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

Hey everybody,

We have released a new version of AllWebMenus Pro: Version 5.3 build #870.

Check out What's New:

- Added support for Joomla "Friendly URLs".

- Improved the javascript in the Server-Side Menus API in order to correctly recognize text, including "HTML text".

- Fixed an issue related to the "Web Modal Windows Add-in": It showed the navigation bar while it should not.

- Fixed an issue related to "Sticky Submenus": On mouse click on page they closed their submenus while they should not.

- Fixed an issue related to "Shadow": A shadow did not appear correctly at the bottom side when an "unfolding" effect was used (Mozilla only).

- Fixed an issue related to "Auto Highlight": A different item could be highlighted instead of the proper one, in certain occasions.

- Fixed an issue where the positioning of the menu was misplaced by 1px in the vertical axis, occasionally (IE8 only).

- Fixed an issue where a non-specified border could appear in items because of a global CSS declaration for the TD tag (IE only).

- Fixed an issue with broken Joomla links.

- Minor GUI enhancements.

- Updated Help file.

Download the new version at http://www.likno.com/download.html

Hey everybody,

We have released a new version of AllWebMenus Pro: Version 5.3 build #854.

Check out What's New:

- Added new property: Item Rounded Corners. In browsers that properly support CSS3, the corners of any menu item can be rounded! (supported in IE9+, Opera 10.50+, Firefox 3.5+, Safari/Webkit 522+, Chrome and others). You can adjust the roundness of each corner all together or even separately!

View "Item Rounded Corners" Example

- New Joomla component in order to support our new Joomla Module for easy menu positioning.

- New versions for all "Server-Side Menu API" related add-ins (Joomla, WordPress, Drupal), that support the "Rounded Corners" feature in items.

- The "Compile for Joomla" functionality now includes a "menu positioning" Joomla Module for easy positioning in the web pages (the positioning of the menu should be set to "Element Relative").

- Fixed an issue where groups remained open if they used an "Unfolding" effect for their appearance.

- Added support for mouse wheel over the Properties grid.

- Fixed an issue where a group which opened automatically after the menu loaded, it closed when more content loaded on page the (IE only).

- Fixed CSS issues when a border existed in a TD or TR or TABLE and "border-collapse" was set to collapse.

- Fixed some minor issues related to the mouse over/out of items and closing submenus.

- Added support for NOT opening a submenu on mouse click, if the item has a value on its "Link" property. This submenu will show open in the linked page if the "Automatic Highlight" option is selected.

- Added support for parsing a UL/LI structure that uses a "Class" value and not only an ID value.

- Added support for showing images in Preview, when these images are part of the HTML of items that use the "HTML Full Mode".

- Added support for sliding menus to disappear on mouse out also.

- New version of the Joomla addin to support the Joomla 1.6 version.

- New installation Component available for the Joomla 1.6 version.

- Fixed an issue where a sliding group lost its scrollbar it when dissapeared (only with unfolding effect) (Mozilla, IE8 with compatibility for all sites).

- Fixed an issue in vertical groups where some items were showing with larger height.

- New versions for all "Server-Side Menu API" related add-ins (Joomla, WordPress, Drupal), that support the new "Disappear on mouse out" feature in sliding menus.

Download the new version at http://www.likno.com/download.html

Hey everybody,

We have released a new version of AllWebMenus Pro: Version 5.3 build #852.

Check out What's New:

- Added new property: Group Padding. Menu items can now have a space (padding) between their borders and their group's borders (edges). This space is filled by their group's background, which can be a color or a background image (texture, etc.). You can adjust the padding of each side all together or even separately!
(see image below for different padding per side)

View Padding Example

- Added new property: Group Rounded Corners. In browsers that properly support CSS3, the corners of the Main Menu or Submenus can be rounded! (supported in IE9+, Opera 10.50+, Firefox 3.5+, Safari/Webkit 522+, Chrome and others). You can adjust the roundness of each corner all together or even separately!

View Rounded Corners Example

- Added new feature to the "Web Modal Windows Add-in": You can now use both the "Link" and "Open Modal Windows" properties together! A modal window triggered by a menu item can now show the page specified at its <Link> property (eg: product1.html), if this is not empty, overriding the modal's own content (the one specified within its project).

