Added a ticket for the enhancement:
http://liftweb.lighthouseapp.com/projects/26102/tickets/24-create-lift-widget-for-drop-down-menus
Derek
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Derek Chen-Becker
<dchenbec...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Cool! If Dan can share some code that would help, but in any case I don't
> think this is going to be a huge chunk of code.
>
> Derek
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:52 AM, David Pollak <
> feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:50 AM, marius d. <marius.dan...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if we shouldn't provide this by the means of a Lift
>>> widget. Looks like a needed feature ...
>>>
>>> WDYT ?
>>>
>>
>> Sounds good to me.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Br's,
>>> Marius
>>>
>>> On Mar 19, 6:43 pm, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Derek Chen-Becker <
>>> dchenbec...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > This is something that has been asked before, but I don't think there
>>> was
>>> > > anything out there. I think that this would be a really nice feature,
>>> > > particularly if it could leverage the existing jQuery stuff. IIRC,
>>> the
>>> > > built-in Menu snippet doesn't render children at all unless the
>>> parent is
>>> > > the current selected page, so we would have to either modify that or
>>> we
>>> > > could code up a new MenuBar snippet that renders a "bar" instead of a
>>> UL
>>> > > like the current one.
>>> >
>>> > There's a way to ask for the entire menu rather than just the current
>>> view.
>>> > Dan O'Leary from Enthiosys did this for Innovation Games Online. I've
>>> > pinged him to see if he can share some of the code.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > > Derek
>>> >
>>> > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:21 AM, DavidV <david.v.villa...@gmail.com
>>> >wrote:
>>> >
>>> > >> I'm wondering if there is a built-in way to create drop-down menus
>>> > >> from a horizontal navbar using the Menu.builder method. These are
>>> the
>>> > >> relevant sections of my current template:
>>> >
>>> > >> <title>My Title<lift:Menu.title /> </title>
>>> > >> <lift:StyleSheet.entryForm />
>>> > >> <lift:StyleSheet.fancyType />
>>> > >> <script id="jquery" src="/classpath/jquery.js" type="text/
>>> > >> javascript"/>
>>> > >> <script id="json" src="/classpath/json.js"
>>> type="text/javascript"/
>>> >
>>> > >> <style>
>>> >
>>> > >> /* <![CDATA[ */
>>> > >> #navbar ul {
>>> > >> margin: 0;
>>> > >> padding: 2px;
>>> > >> list-style-type: none;
>>> > >> font-weight: bold;
>>> > >> text-align: center;
>>> > >> background-color: #C3D9FF;
>>> > >> }
>>> >
>>> > >> #navbar ul li {
>>> > >> display: inline;
>>> > >> }
>>> >
>>> > >> #navbar ul li a {
>>> > >> text-decoration: none;
>>> > >> padding: .2em 1em;
>>> > >> color: #000;
>>> > >> }
>>> >
>>> > >> #navbar ul li a:hover {
>>> > >> color: #fff;
>>> > >> background-color: #000;
>>> > >> }
>>> >
>>> > >> /* ]]> */
>>> >
>>> > >> </style>
>>> > >> </head>
>>> > >> <body>
>>> >
>>> > >> <div class="container">
>>> > >> <div style="text-align: center">
>>> > >> <br/>
>>> > >> <h1 class="alt">
>>> > >> Welcome to the Genomas DNA Banking Database </h1>
>>> > >> </div>
>>> > >> <hr/>
>>> >
>>> > >> <div id="navbar">
>>> > >> <ul>
>>> > >> <lift:Menu.builder />
>>> > >> </ul>
>>> > >> </div>
>>> >
>>> > >> <div class="column span-24 last">
>>> > >> <lift:bind name="content" />
>>> > >> </div>
>>> >
>>> > >> I have a couple links on my navbar that have sub-menu links. I have
>>> > >> constructed them in my Boot.scala file like this:
>>> > >> List(Menu(Loc("SampleLogging", List("samples", "samplelogs"),
>>> > >> "Browse Sample Logging"),
>>> > >> Menu(Loc("Individuals", List("individual", "individual"),
>>> > >> "Patient Demographics")),
>>> > >> Menu(Loc("Requisition", List("requisition",
>>> "requisition"),
>>> > >> "Requisitions")),
>>> > >> Menu(Loc("Samples2", List("samples", "samples"),
>>> > >> "Samples")))) :::
>>> > >> List(Menu(Loc("EditSamp", List("samples", "edit"), "Edit",
>>> > >> Hidden))) :::
>>> >
>>> > >> ...and so on.
>>> >
>>> > >> I would like to use some built-in tools to be able to make these
>>> sub-
>>> > >> menu items drop downs from the "parent" menu item without having to
>>> > >> build an entirely new complex table-based template. Does anyone
>>> know
>>> > >> of a way to accomplish this?
>>> >
>>> > >> Thanks,
>>> > >> David
>>> >
>>> > --
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>>> > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>> >>
>>
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