Question on sub menu items not appearing.

leemark2k3 · September 14th, 2010, 12:44 PM

Hi Imar ive been through the book twice now and always ended up when i hover over my sub menu items with just a white block. I cant see any of the sub menu items such as say Reviews>All Reviews or Reviews>Genres or About>Contact Us, About>AboutUs. Can you tell me at what point in the book i seem to have missed where it explains how to change the site from just having a white block appear when you try to hover over menu items to showing all the sub menu items when i hover over them.

Im unsure how ive missed this twice.

Many thanks Lee

Imar · September 14th, 2010, 12:58 PM

Hi Lee,

You haven't missed anything in the book, but you did miss something in the errata: http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTit...Cd-ERRATA.html

Cheers,

Imar

leemark2k3 · September 14th, 2010, 01:51 PM

Ive had a good read and attempt at this for a while. Adding a
.IE8Fix

Code:

  11:         {

  12:             z-index: 100;

  13:         }

followed by a

Code:

<DynamicMenuStyle CssClass="IE8Fix" />

did not work.

With regards to option 2 as recommended here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/giorgio/arch...ite-issue.aspx

I have downloaded CSSFriendly.dll and CSSFriendlyAdapters.browser the recommdned site as step 1.
However could you please tell me how in my site i then:
" 2. Inside your project, add a reference to CSSFriendly.dll.
3. Add the special folder App_Browsers to your project, and copy the file CSSFriendlyAdapters.browser. "

Im particularly unsure what it means by adding a reference to CSSFriendly.dll.

Could you please tell me how to do that.
Hopefully i can get the white menu items to disappear then.

Lee

leemark2k3 · September 14th, 2010, 04:52 PM

Nevermind Imar. Ive solved this myself.

Hurrah!

Imar · September 14th, 2010, 05:10 PM

I wouldn't use the adapters. Instead, I would fix the problem at its root: in ASP.NET by installing the hot fix.

To help future visitors to this thread, would you mind sharing *how* you fixed it?

Imar

Cooler · February 17th, 2011, 07:11 AM

Hi Imar,

Have similiar issue with sub menus not showing.

Followed thread on advice and recoded CSS file for Monochrome(.DynamicMenuItemStyle) as:

Code:

.DynamicMenuItemStyle
{
	z-index: 1;	
             font-size: 14px;
	color: #707070;
	background-color: #cccccc;
	padding: 4px 2px 4px 3px;
}

This seemed to do the trick in that submenus displayed however the block background is a white, is this normal?

Imar · February 17th, 2011, 07:21 AM

Hi there,

Did you apply the fix as discussed here: IE8 and the Menu

Imar

Cooler · February 17th, 2011, 07:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Imar

Hi there,

Did you apply the fix as discussed here: IE8 and the Menu

Imar

Tried this but has regresssed to original problem.
Just to clarify as per link:
'Adding' another entry for DynamicMenuStyle to Master page as :

Code:

    <DynamicMenuStyle CssClass="DynamicMenuStyle" />
    <DynamicMenuStyle CssClass="DynamicMenuItemStyle" />

An also on CCS sheet:

Code:

.DynamicMenuStyle 
{
z-index: 1000;
}

.DynamicMenuItemStyle
{
	/* Defines the sub menu items */
	font-size: 14px;
	color: #707070;
	background-color: #cccccc;
	padding: 4px 2px 4px 3px;
}

Imar · February 17th, 2011, 07:50 AM

Not sure what you're saying or asking. Is it fixed now?

Code:

<DynamicMenuStyle CssClass="DynamicMenuStyle" />
<DynamicMenuStyle CssClass="DynamicMenuItemStyle" />

This won't work. You can only apply the style once.

Cheers,

Imar

Cooler · February 17th, 2011, 07:55 AM

dropping this back in:

Code:

.DynamicMenuItemStyle
{
	/* Defines the sub menu items */
	z-index: 1000;	
font-size: 14px;
	color: #707070;
	background-color: #cccccc;
	padding: 4px 2px 4px 3px;
}

Certainly brings the list back in view, but its the unaesthetic White background block thats the issue?