Submenu Disappearing

Poster: Sandy
Dated: Thursday March 4 2004 - 17:13:16 GMT

I suspect there is a solution for this problem somewhere in this massive forum, but an hour of searching hasn't revealed it. However, my search has revealed that there are some pretty helpful folks around here, so here goes!

One of my users was experiencing a problem with the old menu (unrelated, but still unsolved), so I came to Milonic to look for answers. I saw the new release of the menu and figured that would be the best thing to try first. After installing 5.04 over top of 5.0 RC 35, I noticed a problem using IE6.0.2800.1106, Win2000 & Win2000 Server. See the following page for an example:

http://twistypuzzles.com/menutest

Menu Code URLs:
http://twistypuzzles.com/menutest/old
http://twistypuzzles.com/menutest/new

The top version is the working version I was using yesterday. The bottom version is the one I'm using now. When I hover over "Puzzle Database" on the bottom (new) version, and then try to move to "Browse" (the first item in the submenu), the submenu containing the "Browse" option often disappears completely, or disappears for a fraction of a second then reappears. It seems very fickle. Moving slowly between the two options emphasizes the disappearance and reappearance.

This seems to happen with all three top level menu options, but seems worse on the "Puzzle Database" one for some reason. Perhaps because it is the only one which contains another level of submenu.

Something which may help reveal the issue is the following observation. Both menus are using copies of the exact same menu_data.js file, but the bottom (new) version doesn't have the 1 pixel shadow around it. I'm not sure why.

Please help!

Sandy

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday March 4 2004 - 21:47:28 GMT

I posted your code at http://www.west.asu.edu/sa/testsite/puzzle/ and made some changes...

1. Moved main menu code out of the <td> and back into the _data file.

2. Moved the _data call to the <td>.

3. Changed to position="absolute"; and removed the top and left items.

4. Inserted a bunch of missing ; in your aI statements (not the cause of the blinking).

Note I am calling the menu code files from your site. No more blink (it was failing here before I made the changes).

Poster: Sandy
Dated: Friday March 5 2004 - 15:37:44 GMT

Thank you very much for your help. Honestly, I'm still not sure what the problem was, but it's fixed now. I changed back to "relative", because I couldn't get the absolute to position propertly once reinserted back into my site design ( http://twistypuzzles.com ). Is there perhaps some reason that I shouldn't use relative positioning?

Other than that, everything was perfect.

Thanks again.