[Pro] Weird issues on a new site

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Finishing up a site (about 80% complete) and having some display issues. For some reason the menu bar will not hold on different monitors. 75% of the time it looks fine but on some monitors it wraps causing two lines?

Also, I just started having an issue (using css menus) where I can not navigate from the home page. I’m also getting little blue navigation arrows in the menu?

site: www.odyssey-products.com/newsite

any help or suggestions are very much appreciated. THANK YOU!

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getting little blue navigation arrows in the menu

Is it possible that you have selected to use an image in the Main Menu background settings on Hover.

on some monitors it wraps causing two lines

Different monitors/resolutions will render the text at different sizes - make sure that your width for the nav items is big enough to accommodate a couple of larger sizes of text.

David

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This is anyway strange, 'cause by the general use of the action, this normally cannot happen (if I’m correct in this).

The arrow seems to be the default blue arrow if you check “arrow” in the css-action and choose “blue”.

In the “background part” of the action you only can choose an image (and tile it xy, like it seems in this case)

So if you have an external image named “arrowBlue.png” uncheck tile xy - if not it is a curious mixture of settings.

#fwNav1 .fwNavItem:hover > span a, #fwNav1 .fwNavItem:hover > a { text-decoration:none; background:url(‘Resources/arrowBlue.png’) repeat; }
#fwNav1 .fwNavItem a:hover, #fwNav1 .fwNavItem span a:hover, #fwNav1 .fwNavItem a:focus { text-decoration:none; background:url(‘Resources/arrowBlue.png’) repeat; }

Unfortunately - you removed with what version you built this. Could you say something to this?

Cause the css-menu action makes me more than wonder.

By building a simple css-example for another list here, I haven’t have luck to get the following result with FWP 5.5.1:

http://www.kimmich-dm.de/extras/cssmenus/css543/index.html

So I finally built this in FWP 5.4.2(or3) and it worked.

OK - I thought just to open this 5.4.2(or3) in the 5.5.1 and reup this again. Guess what happened? This:

http://www.kimmich-dm.de/extras/cssmenus/css551/index55.html

(more or less the same that I got by complete construction in the newest FWP).

I know there were a lot of discussions about this action but finally I thought that all had been fixed - or am I wrong?

Thomas

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David & Thomas,

Thank you for the quick reply. I am using version 5.4.3, have not upgraded to 5.5 (waiting until I get this site done).

As for the main navigation menu I have chosen to use an image, the blue arrow is the stock arrow and I am only using it on the submenu.

Would I be better of deleting the navigation menu and completely re doing it?

As far as the text size is concerned I will take your advice David and increase the size of the cells. Would using the “use content width” feature work better?

Thank you again for the help.

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Hi,

then please check the following main menu settings:

and set the repeat to none, position center,center

As for the main navigation menu I have chosen to use an image, the blue arrow is the stock arrow and I am only using it on the submenu.

I actually do not see a reason to do this.

Would I be better of deleting the navigation menu and completely re doing it?

This could be one thing to do. But it won’t prevent you from this if you have entries like:

mississippishipcaptain (you know what I mean …)

As far as the text size is concerned I will take your advice David and increase the size of the cells. Would using the “use content width” feature work better?

Thank you again for the help.

The css-menu action settings are more than tricky sometimes and it took me hours to find out what happens with what setting. It all is a game between:

Textsize, Spacings left and right and content width. I presonal do not like different lenghts for main menu navigations (use content width) but this another (not important here) point.

Thomas

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Is there any way to “lock” the navigation menu to a specific size?

I’ve tried the site on several computers. On a few of them I had to adjust the text size down to medium in order to stop the “wrapping”.

Is it possible to lock the size of the menu?

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