Hi James, I’ve just had a quick look at your site and it seems that you are making 6 individual “vertical” lists to create your menu as opposed to 1 individual vertical list containing 6 main items with indented sub list items to create the drop down items. The difference would be seen by selecting “horizontal menu” in the actions pallete where it says “Main Menu Layout:” maybe this is where the confusion lies?
I simply do not understand the “proper way” to use CSS Menus.
As long as it works for you then i don’t really think there is a “proper” way.
I’ve got 6 menus in the menubar.
Note that the submenus are wider than the menu buttons.
Yes creating 6 individual vertical menus would allow you to specify a different em for the top item and the drop down / sub menu items.
Joe sent me a FW document that had everything stuffed inside a container box. But as I told Joe offline, I cannot figure out how to make sense of that method. For when I double-click on any one of the six menus inside the container box in Joe’s file, Freeway only allows me to edit the list of the leftmost button. So I went back to my method.
I think this is where the confusion lies, Joe would be creating an individual horizontal menu with the sub menus indented in the list. When you click anywhere on the menu to edit it the menu reverts back to presenting itself as an vertical list, you would need to move down through the list items to edit them. The left most items in the list denoted by the black dot bullet would be the top most items in the horizontal menu. Items indented another level denoted by the “o” bullet are sub menus of the item in the list directly above then. Indent once more from one of these and you get a sub menu of a sub menu, indicated by a square bullet. Does this make sense?
Try creating a simple list with about 10 items in it, indent everything once to create a list by selecting the right arrow under list in the inspector pallete, you should now have 10 items with black dot bullets next to them. Select the 2nd and 3rd items and indent once more, these should have an “o” bullet next to them. Now select the 5th 6th and 7th items, (not the 4th) and indent these another level, these should also have an “o” next to them. Select the 7th item again and indent this yet another level, this should have a square bullet next to it. Ignore the 8th element, (should still have the black dot bullet next to it), and indent the 9th and 10th item another level. Select Item/Actions/CSS Menus and select “horizontal menu” in the actions pallete where it says “Main Menu Layout:” When you preview this you should see a horizontal menu with 3 main items, the 1st and 3rd item should have one level of drop down menu and the middle item should have 2 levels. When you try to edit the menu it will revert back to showing you a vertical list.
Does that help?
Too much time on my hands this morning!!
Regards.
Tom.
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