Comments on: Help needed for 2-Level Horizontal menu!

By: adnan

adnan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:30:07 +0000

Thank you so much for your help. It working now on IE8 yaaaaaaaah

By: joe

joe — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:26:43 +0000

I made a slight change to the CSS, this may fix it for IE8, but no promises. Unfortunately, I just upgraded my system and haven’t had the time to put IE8 on it (just 6 + 7).

By: adnan

adnan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:12:45 +0000

Internet Explorer 8 breaking the nav

http://134.74.236.60/~web1tue09/projects/m_islam/ie8-prob.gif

Right now I’m ignoring this problem

By: adnan

adnan — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:04:03 +0000

Thank you Joe for prompt support. You are the best. It works now.

The main reason behind highlighting a sub node was, to let user know which page they are currently visiting. I was not interested to use any additional page heading for this purpose. But I am not sure how user will react with this. Surely I’m going to ask few of my friends and I will see how comfortable they are with this.

Thank you again.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:34:32 +0000

Just so you know, I actually think the above example is unclear from the users point of view. I would personally take out the “interactivity” that lets the user view the different sub-navigation.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:24:06 +0000

I’m not totally clear on what you are looking for, but…
If you are loading every page via Ajax this will break the back button in most cases which is a major problem for usability.
If, on the other hand you just need the navigation to give feedback as to the current page you might do something like this:
http://understandingnewmedia.com/webpro/examples/subnav-example.html
The above works for all modern browsers using just CSS. To make it work for IE6 I’m loading Dean Edwards’ ie7.js script which adds things like the hover pseudo-class to elements other than the anchor element in ie6. More about that here: http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/