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UKBL ~ Quality Drop Down Menu System

You wanted Drop down Menu's that were easy to install and edit, Well now you've got it

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Compatible with almost ALL Browsers.

Hi Guys, i've had so many messages about My "Easy Menu Tabs" and when was i going to do Dropdown Tabs, Well i've listened and now i can happily add UKBL ~ Quality Drop Down menu's to our list of modifications.

This is just so easy to edit and install, as long as you feel confident with a few simple edits and uploading a graphics file to your images directory or even your photobucket account, if you don't want to mess about uploading to your server.

UKBL ~ Quality Drop Downs sit quite happily on top of your forums accessable from all pages of the forum



They look like any bog standard Menu Nav bar but when you hover the mouse over it you'll see the dropdowns, I've uploaded a test version to my forum, Take a look for yourselves http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum

I've left the Top White Easy Men Bar in place also so you can compare both of them.

When you go over the menu bar the dropdowns should appear like in the picture below



See how the chosen links are highlighted

So now we come to the installation stage.

Download the dropdown.zip file below and open the VBOrg_Menu.txt file in notepad or any other text editor, as we need to edit a few files.

The first one we need to edit is the url of our Graphic File, So to cut a long story short we'll upload our graphic file to our Photobucket account, or any other account or image directory on your server, So firstly find

	/*"""""""" (MAIN) Container Edit Picture URL Here :-) """"""""*/	
	#qm0	
	{	
		padding:5px;
		background-image:url(http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr114/ukbusinesslive/center_tile_blue.gif);
		border-width:1px;
		border-style:solid;
		border-color:#eeeeee;
	}

and this is the line we need to edit, so that it gives us a nice gradiant blue acdcross the menu bar

background-image:url(http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr114/ukbusinesslive/center_tile_blue.gif);

Just replace the url within the brackets ( ) and thats it

Then we go and do the menu edits, You don't want your members click on your forum menu and ending up on my site :erm: So what we need to do now is change the menu links for yours, It take about 15 min's but its not hard to do, so lets do it.....

First find where our menu starts, This will be right at the bottom of the code, The HTML part of this and the first bit we need to change starts from here...

 <li><a class="qmparent" href="javascript:void(0)">MY CONTROL PANEL</a>

		<ul>
		<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/profile.php?do=editavatar" title="Edit Avatar">Edit Avatar</a></li>
		<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/profile.php?do=editsignature" title="Edit Signature">Edit Signature</a></li>
		<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/profile.php?do=editoptions" title="Edit Options">Edit Options</a></li>
		<li><span class="qmdivider qmdividerx" ></span></li>
		<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/subscription.php?do=viewsubscription" title="List Subscriptions">List Subscriptions</a></li>
		</ul></li>

Basically each tab is made up of a block like what you see above, You have the Main Tab Description which looks like this

<li><a class="qmparent" href="javascript:void(0)">MY CONTROL PANEL</a>

and you have all the sub links underneath and they look like this...

<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/profile.php?do=editavatar" title="Edit Avatar">Edit Avatar</a></li>

and its this one which we need to edit, basically if you want to keep the same link, all you need to do is to chasnge my url http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum to your forums URL, and thats it, your link should work for your site.

If you want to change the link altogether and put your own, then replace the full URL with one that you want and don't forget to edit the end part "Edit Avatar" as that is the title thats shown on the dropdown.

When you've finished all your editing, we need to upload this whole code to your Header Template of the Style that your Currantly using on your forum, So once you've saved your edited code, Just copy and paste directly to your Header, Go right to the end and click paste, save the template and thats it, The Graphic File which you need to upload to your server or image host is also in the zip file.

So easy and a great improvement to any VBulletin Forum

This is a Freebie for all you members on VB.org with my compliments

If anyone wants any custom menus made, Just PM me I'll help where i can, Just bear in mind a menu like this takes a good couple of hours or so, so a donation is more than welcomed

Oh almost Forgot guys,

If you like it, Please Click on Installed, as this really does motivate me to improving these hacks

UPDATE 09.02.09

Uploaded a New Zip File, Black Menu.Zip This is the same as this original except that its black for darker Websites and Forums, Instructions are the same as above, and comes complete with customised Graphics which will need to be uploaded to your /images/ directory.



UPDATE 23.02.09

For some of you Admins who prefer menu Buttons as opposed to a menu bar, i've made some buttons based on the above menu formate, You can install it by following the same instructions as the main install, Just upload the graphics and edit your menu links and thats it.

Experiment with the css to change colors width of boxes etc, Add more or as little as you want, the important thing is to have fun learning.



