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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

Gamelobby · #32 01-07-2009, 05:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive

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

Feel free..!!

You already have it in a PM and in my sig, but.. Gamelobby.com

UKBusinessLive · #33 01-07-2009, 05:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Feel free..!!

You already have it in a PM and in my sig, but.. Gamelobby.com

Thanks Buddy

wmlvb · #34 01-09-2009, 07:22 PM

Hey,

I appreciate you creating this so us newbies and see how and where to do this. I have been trying to fix tabs I already have that are messed up this helps point me in right direction.

UKBusinessLive · #35 01-09-2009, 07:27 PM

Thanks wmlvb

Its quite an easy system compared to a lot of others, Theres minimum Edits and since its pretty simple its a lot easier to explain.

Hope you enjoy it

UKBusinessLive · #36 01-17-2009, 09:13 PM

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

Super Jinni · #37 01-18-2009, 06:23 AM

Hi man,
this is really cool

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

the tabs change when you move through them according to the current one.

it might be a condition or something to set different color to the current page's tab.

hope you got what I mean.

thanks for your great work

UKBusinessLive · #38 01-18-2009, 07:47 AM

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

Super Jinni · #39 01-18-2009, 10:22 AM

OK, need to give that a shot.

I'm going to try that after taking some sleep cause I didn't sleep for more than 30 hours and now I'm seeing my computer two.

thanks man for your reply

UKBusinessLive · #40 01-18-2009, 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Super Jinni

OK, need to give that a shot.

I'm going to try that after taking some sleep cause I didn't sleep for more than 30 hours and now I'm seeing my computer two.

thanks man for your reply

let us know how you got on

brvheart · #41 01-19-2009, 12:40 AM

I have a question and a comment -

Comment first - thank you!! This is easy and works great!

Question - I did not want this in the header, so I put it in forumhome just above the main forums (placed below the ). This worked great, until I viewed it in safari - when I look at it in firefox - no problem, IE - no problems, Safari - throws the rest of the main table to the right - do you know how I would fix that?

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