[Pro] Freeway 5.3.2 CSS Menu Update

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In the release notes for Freeway 5.3.2 it states that “The CSS Menus Highlight Current Page feature now highlights parent items”.

What exactly does this mean? I have a top menu item with no link attached to it and several child menu items. The top menu item shows no difference when you visit a child page.

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Anyone?

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Hi igrover,

If you are using the Highlight Current Page option and the current
page is in a submenu then the path to the submenu item will be
highlighted.

Take a look at this page:

http://softpress.com/products/cssmenus.php

Notice how the Products item is highlighted, and when you hover over
it the New Features item and then the CSS Menus items are highlighted.
If this isn’t happening on your site could you post a link to the
problem page and I’ll see if I can see what’s happening.

Joe

On 4 May 2009, at 02:29, igrover wrote:

In the release notes for Freeway 5.3.2 it states that “The CSS Menus
Highlight Current Page feature now highlights parent items”.

What exactly does this mean? I have a top menu item with no link
attached to it and several child menu items. The top menu item
shows no difference when you visit a child page.

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Hi Joe - I was still having problems so I deleted the original menu and started from scratch. For some reason this fixed the problem.

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Great, thanks for letting me know. It could have been a style conflict
or something like that.

Joe

On 6 May 2009, at 18:58, igrover wrote:

Hi Joe - I was still having problems so I deleted the original menu
and started from scratch. For some reason this fixed the problem.

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Well, still having the same problem and now some new problems.

Concerning the original problem where the Highlight Current Page Option was not working correctly, I found that when changing the background image for the Main Menu settings I needed to first select None for the background, then publish, then select my new image and publish again to have it work correctly. I guess Freeway needs to completely flush the old code to work correctly.

Now for the new problems.

  1. I am having the old problem of the submenus being unclickable in my Windows IE6 browser even though I have a graphic selected for the background.

  2. My CSS Rollover buttons do not show correctly in Windows IE6 (they are png graphics) although the links attached to each button do work.

Here is a link to the attached test site:

http://www.thecallanishgroup.com/testing/menutest/index.html

Not all of the menu items have been populated - test the “Background”, “Applications” and “About the ITA” to verify if you are having the same problems.

Thanks in advance.

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On 7 May 2009, at 15:11, igrover wrote:

Well, still having the same problem and now some new problems.

Concerning the original problem where the Highlight Current Page
Option was not working correctly, I found that when changing the
background image for the Main Menu settings I needed to first select
None for the background, then publish, then select my new image and
publish again to have it work correctly. I guess Freeway needs to
completely flush the old code to work correctly.

Odd, there are some internal resource issues that we have logged as
bugs, it could be these that are causing the problem.

Now for the new problems.

  1. I am having the old problem of the submenus being unclickable in
    my Windows IE6 browser even though I have a graphic selected for the
    background.

I don’t see this behaviour in IE6, do you have some steps I can follow
to see the problem?

  1. My CSS Rollover buttons do not show correctly in Windows IE6
    (they are png graphics) although the links attached to each button
    do work.

The PNG Transparency fix built into Freeway doesn’t work on CSS
backgrounds (what the CSS Rollover Action uses), there is a potential
fix for this though (I haven’t tested it with the Action you’re using).

Go here:

http://www.dillerdesign.com/experiment/DD_belatedPNG/#release0.0.7a

and download either version (compressed or uncompressed). Change the
name to “DD_belatedPNG.js” once it’s downloaded.

In Freeway select an item on your index page and apply the Upload
Extra Resources Action:

http://actionsforge.com/projects/view/26-upload-extra-resources

In the “With Page’s HTML” section select the file you downloaded.

On your Master pages go to the Page>HTML Markup menu and select "After

" from the dropdown menu at the bottom of the HTML Markup dialog (note there is no / in this, be careful not to choose "After " by mistake).

