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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>
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