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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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Old 10-16-2006, 03:53 AM
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anyone has any live examples?
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Old 10-17-2006, 09:30 AM
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this was very very useful for me, thanks. Had problems though in-which my theme didn't have the actual navbar button in the navbar template. But I was able to figure it all out
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Old 10-27-2006, 03:19 PM
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This worked like a charm.....I tried figuring it out myself then gave up and came over here and did a search.

Thanks for the help
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What if I just want a menu to show up in one particular forum?

<if condition="$show[('$forumid ==7')]">

Like that or no?
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Old 11-01-2006, 03:26 PM
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Thank you for this hack ... works Great!!
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Ultimately, when I try to make it a dropdown menu, it messes up on me. Instead of just my menu coming up, it makes my forum come up. It's annoying, how do I fix that?
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what code are you using? Please post your code in tags and if possible provide a link to somewhere where this is happening.
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Thanks for this tutorial Kerry-Anne , I decided to make a (static) forum jump menu from it.
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Thanks for this tutorial Kerry-Anne , I decided to make a (static) forum jump menu from it.
can you share how you did that?
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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
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