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Knowledge Base support case for AllWebMenus, abstracted and stripped of all user’s private info.

Initial Email From: Tomaz
Initial Email Subject: Google translator
Support Case Month: October 2012

Hi

Why Google Translate does not translate menu on my pages?

THX
Tomaž

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear Tomaz,

Google Translate cannot translate complex JavaScript components such as the menu. If you want to use Google Translate with your menu, please use the CSS menu genre.

Keep in mind however that if the translation text is larger than the original one, the text may bleed outside the menu buttons. The menu cannot automatically readjust itself to fit the translated text.

As such, I recommend setting an item width that is not marginal for your text.

Regards,
Kostas
Likno Customer Support
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Reply From: Tomaz

I am a bit uninformed here
How to use / create / upload CSS menu genre
Does it mean I should change menu codes for all my 254 html's ?
Funny, but http://www.microsofttranslator.com works mostly fine with menu too

Tomaž

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Hello again,

This happens because of the way Google works (posts things to its server and displays the page as an iframe). This way, Google translates everything BEFORE the menu is created, while Microsoft translates everything runtime.

I guess that any ULLI menu would work with Google (both JavaScript & CSS). To make your menu a ULLI menu you need to select the following option:

Then you need to add a UL/LI structure into each of your pages. If you have 254 pages then I strongly recommend that you add this in a single “include” file that will be added in all pages. This way it will be much easier to maintain the menu in the future.

For detailed into on how this works, click on the question-mark button & settings link.

Regards,
Kostas
Likno Customer Support
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Knowledge Base support case for AllWebMenus, abstracted and stripped of all user’s private info.

Initial Email From: User
Initial Email Subject: can you enable / disable a menu item using javascript
Support Case Month: April 2012

I searched your website for this info and could not find it.

can you enable / disable a menu item using javascript?

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Hello,

I am afraid that this is not possible. At least not without a page refresh.

You can use JavaScript code to build a menu (utilizing the Server-Side API) so in a sense when the page loads you can build the menu with or without a specific item (or with a disabled item). You cannot however change the menu at runtime once it is generated.

Regards,
Kostas
Likno Customer Support
www.likno.com
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