Menu & CSS Help

3 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: August 22, 2011   (RSS)

By northernpenguin - August 19, 2011

Hi Everyone

I have a current website with a menu system that I would like to setup to work with CMSB. This is the code I am using:

<ul class="nav">
<li>
<h2 class="nav">Main Menu</h2>
<ul class="nav">
<li class="menucontent"><a title="Recruiting">Recruiting</a>
<ul class="nav2">
<li><a class="menulink" href="info_e.php" title="Recruiting Information">Information</a></li>
<li><a class="menulink" href="member_e.php" title="Membership Requirements">Membership Requirements</a></li>
<li><a class="menulink" href="reqdocs_e.php" title="Required Documents">Required Documents</a></li>
</ul>
<li class="menucontent"><a title="Training and Orders">Training and Orders</a>
<ul class="nav2">
<!-- <li><a class="menulink" href="timings_e.php" title="Weekly Schedule">Weekly Schedule</a></li> -->
<li><a class="menulink" href="dressregs_e.php" title="Dress Regulations">Dress Regulations</a></li>
<li><a class="menulink" href="promotions_e.php" title="Promotions">Promotions</a></li>
<li><a class="menulink" href="dutyncm_e.php" title="Duty Personnel">Duty Personnel</a></li>
<li><a class="menulink" href="summertrg_e.php" title="Summer Training">Summer Training</a></li>
</ul></ul></ul>


Normally, I would use the following, however I'm not exactly sure how I can use the css code to define the look & feel of the menu.

<ul>
<?php foreach ($category_topRecords as $category_topRecord): ?>
<?php echo $category_topRecord['_listItemStart'] ?>

<?php if ($category_topRecord['_isSelected']): ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ($category_topRecord['open_in_new_page'] == "1"): ?>
<b><a href="<?php echo $category_topRecord['uri'] ?>" rel="self" target="_blank"><?php echo $category_topRecord['name'] ?></a></b>
<?php else: ?>
<a href="<?php echo $category_topRecord['uri'] ?>" rel="self"><?php echo $category_topRecord['name'] ?></a>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ($category_topRecord['_isSelected']): ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php echo $category_topRecord['_listItemEnd'] ?>

<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>


Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Ragi
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northernpenguin
Northern Penguin Technologies

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is indistinguishable from magic."
........Arthur C. Clarke

Re: [northernpenguin] Menu & CSS Help

By zip222 - August 22, 2011

It's not necessary to include all of those classes in your HTML, when you can instead use the cascading aspect of CSS to target the various levels of your navigation. example...

.nav {

}

.nav h2 {

}

.nav li a {

}

.nav li li a {

}


This approach allows you to keep your html very clean and simple.