Edit CSS pop-up menus with Contribute?

le_bon · le_bon

Hello,

I'm wondering if it is possible to add and remove menu-items in CSS pop-up menus created in Fireworks 8 with Contribute 3?

Anyone?

Best, le_bon

mzanime.com · mzanime.com

No. However if you look into "Suckerfish" CSS flyout menus, you may be able to
do it that way. Suckerfish uses CSS to style a bulleted list which can become a
flyout menu. My advice is to put the bulleted list inside of a server side
include then call to it on each of your pages.

You can allow the Contribute user to edit the bulleted list (with hyperlinks
following each bullet of course) as an HTML page. But when the pages are viewed
from a browser the bulleted list (with help from CSS and a little javascript
for IE) will render as a flyout menu.

Check out this two exmples:

[url]http://cssdreams.com/xtras/scripts/flyout-menus.html[/url]
[url]http://cssdreams.com/xtras/scripts/flyout-menus2.html[/url]

More info:

[url]http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/[/url]

le_bon · le_bon

mzanime.com > Thanks, looks like i should try that! :)

Best,
le_bon

hottoddy · hottoddy

So... a little clarification, please. If we put the bulleted list in an html
file that becomes a server-side include...

a) how can the user navigate to the include file? i thought Contribute doesnt
have a FileMgr like DW does. I thought users just browse the site and click
'edit' whent they see the page they want to edit. Does Contribute let them just
click on the server-side include (the UL navbar), right there on the page
they're looking at, without using a file mgr?

b) Being a server-include, that file would have just <ul><li> etc.. no
<html><head><body> tags. So i assume Contribute does not add those tags in when
it saves the page back to the server? I have used a similar app (WebEdit Pro
from Interspire) that does exactly that.. incorrectly adds <html><head> etc,
which breaks the include, of course.

thanks in advance for any help.
todd

mzanime.com · mzanime.com

>> a) how can the user navigate to the include file? i thought Contribute
doesnt have a FileMgr like DW does. I thought users just browse the site and
click 'edit' whent they see the page they want to edit. Does Contribute let
them just click on the server-side include (the UL navbar), right there on the
page they're looking at, without using a file mgr?

They can't, you'd just have to provide a user with the includes URL. Also, I
recommend only ONE user know how to find this include. Otherwise you may have
problems, they might accidently remove it, or screw up its code, etc. Notice in
the examples I posted that the unordered list contains: <ul id="nav"> This ID
attribute is REQUIRED otherwise CSS can not select the list and apply styles to
it. So they should never delete the list and crate a new one, the list needs to
always remain, they should only add/remove individual links to it. Also, every
bullet must have a hyperlink, otherwise it'll render kinda skewed.

>> b) Being a server-include, that file would have just <ul><li> etc.. no

<html><head><body> tags. So i assume Contribute does not add those tags in when
it saves the page back to the server? I have used a similar app (WebEdit Pro
from Interspire) that does exactly that.. incorrectly adds <html><head> etc,
which breaks the include, of course.

No, from my experience Contribute does not add those type of tags.

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