UPDATE: 26th April 2009

Centering the Menu so that it appears central

There has been much debate about trying to centralise the menu tabs, I didn't want to edit the code too much as this would make a mess of it in different browsers, However i've found that there is a way

The easiest way to center menu content is to place it inside of a center aligned table, as shown below:

<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 align="center"><tr><td>

----[ your menu structure]----

</td></tr></table>

This way the menu tabs will appear central in all browsers.

Hope this helps :up:



Enjoy

[davida500]

The problem comes when it's put into a window though. Full screen it's fine, but when the window becomes smaller than the navbar, instead of getting cut off it goes to a new line.

[sinistergaming]

Nice just what we needed

[Alucard^]

Hi man, good modification... installed ofcourse.

And here an example: http://www.nv-arg.com.ar/foro/

Also, i have a request, how can i do to drop the menu when you click in the button and not by a mouseover? Thx to much.

[Scalemotorcars]

Installed and heavily modded. Here's an example. http://www.scalemotorcars.com/forum/


Changes

Ive used the nested menus already built into the mod. Would be nice if that was clearer in the instructions. also, rather then have all that code in the header template I crated another template and just called it into the header.

Also moved most of the JS and CSS into one file with the rest of my extra code.

Thanks for this mod its much cleaner then VB's menu. :up:

[yotsume]

Originally Posted by Scalemotorcars

Installed and heavily modded. Here's an example. http://www.scalemotorcars.com/forum/


Changes

Ive used the nested menus already built into the mod. Would be nice if that was clearer in the instructions. also, rather then have all that code in the header template I crated another template and just called it into the header.

Also moved most of the JS and CSS into one file with the rest of my extra code.

Thanks for this mod its much cleaner then VB's menu. :up:

It would be nice to know with clear instructions how you moved the JS and CSS, etc...

RIGHT SIDE SUB-MENU OFF SCREEN ISSUE
It would be nice to have the right side sub-menu problem addressed. In your site you have a sub-menu that opens off screen! Your right side sub-menus for your Forum FAQ and Gallery FAQ open off screen because they pop up off to the right. We need an open to have the right side sub-menus pop up off to the left of the menu so they stay on screen!

See Attached Screen Shot of Sub-Menu Problem

Anyone have a solution to this bug/issue??? My laptop screen resolution is set at: 1280 x 800 Without the option to open a sub-menu to the right or the left of a drop menu there will always be of screen problems. This hack needs code added so we can choice to have a sub-menu open to the left of a drop menu. Anyone have a way to do this?

[KID_1194]

nice modification buddy ... but conditions must be added to the menu
in order to restrict the view of items .. what I mean is that you should use the if condition to make things only shown to members ..

Best regards

[Scalemotorcars]

Im sure that can be done and Ill mess with it when I have more time. :up:

As for the CSS I already had a Css file I used for extra code so I just added it to the bottom. Im sure you could do the same by adding it to the (extra CSS) in the style editor.

Same for the JS, I just added it to another JS that was global.

I did leave some of the JS in place because it seems to be location specific. Example.

right before this line.....

<ul id="qm0" class="qmmc">
	<li><a class="qmparent" href="javascript:void(0)">First button title</a>

I kept this in place.

<!--%%%%%%%%%%%% Quality Menu Styles [Keep in head for full validation!] %%%%%%%%%%%-->
<!-- Add-On Core Code (Remove when not using any add-on's) -->
<style type="text/css">.qmfv{visibility:visible !important;}.qmfh{visibility:hidden !important;}</style>

And at the very end of the menu code I kept this line in place.

<!-- Create Menu Settings: (Menu ID, Is Vertical, Show Timer, Hide Timer, On Click (options: 'all' * 'all-always-open' * 'main' * 'lev2'), Right to Left, Horizontal Subs, Flush Left, Flush Top) -->
<script type="text/javascript">qm_create(0,false,0,500,false,false,false,false,false);</script>

All other Js and Css was moved to global files respectively.

[Scalemotorcars]

Originally Posted by KID_1194

nice modification buddy ... but conditions must be added to the menu
in order to restrict the view of items .. what I mean is that you should use the if condition to make things only shown to members ..


Best regards

Yep, Ive already tried it and it works fine. Need to put it back thanks for the reminder.

[gscimbomcom]

Nice work, thnx!

[bluej]

great mod, thanks so much

can you tell me how to make the text bold, i did search the thread but can not find where it has been asked...i know this is a simple question but not sure at the moment i am brain dead, hehe

thanks again