drop downs and IE 5

Hello,

So how do we get PVII drop downs to work in IE 5? More specifically, if you
creat a drop down that drops below a trigger images, how do we get it to
dissapear if you move the mouse back up the drop down and past the trigger
image?

If you mouse out of a drop down, when viewing in IE 5, they dissappear,
however if you go back up the dropdown and pass over the trigger image (as I
have laready said) they remain down. I know there's the browser 6 div auto
hide trick, but what if you want it to work in 5 browsers. I use IE 5.2 all
the time, and I know alot of people who do.

Is there any way using PVII extensions that you can get the drop down to
dissapear?

THanks for any help,

cpageski

On 7/12/04 9:03 PM, in article ccvftt$n78$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com,
"cpageski" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote:

So how do we get PVII drop downs to work in IE 5? More specifically, if you
creat a drop down that drops below a trigger images, how do we get it to
dissapear if you move the mouse back up the drop down and past the trigger
image?

If you mouse out of a drop down, when viewing in IE 5, they dissappear,
however if you go back up the dropdown and pass over the trigger image (as I
have laready said) they remain down. I know there's the browser 6 div auto
hide trick, but what if you want it to work in 5 browsers. I use IE 5.2 all
the time, and I know alot of people who do.

Is there any way using PVII extensions that you can get the drop down to
dissapear?

There should be no problem. Give us the URL, so we can see what you are
talking about. I have used the PVII free dropdowns and never encountered a
problem that was more than an, "Aw $#1+. I shoulda known that." I used the
free dropdowns, because, with a little tweaking, they did everything that I
needed.

John Gaver
Action America
(forget everything to contact me direct)

Microsoft: (n) Job security for IT consultants.

cpageski wrote:

Is there any way using PVII extensions that you can get the drop
down to dissapear?

There is likely something amiss on your page. We test thoroughly in IE5
(PC and Mac). Post a page and I'm sure the error will be easy to spot.

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Thanks for your response, I would certainly not be surprised if there was some thing amiss on my page , here's the url...http://www.aspensportsmedicine.org/index21.html
cpageski

On 7/12/04 9:03 PM, in article ccvftt$n78$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com,
"cpageski" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote:

Hello,

So how do we get PVII drop downs to work in IE 5? More specifically, if you
creat a drop down that drops below a trigger images, how do we get it to
dissapear if you move the mouse back up the drop down and past the trigger
image?

If you mouse out of a drop down, when viewing in IE 5, they dissappear,
however if you go back up the dropdown and pass over the trigger image (as I
have laready said) they remain down. I know there's the browser 6 div auto
hide trick, but what if you want it to work in 5 browsers. I use IE 5.2 all
the time, and I know alot of people who do.

Is there any way using PVII extensions that you can get the drop down to
dissapear?

After looking at the page, I'm still not sure that I understand your
question, but I did find some problems on that page that show up in multiple
browsers.

Problem 1.A) When you mouse up, off of the menu, the dropdown menu stays
visible.
Problem 1.B) When you mouse off to the right or left of the main menu, the
dropdown stays visible.

Suggestion 1) Make the entire top banner area a layer (<DIV>) and add an
autohide behavior to it.

Problem 2) Your dropdowns are only active when you roll over the actual text
- NOT the surrounding box. Visitors can click on the bounding box all day
and never get to the desired page, unless they happen to also be over the
actual text.

Suggestion 2) It looks like you used a table to build the dropdown. If you
look at the PVII tutorial examples, you will see that they use paragraphs
(<P>Selection text</P>) within a <DIV> that has the width, block and other
such stuff defined. The result is that each paragraph makes the whole
surrounding box active. Look at their CSS for "p7submenus" to see how they
did it.

Problem 3) The "People" submenu does not go away when you mouse out down,
until you pass 115px from the top, meaning that when your cursor sets just
below "History" the menu stays visible..

Suggestion 3) Remove he "height:115px" in "Layer2". Let the <DIV> find it's
own size. That way, if you later add or remove a submenu item, you won't run
into this problem again.

If you follow these suggestions, then it should set you on the right path,
to figure out your original problem. It may even solve the problem that your
original question alluded to. If not, then if you will rephrase that
question, maybe I or someone else can help you with that, too. However, the
above problems are much more critical, since they are cross-platform.

Good luck.
John Gaver
Action America
(forget everything to contact me direct)

Microsoft: (n) Job security for IT consultants.

cpageski wrote:

Thanks for your response, I would certainly not be surprised if there was some thing amiss on my page , here's the url...http://www.aspensportsmedicine.org/index21.html
cpageski

You have used the 'autohide' layers extention on the images above the
drop menu trigger instead of 'autolayers' extention.

Delete those behaviours, select the first image>behaviours>PV11>Auto
Layers>Click 'ok' . You dont need to select any layers just click 'ok'

Repeat for each of the other images in that table row.

Osgood wrote:

You have used the 'autohide' layers extention on the images above the
drop menu trigger instead of 'autolayers' extention.

Delete those behaviours, select the first image>behaviours>PV11>Auto
Layers>Click 'ok' . You dont need to select any layers just click 'ok'

Repeat for each of the other images in that table row.

Should have said make sure the event is onMouseOver.

John,

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain so clearly the problems and solutions. I look forward to putting your fix to work and getting back to you.

Cynthia

I am trying to implement Johns suggestions, specifically suggestion 2 about
"css for P7submenus", and I don't see what John is talking about. I am
extremely confused! I don't see anything that shows me how to apply css styles
to the <Ptext /P>, or div tag. As far a s I can see this tutorial only shows
you haow to set up the layeers for snap and autohide, i see nothing that show
one how to format the text inside a popup menu.

Can you point me in the right direction.

Thanks, cpageski