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

Initial Email From: Diane,
Initial Email Subject: Populating menu through UL/LI items
Support Case Month: March 2012

I am unable to get the menu to display at all using the CSS Menu/populating menu using UL/LI option.  Menu compiles and works fine using default menu structure.  I want the menu to be able to be used/viewed on smart phone but I am getting an error message.

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Hello,

The problem is that you are using a UL/LI list generated from a JavaScript Menu to populate a CSS Menu.

Specifically there are two things that cause a problem:

1) The UL/LI has “display: none;”. As such the menu will never show.

2) Item 2.1 does not have a link, and all items are required to have a link (even if empty).

Both of these have also been fixed on our side and the fixes will be included in the next AllWebMenus release (in a couple of days). Until then, you can simply fix these two things in your menu structure if you want to see the CSS.

Example of fixed UL/LI code:

                                <ul id="awmULLI-menu">

                                                <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>

                                                <li><a href="item1.html">Item 1</a></li>

                                                <li><a href="item2.html">Item 2</a>

                                                   <ul>

                                                     <li><a href="#">Item 2.1</a>

                                                       <ul>

                                                         <li><a href="item_211.html">Item 2.1.1</a></li>

                                                         <li><a href="item_212.html">Item 2.1.2</a></li>

                                                         <li><a href="item_213.html">Item 2.1.3</a></li>

                                                         <li><a href="item_214.html">Item 2.1.4</a></li>

                                                       </ul>

                                                     </li>

                                                     <li><a href="item_22.html">Item 2.2</a>

                                                     </li>

                                                   </ul>

                                                </li>

                                                <li><a href="item3.html">Item 3</a>

                                                </li>

                                                </ul>

Regards,
Kostas
Likno Customer Support
www.likno.com
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- Added the "Batch Compile of Multiple Projects" feature.

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All features here: http://www.likno.com/allwebmenusinfo.html

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All features here: http://www.likno.com/allwebmenusinfo.html

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- New "CSS Menu" Genre option. Contrary to the "Javascript menu", the "CSS menu" implementation is designed so that:

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All features here: http://www.likno.com/allwebmenusinfo.html

Download the new version of our CSS menu builder at http://www.likno.com/download.html

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Download the new version of our CSS menu builder at http://www.likno.com/download.html