- New version of all "Server Side" related products ("WordPress menu", "Joomla Menu", "Drupal Menu", etc.), supporting the new "Group Padding" and "Group Rounded Corners" features.

- Fixed an issue with sliding menus where in some cases their submenu groups remained open even when their parent group was closed.

- Fixed an issue where some items of vertical groups could appear with larger height than they should.

- Fixed an issue where the Preview was not showing the menu, when the "Compiled menu Subfolder" was set other than the "Site Root" folder.

- Fixed an issue where the menu images did not display properly when the page CSS used a specific margin for all images.

- Fixed an issue with Server-Side API menu implementations: a JavaScript error could appear if the content of a menu item was just numeric (no text).

Download the new version at http://www.likno.com/download.html

Hey everybody,

We wanted to let you know that we have released new versions of AllWebMenus Pro: Version 5.3 build #850.

Check out What's New:

- Added margin support in images for the UL/LI population method also.

- Added "Menu Floats on Scroll" support for sliding menus also.

- Added support for showing the currently open group with a higher Z-index.

- Added support for showing the 'Mouse Over' state in items with sliding groups open.

- Fixed an issue where the Preview was not showing the menu, when the "Compiled menu Subfolder" was set other than the "Site Root" folder.

- Fixed an issue where the menu images did not display properly when the page CSS used a specific margin for all images.

- Fixed an issue with Server-Side API menu implementations: a JavaScript error could appear if the content of a menu item was just numeric (no text).

- Fixed an issue related to a group opening on page load. It did not position itself correctly when it was larger than the page's height.

- Fixed an IE7+ issue with compatibility mode view when PNG images were used in items.

- Fixed an IE7+ issue with items that had a small image as their only content. Their height was larger than it should (was equal to the font size applied to them).

- Fixed an issue with sliding menus when they were opening a subgroup on page load.

- Fixed an issue with sliding groups and the "Movable" feature. Now all sliding subgroups move as they should.

- Fixed an issue with items using '_blank' in their 'Link Target' property. They used to show a border when a border was specified in page CSS for 'a:img'.

- Fixed an issue where groups beyond 3rd level could close unexpectedly.

- Fixed an issue when the page CSS was using a border for the 'table'.

- Fixed an issue with 'Menubar' width, where the scrollbar's width was also taken into account even when a scrollbar did not actually exist.

Download the new version at http://www.likno.com/download.html

Hey everybody,

We wanted to let you know that we have released new versions of AllWebMenus Pro: Version 5.3 builds #848 and #846.

Check out What's New:

- Added support for showing the Header and Footer in Joomla/WordPress/Drupal (server-side API) menus.

- Added minor interface enhancements and fixes.

- Fixed an issue where the the menu could not show properly if a 'line-height' style value was used for the whole document.

- Fixed an issue with the 'Auto Highlight' feature that occurred when a URL contained spaces.

- Fixed an issue for Mozilla browsers (only), where a group with a 'Has Submenu' image could show wider than it should.

- Minor fixes regarding the 'Export/Update data to/from XML' feature.

- Added support for the IE9 browser (Internet Explorer 9).

- New "External Menu Editing" feature. Edit certain text-related properties of an AllWebMenus project (.awm) in Excel or OpenOffice Calc! Choose the "External Multi Editing" command in the "Tools" menu and use the "Extract XML file for this menu" / "Update menu from XML file" buttons to edit and update some properties of your menu outside AllWebMenus. Useful for "search and replace" operations and more.

- Added support for custom variables in all "Server-Side Menus API" related products.

- Added support for "Small Caps" in the "Item Text Decoration" property.

- Added support for showing/hiding the menu by showing/hiding its positioning element.

- Fixed an issue where submenu groups were misplaced when unfolding effects were used (certain cases only).

- Fixed an issue in the "Link Menu" process, where some .js files could be incorrectly accepted as AllWebMenus compiled files, causing an application crash in such cases.

- Added support in *sliding menu* implementations so that if a Main Menu item has *both* a link to a page *and* a submenu, then its submenu opens only after the linked page appears and not before (the menu does not look "bouncy" this way).

- New version for all "Server-Side Menus API" related products.

- Minor GUI enhancements.

Download the new version at http://www.likno.com/download.html