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8/20/2009 4:20 PM
 

Don't forget to read this (with link to video by menu developer)

 

 
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8/20/2009 5:21 PM
 

Timo Breumelhof wrote

IMO the best "documentation" would be some example skins to answer the most common questions.

I'm thinking of:

  • Horizontal
  • Vertical
  • Horizontal with second vertical submenu
  • RTL menu

Any other suggestions?

Timo - definitely the ones you have mentioned, but a couple of other ones that come up - more specifically are:

  1. Horizontal Item Separators - A decent, cross-browser working example.
  2. Getting rid of icons / customising icons / including icons
  3. Styling the Module Drop-down Menu
  4. Sorting out dropdown menu "dissappearing" behind flash - though the solution doesn't really lie with the menu
  5. How absolute positioning "messes up" the flyouts / display of the menu
  6. For DNN 5 NavMenu - the rendermode for UL rendering and the new pseudo classes .first, etc... (in this thread there is reference to some notes and video on this

Basically people want a few good, clean, semantic, cross-browser, css-commented examples of the menu - for both DNN4.9+ and DNN5+ installations.

Jon


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8/20/2009 5:34 PM
 

Thanks Jon,
About: "How absolute positioning "messes up" the flyouts / display of the menu" > Read this

BTW, if I create the examples they will most likely for DNN5, not also DNN4.

 

 
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8/21/2009 6:37 PM
 

I had actually forgotten about that video. I'd watched it way back when DNNNav 2 was in beta, guess I have some homework over the weekend.

One other question - I'd mentioned this in an earlier thread, but I keep getting an annoying dotted-border around my DNNNav object when the mouse is clicked (verified as showing in Firefox 3.5.1). A site displaying this can be found at http://smc.dev.netmds.com (I'm not thrilled with the look, but a committee made the decisions, not me).

The code for the menu (both ASCX token and CSS Styles) were adapted from Lee Sykes' recent article on styling DNNNav, but I've seen this effect before in my style-from-scratch DNNNav elements. I've checked the code against the Extropy skin, and I don't see any styles that could create such an effect, like a border style. It reminds me alot of the box we'd see back when the object/embed issue was being addressed with Flash media a couple years back... Thoughts?

Quick Update:  I tried a couple tricks, the a:focus { border:0; } trick, and tried focusing the CSS selector more precisely, but the way I've fixed it (for now, I guess) was to add:   * {border:0;} to my skin.css file. I'm hoping this doesn't cascade badly and cause more problems, but it works for now I guess.


Wells Doty Jr
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8/24/2009 4:50 PM
 

Another quick question - has anyone gotten a skin using DNNNav to pass W3C Validation? I've had no luck, and best I can tell it's DNNNav, some of the more frequent issues are:

(based on XHTML 1.0 Transitional doctype)

Width not a valid attribute for DIV
< div width="100%" class="DNNMenu main_menu_item....

Attribute "name" not valid for DIV

DIV IDs must start with letters, not numbers (LOTs of errors on this one, as it relates to the number of pages in a site)

 

I'm not sure if this is specific to DNNNav v1  or if it may have been resolved in v2, but it's becoming more of an issue as marketing-type people are placing alot of their SEO effectiveness on the ability for the site to pass W3C Validation (I have my reservations on this issue) and I'd like to keep the amount of 3rd party modules to a limit on some of these sites.

Thoughts?

Wells "Lee" Doty Jr

PS - I know getting a CMS to validate 100% is nigh-impossible, but I have to meet a certain limitation on these sites (say, <25 errors) which DNNNav is blowing out even before I get to the validation of 3rd party modules output.


Wells Doty Jr
Online Content Development
 
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