rickylau

I have a question about dropdown menus. I want to create a dropdown menu using css and html list. Something like this:

<div id="navcontainer">

<ul id="navlist">

<li id="active"><a href="#" id="current">Item one</a>

<ul id="subnavlist">

<li id="subactive"><a href="#" id="subcurrent">Subitem one</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Subitem two</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Subitem three</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Subitem four</a></li>

</ul>

</li>
<li><a href="#">Item two</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item three</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item four</a></li>

</ul>

</div>

The problem is that I don't know how to do that with Mambo. I know how to create the main menu with Item one; Item two, Item three, Item four, and then call the php script:

<?php mosLoadModules('mainmenu', -1); ?>

But how do I embed the submenu items; Subitem one, Subitem two, Subitem three, Subitem four, as a submenu for Item one. I have seen websites that are done with Mambo with dropdown menus, so I know its possible. But I can't seem to get it to work. Any help is appreciated.

doctorj

You can create a Site Module to do this and then Modify your template accordingly or just modify your template and include the HTML/CSS code and insert the Proper PHP code needed to call those functions.

There is a nice dreamweaver extension out that will help you learn what code can be inserted. You can get it here:

http://www.gotgtek.com/cms/com_docma...t_view/gid,82/

Description of it:

This dremweaver extention is for adding the nesscessary PHP Code into a HTML document in order to create/modify a Mambo Template.

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rickylau

Is there any specific instructions on how to do the hacking? Or maybe just documentation on how the menu system works. Plus, I am not using dreamweaver, so I can't use the extension. I really need to make css dropdown menu in mambo, but I need help in doing it.

Thanks

doctorj

You can try looking through the code from this DHTML Module and see how they did it:
http://mamboforge.net/projects/dtree/

This will help give you an idea on how to do it from a module stand point.

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