21 #menu?

Hi, I’m just wondering what id “#menu” is referring to in your writeup. When I tried to build an example page while following with the tutorial, the menu doesn’t look right in IE.

• html #menu ul li { float: left; }

• html #menu ul li a { height: 1%; }

But I noticed in the actual code of your examples you have this:

• html ul li { float: left; }

• html ul li a { height: 1%; }

Can you clarify?

posted at 11:18 am on June 29, 2004 by Lisa Clarkson

22 Oops

I left out the other “height: 1%” in my last post but you get the idea. Thank you for the article. The menu on Naarvonen is indeed a pretty alternative, it isn’t so helpful for people that need a tutorial written in English.

posted at 11:21 am on June 29, 2004 by Lisa Clarkson

23 I like it

I liked your article. I have had many clients that have requested these types of dropdowns. Plus I have used these dropdowns on internal intranets, and they work great.

Thank you for the article.

posted at 12:07 pm on June 29, 2004 by Blake Scarbrough

24 re: #menu?

Lisa……you have spotted a mistake! The #menu belongs to a div that was wrapped around the menu. I removed it, but looks like it’s been left in the article (my fault!). I have requested the change.

posted at 12:09 pm on June 29, 2004 by Nick Rigby

25 re: why write a duplicate article

This article is a perfectly valid addition to ALA, as has been proved here by the people who found it useful.

There is more to ALA than cutting edge, hot off the press techniques for poncey web developers. Its appeal to working web professionals is what makes the magazine so popular.

posted at 12:10 pm on June 29, 2004 by Andrew Hume

26 re: hover behavior

Yeah, I just tried this and it’s quite slick. Avoids JS it seems. Nice link…

posted at 12:16 pm on June 29, 2004 by Nathan Olson

27 re: why write a duplicate article

I didn’t mean anything against the generosity of the person that wrote the article… they did a fine job… but it seriously seemed to be EXACTLY the same article, just horiZontally rendered. Do we need two brands of chocolate chip cookies that taste exactly the same but are arranged in the package by rows instead of columns?

The problem is that everyday we are bombarded by too much info as it is, and would prefer not to waste my time on dupicate info coming from the SAME site…

…and I have to READ the damned thing before I know I should have skipped it (cause I keep thinkin ‘ok, there’s going to be something different coming soon’)

In the end, I appreciate those that take the effort to contribute… but are we really contributing here?

-still a bastard (but actually a swell guy)

posted at 12:23 pm on June 29, 2004 by Nick Franceschina

28 re: why write a duplicate article

Well, Nick Franceschina, I personally was grateful to find an article on the horizontal rendering of the menu, instead of the vertical.

Now play nice.

posted at 12:38 pm on June 29, 2004 by joel

29 Select tag overlap in IE

Does anybody know of any javascript that will disable or hide the select element tag?

The problem only occurs in IE when the dropdown menu overlaps a select tag in form. It appears that nother will override the z-index of the select tag in IE exept to hide it.

posted at 12:52 pm on June 29, 2004 by Blake Scarbrough

30 re: why write a duplicate article

Nick… if time is so precious to you, why do you bother to waste even more time complaining? This article helped a lot of people.

Perhaps this article didn’t help you or perhaps you think you could have figured it out yourself without this article. Does that mean because you personally didn’t find it useful that this article should not be published? Give me a break.

This site was not made to please you, it’s for a general audience of web professionals/developers/designers to learn something new, and with this article, many people learned something practical to apply to their applications.

posted at 01:07 pm on June 29, 2004 by Weixi Yen