Derek let me know if you want to own this ... otherwise I'll take it
if no one else claims it ... after I'm added to the "magic" owner list
on lighthouse :D

On Mar 19, 7:04 pm, Derek Chen-Becker <dchenbec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Added a ticket for the enhancement:
>
> http://liftweb.lighthouseapp.com/projects/26102/tickets/24-create-lif...
>
> 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
>
> >>> > --
> >>> > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net
> >>> > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890
> >>> > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp
> >>> > Git some:http://github.com/dpp
>
> >> --
> >> Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net
> >> Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890
>
> >> Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp
> >> Git some:http://github.com/dpp
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