Likno Blog – Drop-Down Menus, Javascript Menus, CSS Menus

If you have a menu built by AllWebMenus Pro that you need to unlink from your pages due to some issues related with the Linking Code instance (e.g. the src attribute of the Linking Code which indicates the path of the menu's JavaScript file is incorrect) you have to do the following:

1. Open your menu's project using your AllWebMenus Pro application.
2. Start a normal link procedure clicking on the "Link Menu" button (see Image1 below).
3. Choose the pages from which you want to unlink your menu, hold the Control button (ctrl) and click the "Link" button. When you hold the Control button, the "Link" button will change to "Unlink" button (see Image2 below).

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This is the easiest, fastest and recommended way to remove a Lininking Code instance from your page(s); removing the Linking Code instance from your page, you unlink your menu Afterwards, you are able to re-link your menu.

AllWebMenus Pro application gives you the ability to choose the position of your menu inside your page.

In order to choose the position of your menu through AllWebMenus Pro, you have to click on the Menu Positioning button. After you click on this button a window as shown in the picture below, will appear.

If you want your menu to have a window-related position, then you should choose "Relative to Window", and select where you want the menu to be placed.

If you want your menu to have an element-related position (e.g. an image, a table, a div, etc) you have to choose (like in the red box) "Relative to an Element", and then the place in the element that want the menu to be placed (from the properties below - Element/Menu Anchor and offsets). Then, you have to copy the code (press the green box) and paste it into an id into the properties of the element you want your menu inside (check the samples of code by pressing '?' button next to 'Copy'). Just decide inside which element you want your menu to appear and paste the code there.

To find more info in the Help section, please go to:

Help -> Properties -> Properties Description -> Property: Positioning.

When you build a site using ASP/PHP pages, you have to follow a different way so as to link your menu to them.

If your site has master page(s), namely page(s) that include other page(s) and you want your menu to appear in the included page(s) you have to do the following:

1. Link your menu in the master page(s) using the Link procedure of your AllWebMenus Pro application.
2. Position your menu in the included page(s) adding the appropriate line of positioning code in their source code. You can find all the appropriate information about how to position your menu through AllWebMenus Pro in the Help section (go to Help -> Properties -> Properties Description -> Property: Positioning).

We are happy to announce that we have released AllWebMenus version 5.1 build #776.

See here what's new in this build:

- Optimized the produced javascripts when any of the extra "Appears/Disappears" effects is used.

- Fixed an issue with the FrontPage Plugin when opening a menu which contained strange characters (like "a" with umlaut).

- Fixed an issue in IE6 where a javascript error appeared if a calculated width was less than zero.

For more info on releases, please visit http://www.likno.com/whatsnew.html

- Added an option in Open File, in order to load ".awt" files (Likno Drop-Down Menu Trees projects)

- Improved support of the BASE attribute in the html of a page. (IE only)

- Added 30 new IE* submenu effects for the "Group Appears - How" and "Group Disappears - How" properties (new effects are shown in brackets):

[Barn Horizontal In], [Barn Horizontal In], Barn Horizontal Out,
[Barn Vertical In], [Barn Vertical Out], [Blinds Down], [Blinds Left], Blinds Right,
[Blinds Up], [Checker Board Down], [Checker Board Left], Checker Board Right,
[Checker Board Up], Fade, Iris - Circle In, [Iris - Circle Out], Iris - Cross In,
[Iris - Cross Out], [Iris - Diamond In], [Iris - Diamond Out], Iris - Plus In,
[Iris - Plus Out], Iris - Square In, [Iris - Square Out], Iris - Star In,
[Iris - Star Out], Pixelate, Radial Wipe Clock, [Radial Wipe Radial],
[Radial Wipe Wedge], Random Bars Horizontal, [Random Bars Vertical],
Random Dissolve, Slide Hide, [Slide Swap], Spiral, [Stretch Hide], Stretch Spin,
[Strips Left Down], [Strips Left Up], [Strips Right Down], [Strips Right Up]

* The above effects are supported by IE only (the "unfolding" effect is used on other browsers instead).

- Sliding Menu Add-in: The "Remember the menu state" option is now using a "session" cookie. This makes the sliding menu return to its initial state when the user completes her session.

- Fixed an issue with items that had left or right image and did not show properly in some cases. (IE8 and Mozilla)

- Fixed an issue where the "Javascript Command" on Mouse Click did not work properly when the "Link" property also had a value. (IE only)

- Fixed an issue with the "Remember State" option on sliding menus when the menu filename contained spaces.

- Fixed an issue with menu filenames that include a space or "-" (javascript errors appeared in such a case). New versions of all Server-Side related add-ins also released that fix this issue.

- Fixed an issue with Right-to-Left pages: an unexpected scrollbar appeared.

- Fixed an issue in sliding menus: when "Remember State" was selected the "Ignore the Link value of parent items" did not work properly.

- Fixed an issue with sliding menus (IE only) where a javascript error appeared when a sliding menu folded (in some cases only).