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Hover/Mouseover Menus

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Submitted by grantkruger on Tue, 2009-05-26 23:28

In Drupal 6, which module do you guys think is best for hover/mouseover menus, i.e. where you expand a menu by simply hovering your mouse over the primary menu option. Nice Menus (http://drupal.org/project/nice_menus) is not the easiest to use and you need to know your CSS, but does the job. An example of a site using Nice Menus is none other than recovery.gov. However, is there anything better out there? I find many menu modules but most seem to force the user to click on a menu or involve images rather than text.

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I've used Nice Menus on

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jhedstrom - Tue, 2009-05-26 23:54

I've used Nice Menus on several sites in D6, and it works, but like you mentioned, I've always had to resolve a few issues with the particular theme/design in question. On the plus side, the module is still under active development, and is likely to stick around.


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No need for a module

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eternalistic - Wed, 2009-05-27 14:23

You don't really need a module to have dropdown menus on your site. All you need is a bit of CSS and this code to print your Primary Menu in the page.tpl.php file as a tree rather than single a level menu.

<?php print menu_tree($menu_name = 'primary-links'); ?>

And since the CSS is rather long I attached it below as a .txt file. This is just an example bit of CSS I created and use as a base when I develop dropdown menus. Hope this helps.

-Jeremy

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Eternalistic Designs - www.eternalistic.net
TopNotchThemes - www.topnotchthemes.com

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Dropdown CSS Code 3.31 KB

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Thanks guys. Always looking

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grantkruger - Wed, 2009-05-27 18:03

Thanks guys.

Always looking for that module that does a little more and has already dealt with more of the cross-browser issues.


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YUI Meu

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todd_tomlinson - Sat, 2009-05-30 14:33

Hi Grant et al --

I've had good luck with YUI menu -- although use nice menus on nearly every site. I didn't have to do anything to the CSS to have YUI menus working properly (unlike nice menus) -- but did touch up the CSS with colors that matched the site's theme (stock colors are grays). More than happy to do a quick overview of using YUI at an upcoming PDX meeting.

Todd Tomlinson
Managing Partner
aHa! Consulting
www.ahaconsulting.com


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