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UKBL- Easy Menu Tabs · **Released**: 01-03-2009

UKBL- Easy Menu Tabs

I've been playing around with creating some Menu Tabs for the top of the forums, These ones do not mess up your CSS or use Javascript and you can have it set up and running on your forums in minutes.

Credits: Christopher Ware ~ Thanks

DEMO: http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/demo.html

Members Site Live Demo's:
http://www.gamelobby.com/Forum/
http://www.itproservices.net/forums/...php?styleid=10

I've done this in a neutral color, so it'll be fine for light colored forums, I will add some darker ones and a black one later if requested

So what do you do???

Installation is sooooo simple your gonna love this, First you need to open the html file with notepad or similar, and make a few edits, Mainly the location of the 2 gif's and the links to the urls or onsite links.

so in Note pad look for this..

Code:

 background:url("tableft1.gif") no-repeat left top;

and change the word tableft1.gif to the directory you have your images in, if you use photobucket or a similar storage site then your code would look something like this

Code:

 background:url("http://i4875.photobucket.com/albums/rr1/ukbusinesslive/tableft1.gif") no-repeat left top;

Then you look for the other one here

Code:

background:url("tabright1.gif") no-repeat right top;

and basically do the same as the first edit.

So thats it with the gif edits, you still need to scroll further down to the menu edits

here

Code:

                       <ul>
                                <!-- CSS Tabs -->
<li id="current"><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/topsite/"><span>Forums Topsite</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/group.php?"><span>Social Groups</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/online.php?"><span>Who's Online</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/ukbuli-21"><span>UKBL Bookstore</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/usercp.php"><span>Your CP</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/memberlist.php"><span>Member List</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/"><span>UK Business Live</span></a></li>

basically you can have as many tabs as you need and you change the navigation from the top code, its pretty easy to do, First you add the Url of the site or link that you want tabbed, Then paste it to the first part of the tab, Then after you write the name of the tab, Easy

if you want extra tabs just add another line like this

Code:

<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/memberlist.php"><span>Member List</span></a></li>

Cut and Paste the HTML Code to the header template of your style, and upload the gifs to your chosen directory, be it /images/misc or even photobucket.

For Dark Colored Sites

If your Site is Black or has a Black Background you'll want black tabs like this

Then you'll have to Download the Black_ Tabs.zip This include a new code that you need to edit as well as the 2 Black Gifs to get the correct colour. Instructions are the same as above

Please Click install if you like it

If you want to see a nice collection of downloadable Menu Tabs, Veiw My Post in the Graphics forum, and download what you need

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...79#post1704379

vBAdvanced Integration

Ther seem to be a slight problem with users that use vBAdvanced Integration

Quote:

A problem I'm having when I put this in the header template is that I click on a thread and it comes up with the menu tabs down where the thread should be instead of the thread.

Could it be a problem with having vBAdvanced integration?

The cure is quite simple, all you need to do when you've edited your code is to cut it in half and put the CSS element into the additional CSS box in your Style manger's "additional CSS" box, Then the last bit, the part which contains the menu links (See below)

Code:

</style>
                </head>

                <body>
                        
                        <div id="tabsH">
                                <ul>
                                        <!-- CSS Tabs -->
<li id="current"><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/topsite/"><span>Forums Topsite</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/group.php?"><span>Social Groups</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/online.php?"><span>Who's Online</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/ukbuli-21"><span>UKBL Bookstore</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/usercp.php"><span>Your CP</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/memberlist.php"><span>Member List</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/"><span>UK Business Live</span></a></li>

                                </ul>
                        </div>
                </body>
</html>

Thats the part which just goes at the VERY end of your header.

Enjoy VBa Members

To Open in new Browser Window

To get the link to open in a new browser window, what you do is add the target="_blank" attribute to your link tag, like this in your Menu Links area

<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/" target="_blank">UK Business Live</a></li>

If you do that to the ones that you want to open in a new window, then you don't navigate away from your site

Changing individual Tab Font Colors

You can add some html markup between the where the tab name is

Just change the first Value to

Code:

<span style="color:Green">

So your Menu Line would look something like this

Code:

<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/topsite/"><span style="color:Green">Forums Topsite</span></a></li>

Hope that helps, just change the color Green, for a color of your choice

You could use a tab with a different color text to point to your Paypal Account and call it donations

Worth a try

Tab Color Changes on Hover

Quote:

I have a request though

if you can make the current page's tab be in another color just like when hover it, it will be great.
just like vbulletin.org here.
you can see it yourself

You need to add a span attribute to the CSS

Dependant on what tab design you are using, find the following in the code

Code:

   #tabs1 a:hover {
      background-position:0% -42px;
      }

and change it to this

Code:

#tabs1 a:hover span {
       color:#000000;
      background-position:0% -42px;
      }

Where #000000 (hex Code for Black) is the new color that you want, so now you should have the tabs show up as normal and when you hover the cursor over them with the above hex code the text will be BLACK

Just change this color hex to whatever hex color you want

Enjoy

UKBusinessLive · #22 01-05-2009, 05:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by soundbarrierpro

Hi, it's not working for me in the script. If you could make exactly what you have in your demo but with this color as the tab outline #0B198C.

