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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

cygy2k · #32 01-10-2009, 07:40 PM

I tried that too. I'll change it to it right now and take another screenshot.....

cygy2k · #33 01-10-2009, 07:43 PM

Same problem - just now it brings the logo and ad location....

UKBusinessLive · #34 01-10-2009, 08:05 PM

I guess its either the vBAdvanced integration, or the Google ad that must somehow interfere with the tabs.

I know its a long shot but i've noticed you have the Archive mod, The numbers at the bottom of youir Homepage footer, Now they are showing in your Header?

if you go to your Admin CP and Plugins & Products>Manage Products

Find that mod and as a temp measure just disable it and then check

cygy2k · #35 01-10-2009, 10:21 PM

I went through and disabled everything else I have running with the exception of vBAdvanced. I'm assuminng it's the integration with that as every page that doesn't have vBA integrated appears to be working correctly (Gallery, Social Groups, etc).

cygy2k · #36 01-10-2009, 10:22 PM

vBA has a place to put global variables, is there anything from your mod I could put there to make sure the scripts work together correctly?

UKBusinessLive · #37 01-10-2009, 10:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cygy2k

I went through and disabled everything else I have running with the exception of vBAdvanced. I'm assuminng it's the integration with that as every page that doesn't have vBA integrated appears to be working correctly (Gallery, Social Groups, etc).

I guess thats the problem, Can you not install it to your Forums as oppose the the VBa home page??

cygy2k · #38 01-10-2009, 10:53 PM

Is there a way to break the CSS part of your mod out and put in the regular CSS area of the Style Editor and have a call to it with the menu links in only the header or wherever? I think the problem revolves around the fact that your mod's HTML includes not typically needed things when using on a page (ie the XHTML info, header/body tags, etc).

UKBusinessLive · #39 01-11-2009, 12:17 AM

I'm not sure on that aspect of it, by all means play around with it and see

blkatt · #40 01-11-2009, 01:10 AM

I like the black tabs menu - but - is there a way to make the background transparent or a different color instead of black? I'm not suggesting changing the color of the tabs - just the background.

Thanks - nice work.:up:

cygy2k · #41 01-11-2009, 01:33 AM

FYI - I moved the CSS info to the style editor "additional css" box and added only the part between the divs (the part that shows the desired links) to the header and it works perfectly. I've seen this sort of thing done on other mods and it is probably the true way of doing it so as to keep the templates as clean as possible.

Either way, it works great!

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