Changing DW's dropdown nav background from a solid colorto an image?

[Morgan19]

I've used Dreamweaver MX's rather handy dropdown Javascript menu creation
abilities for a few years and have always found it to be incredibly easy to
understand. However, I need to try something new: I'm working on a site with
dropdown navigation, as usual, but instead of using the solid color DW sets for
when you rollover one of the menus, I'd like to have an image instead. For
example, instead of hovering over a button, having the dropdown appear, and
then having the menu items turn green when you mouse over them, I'd like their
background to turn to a floral graphic (or something, that's just an example).
Is there a simple way to change that in the code? In the Javascript for the
dropdown menus, would it be as easy as changing the background color from a hex
value to an image path instead?

Thanks,
m19

[Murray *TMM*]

> handy

That's a strange word to describe such a broken function. I hope I have
caught you in time. Please read these -

[url]http://apptools.com/rants/jsmenu.php[/url]
[url]http://apptools.com/rants/menus.php[/url]


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"Morgan19" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I've used Dreamweaver MX's rather handy dropdown Javascript menu creation
> abilities for a few years and have always found it to be incredibly easy
> to
> understand. However, I need to try something new: I'm working on a site
> with
> dropdown navigation, as usual, but instead of using the solid color DW
> sets for
> when you rollover one of the menus, I'd like to have an image instead. For
> example, instead of hovering over a button, having the dropdown appear,
> and
> then having the menu items turn green when you mouse over them, I'd like
> their
> background to turn to a floral graphic (or something, that's just an
> example).
> Is there a simple way to change that in the code? In the Javascript for
> the
> dropdown menus, would it be as easy as changing the background color from
> a hex
> value to an image path instead?
>
> Thanks,
> m19
>

[Morgan19]

*shrug*

It's always worked for me and it gets the job done quickly... That first link
looks like an interesting read but probably won't help to get what I need done;
it appears the second link offers alternatives but possibly coding tips. I'll
check into that one, but my main goal here, since I already have the menus
created, is to simply change the background color to a background.

Thanks for the info,
m19

[Murray *TMM*]

> It's always worked for me

That only means you haven't tested it in modes where it would fail.

> and it gets the job done quickly

If you are satisfied with the half-baked job it does, then that's all that
really matters.

> is to simply change the background color to a background.

There is no provision in the UI to specify that. You would have to manually
hack into the mm_menu.js file and add it to the document writes in there.

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"Morgan19" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> *shrug*
>
> It's always worked for me and it gets the job done quickly... That first
> link
> looks like an interesting read but probably won't help to get what I need
> done;
> it appears the second link offers alternatives but possibly coding tips.
> I'll
> check into that one, but my main goal here, since I already have the menus
> created, is to simply change the background color to a background.
>
> Thanks for the info,
> m19
>

[Morgan19]

I'm glad you feel like arguing with me or showing me the "error of my ways",
but it really isn't helping.

> There is no provision in the UI to specify that. You would have to manually
> hack into the mm_menu.js file and add it to the document writes in there.

Yes, exactly. I realize there's no way to do it directly in Dreamweaver,
otherwise I would've had it done by now. (I'm beginning to think I should've
never mentioned DW in the first place, as you seem to be fixated on preaching
to me how horrible it is when that was never my question in the first place.)

Perhaps I should rephrase the question: how is it possible to change the
background color to a background image directly from the code? If you don't
know, maybe someone else might.

m19

[Murray *TMM*]

I told you how to do that in my last post, no?

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"Morgan19" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I'm glad you feel like arguing with me or showing me the "error of my
> ways",
> but it really isn't helping.
>

> > There is no provision in the UI to specify that. You would have to
> > manually
> > hack into the mm_menu.js file and add it to the document writes in
> > there.

>
> Yes, exactly. I realize there's no way to do it directly in Dreamweaver,
> otherwise I would've had it done by now. (I'm beginning to think I
> should've
> never mentioned DW in the first place, as you seem to be fixated on
> preaching
> to me how horrible it is when that was never my question in the first
> place.)
>
> Perhaps I should rephrase the question: how is it possible to change the
> background color to a background image directly from the code? If you
> don't
> know, maybe someone else might.
>
> m19
>

[Morgan19]

No, you didn't. You said "You would have to manually hack into the mm_menu.js
file and add it to the document writes in there." That's like telling someone
who asks for directions "Well, you have to keep driving and eventually you'll
get there."

I'm looking for something a little more detailed...

m19

[Murray *TMM*]

> I'm looking for something a little more detailed...

Did you look in mm_menu.js?

The problem with such questions is that since none of the experienced people
use, or encourage others to use, these menus, the quality of help for
questions like this is pretty poor. This is particular true when you are
asking for a step by step guide.

Perhaps you could try wrapping the call in the body of the page to the
loadmenus function in a div, and then writing a CSS rule to style only the
divs within that div to use a background image.

The problem is that something like this would be trivially simple were you
using a 'legitimate' menu system. However, it's your gun and your foot as
they say....

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"Morgan19" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> No, you didn't. You said "You would have to manually hack into the
> mm_menu.js
> file and add it to the document writes in there." That's like telling
> someone
> who asks for directions "Well, you have to keep driving and eventually
> you'll
> get there."
>
> I'm looking for something a little more detailed...
>
> m19
>