Paste the following code into the dialog:


<!--[if IE 6]>
<script src="http://www.yourdomain.com/DD_belatedPNG.js"></script>
<script>
   DD_belatedPNG.fix('.png_fix');
</script>
<![endif]-->

Now select each of your rollovers and go to the Item>Extended menu
option, make sure the

tab is selected (not
) and
click New, in the dialog that appears add “class” in the Name field
and "png_fix’ in the Name field.

That should be all you need to do, I’d be interested to see how it
works out for you.

Joe

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I forgot to say, the code snippet I pasted contains http://www.yourdomain.com
, this needs to be replaced your your web address.

Joe

On 7 May 2009, at 15:42, Joe Billings wrote:

On 7 May 2009, at 15:11, igrover wrote:

Well, still having the same problem and now some new problems.

Concerning the original problem where the Highlight Current Page
Option was not working correctly, I found that when changing the
background image for the Main Menu settings I needed to first
select None for the background, then publish, then select my new
image and publish again to have it work correctly. I guess Freeway
needs to completely flush the old code to work correctly.

Odd, there are some internal resource issues that we have logged as
bugs, it could be these that are causing the problem.

Now for the new problems.

  1. I am having the old problem of the submenus being unclickable
    in my Windows IE6 browser even though I have a graphic selected for
    the background.

I don’t see this behaviour in IE6, do you have some steps I can
follow to see the problem?

  1. My CSS Rollover buttons do not show correctly in Windows IE6
    (they are png graphics) although the links attached to each button
    do work.

The PNG Transparency fix built into Freeway doesn’t work on CSS
backgrounds (what the CSS Rollover Action uses), there is a
potential fix for this though (I haven’t tested it with the Action
you’re using).

Go here:

http://www.dillerdesign.com/experiment/DD_belatedPNG/#release0.0.7a

and download either version (compressed or uncompressed). Change the
name to “DD_belatedPNG.js” once it’s downloaded.

In Freeway select an item on your index page and apply the Upload
Extra Resources Action:

ActionsForge - The Complete Repository of Freeway Actions

In the “With Page’s HTML” section select the file you downloaded.

On your Master pages go to the Page>HTML Markup menu and select
“After ” from the dropdown menu at the bottom of the HTML
Markup dialog (note there is no / in this, be careful not to choose
“After ” by mistake).

Paste the following code into the dialog:


<!--[if IE 6]>
<script src="http://www.yourdomain.com/DD_belatedPNG.js"></script>
<script>
 DD_belatedPNG.fix('.png_fix');
</script>
<![endif]-->

Now select each of your rollovers and go to the Item>Extended menu
option, make sure the

tab is selected (not
) and
click New, in the dialog that appears add “class” in the Name field
and "png_fix’ in the Name field.

That should be all you need to do, I’d be interested to see how it
works out for you.

Joe

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Is there a reason why a relative URL wouldn’t work here?

Walter

On May 7, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Joe Billings wrote:

I forgot to say, the code snippet I pasted contains http://www.yourdomain.com
, this needs to be replaced your your web address.

Joe

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They’re using folders so I used an absolute path so it didn’t need to
be changed on pages within them.

Joe

On 7 May 2009, at 15:51, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

Is there a reason why a relative URL wouldn’t work here?

Walter

On May 7, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Joe Billings wrote:

I forgot to say, the code snippet I pasted contains http://www.yourdomain.com
, this needs to be replaced your your web address.

Joe

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Thanks for all the info - I looked over the new steps required to produce the CSS graphic rollovers in IE6 and calculated out the additional time required for the project. I then informed the client about the additional cost and they decided not to pursue the fancy rollover graphics.

Now I just need to figure out how to get an HTML text box aligned up correctly with a graphic on the page to “simulate” the rollover affect -any suggestions? Maybe use the instructions on how to center a CSS menu within another HTML box, or place my HTML text box within another HTML"container" and then place that container within a table to ensure it aligns correctly?

Thanks in advance.

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