so that the second level is always shown and not on hover. Seems simple, but I can’t make the dropdown on hover stop.

So I have this…

Item 1
—sub item a
—sub item b
—sub item c
Item 2
Item 3
etc…

I want it to basically look just like that on the screen. Instead what I get is Item 1 with a small arrow to the right and when you hover over it, the sub item a,b, and c are shown overlaying. I don’t want this for a few reasons: 1. It looks bad, 2. You can’t see the information without the hover, and 3. I load this menu module into the dropdown of the mega menu at the top, so there is a dropdown inside of the megamenu dropdown, which I think looks bad and is confusing to use.

Can someone simply explain how I can make these items always show without the hover effect? I can’t find anything because people are usually looking to enable the hover not remove it, so all that comes up in searches is how to add a dropdown on hover.

I have the module setup to point to a menu that has subitems and in the menu module options, I have show sub-menu items selected as yes. If I select that as no, then they don’t show at all. I just want them to show, but indented instead of on hover. I feel like there must be a style already in there for this to use for the Menu Class Suffix, but I don’t know what it is and everything in this regard seems to point to horizontal menus WITH drop downs.

Please assist if you have any ideas.

Thanks.

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[Scott Lavelle Friend Scott LavelleJoin date: November 2010Posts: 266Downloads:16Uploads:5 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 64 times in 27 posts]

#491205

Anyone have any ideas for me on this? This is the site I’m working on, where you can see the dropdown I’m trying to get rid of in the left menu of the ISO-C1 product or in the main mega menu for the ISO-C1 product as well: http://dyplastproducts.technicalrs.net

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#491279

Hi

My answer:

Can someone simply explain how I can make these items always show without the hover effect? I can’t find anything because people are usually looking to enable the hover not remove it, so all that comes up in searches is how to add a dropdown on hover.

>> You can assign T3 blank clone style which use Joomla default menu (Don’t have hover effect) to the 1 level sub-menu items. Here is details:

– Create a clone T3 blank template style in Template Manager >> Template Style >> Save >> Save As a Copy.

– Open backend of 1 level submenu items (a,b,c), then assign T3 blank clone template style (i.e Default)

– Then go to clone T3 blank template style in Template Manager >> Navigation >> Use Mouse click (Trigger dropdown) & Joomla module (Navigation Type).

Leo

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#491404

Leo,

What I get from that is that ALL menus use the megamenu when you choose megamenu in the config – not just the main menu? I thought by selecting megamenu, then choosing main menu, that limited the megamenu capabilities to the main menu. This is, of course, how it used to work – in fact there were times when using the earlier frameworks that I wished I could assign the megamenu to other menus! 🙂

So – maybe asking a different way…more for future use than this case:

Is there a way to make the dropdowns go out to the right or left for menus that are in a sidebar? It doesn’t seem like it would ever make sense to have a dropdown in a vertical menu unless maybe it was an accordion menu. Thoughts?

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#491441

Hi

My answer is yes. But, you need to customize your own dropdown styles by yourself, because in general, We always have the special overriden megamenu styles of T3 framework for special T3 templates (Brisk, Mitius, Argo, Fubix…) which is stored in templatesja_templatecssmegamenu.css & templatesja_templatelessmegamenu. less .
Furthurmore, Thank you for your suggestion, but we don’t intend to style the vertical dropdown menu for our T3 Mega menu in coming time.

Leo

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#497074

Hello this is an interesting subject, i hope is still open??

Im looking for an opinion of what i want to achieve with my site and menues:

I have a site with different cities and i want to have always a menu in the “top-head” to switch form city to city, I would like to make a dropdown menu, if is possible?

Or

The other thing that i can do if the first option is not possible to do or hard to accomplish, i want to place a menu on the “top-head” that can look like tabs, i have created an specific template for each city with its own megamenu for each city, but i want the button related to the city to appear active all the time that you are inside the menu and template of that city, but when i go to the city sub-menues, the current city button goes back to static. So how can i tell the button that while we are inside an specific “city_template” the “city_top_head_button” should stay active, letting us know that we are in that city.

So I have all my links in the “mainmenu” with all the cities and categories for “mytemplate_HOME” and after i did a “Menu_Item_Alias” to the new created “mainmenu_city1” wish links to the megamenu of “mytemplate_city1” and so on, so going back to “top-head-city-menu” i did as well a “Menu_Item_Alias” to each city from “mainmenu”.

Thanks

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#497081

Hi otomol,

<blockquote>I have a site with different cities and i want to have always a menu in the “top-head” to switch form city to city, I would like to make a dropdown menu, if is possible?</blockquote>
Yes. It is really posible when you install our templates running on new T3 framework. Then you can assign the available template styles containing Mega Menu (Dropdown style) configurations, to your selected menu items.

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#497111

Thanks for your fast answer!!!
I am using JA_Mitius with T3 framework, so i can do that, thats good!! 🙂

So can you give me an idea of how to achieve something like this menu in the T3 Blank demo, here you have the image.

Thanks

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#497122

Leo Thanks !!!

I did it already, i just study the T3 blank template and manage to place the menu as i wanted on the “top-head” and with “drowdown”

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#497123

Hi otomol,

The dropdown style is a default feature of Joomla menu module. You just need to create Menu module & assign it to top-head position. You will see the dropdown when you hover.

* Make sure that you enabled Show Sub-menu Items in backend.

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#497127

Now for the 2nd question.

Can i have active all the parent links of and item, for example if i am down a sub-category or item i would like to have active or with an active color or any CSS of the whole root line up, like in the breadcrumbs that is pointing the whole trajectory of where you are. But can i do that in a menu. So if i am inside a City my menu on the Top-Head can always have that city in a different color or size.

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#497138

Hi otomol,

<blockquote>Can i have active all the parent links of and item, for example if i am down a sub-category or item i would like to have active or with an active color or any CSS of the whole root line up, like in the breadcrumbs that is pointing the whole trajectory of where you are. </blockquote>
Some extra css styles will be needed to get your requirement. Pls put these extra codes into templates/ja_mitius/css/custom.css file.

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