Thank you, greatly appreciated

Hi Soundbarrierpro

Been trying to edit the gifs with that color hex but its not quite working, may need to tweak a bit beore finally mastering the art, However

I've build a new set of tabs based on the dark blue of your hex.

let me know what you think

soundbarrierpro · #23 01-05-2009, 05:52 PM

Perfect. Colors are fine. Thanks you for your great work.

UKBusinessLive · #24 01-05-2009, 05:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by soundbarrierpro

Perfect. Colors are fine. Thanks you for your great work.

Your most welcomed Sir

Glad you liked it :up:

Coleccromos · #25 01-05-2009, 05:58 PM

Just a question!

Which would have put the code "<center>" buttons to focus.

I am working to give a new format to my forum and I find this very interesting modification

Congratulations!

UKBusinessLive · #26 01-05-2009, 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coleccromos

Just a question!

Which would have put the code "<center>" buttons to focus.

I am working to give a new format to my forum and I find this very interesting modification

Congratulations!

Thanks,

I think you mean how do you center the tabs ??

You need to change the value in Red, By trial and error, until you see the buttons in the Center. It will vary from forum to forum as people may have different button sizes and the amount of tabs may vary, so you need to edit this part of the code (in red) to centralise your tabs

Quote:

#tabs1 {
float:centre;
width:100%;
background:#F4F7FB;
font-size:93%;
line-height:normal;
border-bottom:1px solid #BCD2E6;
}
#tabs1 ul {
margin:0;
padding:10px 10px 0 300px;
list-style:none;
}
#tabs1 li {
display:inline;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#tabs1 a {
float:left;
background:url("http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr114/ukbusinesslive/tableft1.gif") no-repeat left top;
margin:0;
padding:0 0 0 4px;
text-decoration:none;
}
#tabs1 a span {
float:left;
display:block;
background:url("http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr114/ukbusinesslive/tabright1.gif") no-repeat right top;
padding:5px 15px 4px 6px;
color:#627EB7;

Hope that helps

Coleccromos · #27 01-05-2009, 06:31 PM

It's perfect!
If I need to put more buttons and modify this information to my taste

Thanks for the work

Congratulations!

UKBusinessLive · #28 01-05-2009, 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coleccromos

It's perfect!
If I need to put more buttons and modify this information to my taste

Thanks for the work

Congratulations!

Hola Coleccromos

Just add another line of code under your button menu's like this

Code:

<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/memberlist.php"><span>Member List</span></a></li>

Just paste it underneath the others, you can have 1 or 100's

Enjoy

soundbarrierpro · #29 01-05-2009, 07:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive

You need to change the value in Red, By trial and error, until you see the buttons in the Center. It will vary from forum to forum as people may have different button sizes and the amount of tabs may vary, so you need to edit this part of the code (in red) to centralise your tabs

Won't this change though based on each computer user's screen size and resolution though?

For instance, my resolutions is 1152x864. If I make the adjustments, won't it look wierd on yours if you are set to 800x600?

UKBusinessLive · #30 01-05-2009, 07:13 PM

Yes thats why i don't save the code centralised by default, but if people want to put their tabs in the center, then at least they'll know what value to change in the code, Like you said different resolutions will make a difference, what it boils down is personal preference, i guess.

UKBusinessLive · #31 01-06-2009, 03:29 PM

***************Update**************

Just to let everyone know i will be adding a variety of different styles of tabs this week and i'll be uploading them shortly, This will allow members to select tabs which compliment their forums in all different colors rather than the default Neutral and Black one.

There should be about 30 different styles, so it shouldn't be hard to choose one for your forums.

If anyone needs more info or help to get started, please don't hesitate to post and i'll help where i can.

If you've uploaded your tabs to your site and are happy with them and want to show off

PM me with a link to your site and i'll add it to the Live Demo List to show other members what can be acheived.

Thanks Guys

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