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Blog Has Moved

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Since migrating my site to Drupal I now no longer use Blogger and hence my blog has moved here.

MenuMatic update

Monday, November 03, 2008

I just released MenuMatic 0.68 which has a few improvements and should be a little more efficient. Some of the improvements are:

  1. center option: A method I often use to center elements with css is setting the left to 50% and then the left margin to minus half the width of the element. This works really well when you know the width of the element is not going to change. But when your client has control to add or remove pages via a cms the menu width might change. So I added a center option to keep your menu centered even if the width of the menu changes. 
  2. stretchMainMenu  option: I renamed the menuWidth option to stretchMainMenu  as that seems like a much more accurate name. Also I made it work much quicker. In case you have not used it, this option will stretch each link in your main menu until they fill the main ul or ol. So set stretchMainMenu  to true and set a width on your main ol or ul in the css and you can simulate layouts that you can normally only achieve with tables.
  3. fixHasLayoutBug option: A few of you have run into Microsoft's hasLayout Bug, so if you find yourself troubleshooting a weird bug like the submenus all show up at the top of the window instead of by the link you are hovering over, then try enabling this option. It will force all the menu elements to have layout in IE, also all the parent elements of the menu since this is also important for getting accurate positioning.  * Note I have not yet tested this, so if you end up using it please let me know if it works or not :)
  4. call-back functions: I added 18 callback functions to make modifying MenuMatic for different unique situations easier and faster. For example, if you need to do something right after a subMenu is positioned but before it is shown, you can use onPositionSubMenu_complete
  5. Google Code: I am now using Google Code to host MenuMatic so you can use the issue tracker there to report any bugs or submit feature requests. Thanks!

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