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How To Add Drop Down Menus To Your Navbar
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peterska2 peterska2 is offline 07-29-2006, 10:00 PM
I think everyone has encountered the situation at some point or other where their navbar has got very cluttered and they are faced with either adding yet another navbar, or adding some dropdown menus to group some items.

This tutorial explains how to create an additional drop down menu in your navbar.

Firstly, locate in your navbar template the first instace of
Code:
<if condition="$show['popups']">
and add after it
Code:
<td id="custommenu" class="vbmenu_control">
    <a href="#">Custom Menu</a>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        vbmenu_register("custommenu");
    </script>
</td>
Replace Custom Menu with the title for this menu which you want displayed on your navbar and custommenu with the name that you want to give your link. Note that spaces are not to be used as this will break the connection with the actual menu.

Next, in your navbar template find
Code:
<!-- NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->
and add after it
Code:
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="custommenu_menu" style="display:none">
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
        <tr>
            <td class="thead">Custom Menu</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td class="vbmenu_option" title="nohilite">
content row
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
Again replace custommenu with the name given to your link. Make sure that you leave the _menu after it as this identifies it as the menu part of the link. Also replace Custom Menu again with the title that you have used for your link.

The content row should be replaced with the actual menu item that you want to have in your new drop down menu.

Repeat the code
Code:
<tr>
            <td class="vbmenu_option" title="nohilite">
content row
</td>
</tr>
as required to add additional links onto your menu.

If you wish to break your menu into sections like the quicklinks use then add
Code:
<tr>
            <td class="thead">Custom Menu</td>
        </tr>
everywhere that you wish to add a new header.

The content added should be in the normal html format for links.



If you wish to add more than one menu, repeat the process for each one, ensuring that you use a different name for each menu otherwise they will not function correctly.


I hope you find this useful.
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That would be done by just adding a link to each of your forums into a dropdown created using the method shown in post #1
Exactly, I just used an html editor to create all the tables and then manually added all the forums to it.
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I would like to add another navbar on top of the one that I already have, and use the dropdown menus like that. Is this possible to do? I already have an extra navbar with links to various parts of my website, but none of them have dropdown menus.
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One thing I don't understand is why you set it to "nohilite". Why not have it highlighted? The quick links dropdown menu has it on..It looks messy with some highlightable and others not, right?
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I don't know why I did that. Must have been linked to a style I was working on at the time. Just might out that bit and it will work like the Quick Links with highlighting.
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Nice post this will help me in the future.
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Thank you works perfectly.

Just one question. Where would I put the code to make the custom menu show up to the right of the quick links. Inbetween the quick links and the log out area. Would I jsut move the first piece of code?
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Yes, just move the first piece to the place you want it to show.
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Thanks for the guide!
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Hi, Im having some trouble getting this to work. I managed to add the following codes into my navbar. Now the question is how do I create the actual link?
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What code have you added and what are you trying to do?
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