horizontal pop up menus

i am trying to implement a horizontal pop-up menu. But since the items in the
menu are of different word lengths, the spacing looks awkward. There is an
option to adjust cell widths, but i would like to alter them individually, does
anyone know how to manipulate the cell width for the horizontal pop-up menus?

If you scan through the MANY posts here regarding the use of these pop-up
menus, you will get a feel for a) how many people have problems with them,
and b) how despised they are in the general community.

Here's the very best way to make these menus -

http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/snapmenus/index.htm

or

http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/auto_hide/index.htm

and here's an example you can analyze -

http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/autolayers/

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"ioguy" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

i am trying to implement a horizontal pop-up menu. But since the items in
the
menu are of different word lengths, the spacing looks awkward. There is an
option to adjust cell widths, but i would like to alter them individually,
does
anyone know how to manipulate the cell width for the horizontal pop-up
menus?

On 7/19/04 2:04 PM, in article cdh5v4$b7q$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com, "ioguy"
<webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote:

i am trying to implement a horizontal pop-up menu. But since the items in the
menu are of different word lengths, the spacing looks awkward. There is an
option to adjust cell widths, but i would like to alter them individually,
does
anyone know how to manipulate the cell width for the horizontal pop-up menus?

First, if you are using DW or FW generated popup menus, scrap them and start
over. They are wordy, buggy and extremely difficult to maintain, unless you
are a JavaScript guru. I am proficient with JS and even I don¹t like it.
Also, if you don't implement it just right, you can cause search engine
spiders to miss the content of the rest of your site.

Check out the Project VII menus

Simple VII menus are my favorite:
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/auto_hide/index.htm

Also look at the PVII Positioned Popups (snapmenus):
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/snapmenus/index.htm

Both are free and although only outwardly support single level submenus,
they can both be easily configured to support multi-level submenus. Both
will support either image or text buttons. Read and follow the tutorials and
you will be a dropdown guru ... OK, maybe not a guru, but you should have an
idea where to go next.

Good Luck!

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

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