Firefox drop down menu problem

[scallionman]

Hi

I have a horizontal menu bar on my home page - http://www.iol.ie/~tulligweather . When using Firefox if I roll the cursor over the buttons that have sub-menus the sub-menu appears OK; but with a small gap between the nav bar and the sub-menu. As I move the cursor over the submenu it dissapears making the sub-menu links inaccessible.

If you're quick enough with the cursor you can sometimes catch the sub-menu before it disappears; but you have to be very quick.

This works fine in IE where there is no gap between the nav bar and the sub-menu.

I've tried regenerating the menu to no avail. Can anyone help, this is driving me nuts!

Thanks
David

[XTC]

I have the same problem www.wantitbak.com

did anyone get a solution? Same thing occurs in both firefox and IE

[John Rayner]

"Which is better opera or firefox?" - J.R. Jackson

That is easy whichever one is free and works on the most websites, but does not open you up for loads of spam/viruses and asociated poo-poo.

[scallionman]

Well I did get it fixed; but I still don't understand why it wasn't working. This is probably my ignorance of CSS positioning techniques.

What I was using in my site was 4 absolutely positioned divs; The page header, the menu, the mainbody and the footer. When the menu had it's own positioned div it didn't work properly.

I then combined the top 3 positioned elements into one, so the heander, menu & main body all became one. Then the menu worked OK.

So I guess the moral of the story is; don;t put a horizontal menu in an absolutely positioned div or it may not work correctly.

Thanks for everyones suggestions on this.

David

[XTC]

Cheers for trying. It is very intermittent but happening enough that poeple have commented on it. I have tried having spcing at 2 and currently at 0

tends to happen more if you move your mouse off teh main button down in a diagonal direction slightly.

[John Rayner]

David,

I think MM uses a relative positioned CSS. When you had it nested inside it's own CSS it got confused and made it look like poo-poo.

[scallionman]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Daniel:
David,

I've never used Menumaker, so can't help with your case I'm afraid, but if you email the Xara Support people, link them to their demo #7, because it suffers from the same problem as you have on your menu: http://www.xara.com/products/menumak...NBExample7.htm

(With Firefox 1.0 here, your menus shift a pixel or two, the Xara demo#7 doesn't do that, but it does require very fast and precise mouse movement to get into the submenus)

(If you need to contact Xara, read an FAQ from http://www.xara.com/support/menumaker/ and scroll to the bottom of the page, then click Contact Support) <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks for your reply Daniel. I checked out the Xara demos and I have to say I didn't experience any problems with the sub-menus on any of the demos using Firefox.

[John Rayner]

The sub and sub-submenus are Css drop downs. Maybe the Css you where using was 1 or 2 pixels goofy. So the script recieved a mouseoff before it recieved the mouseover making it go bye-bye.

[diniel]

David,

I've never used Menumaker, so can't help with your case I'm afraid, but if you email the Xara Support people, link them to their demo #7, because it suffers from the same problem as you have on your menu: http://www.xara.com/products/menumak...NBExample7.htm

(With Firefox 1.0 here, your menus shift a pixel or two, the Xara demo#7 doesn't do that, but it does require very fast and precise mouse movement to get into the submenus)

(If you need to contact Xara, read an FAQ from http://www.xara.com/support/menumaker/ and scroll to the bottom of the page, then click Contact Support)

[John Rayner]

Sorry It was more than 24 hours ago. I must have forgotten the symtoms. Then the mozilla browsers made it look like poo-poo.