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Thread: Slight Menu Flash

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Andre Marshall

post date:
2009-07-14 10:39:08
Hello,

I'm just testing a new site, and have noticed that when I click on the menu bar at the top the menu does a slight flash between web pages.
I not sure why this is happening, but I though I would try and use an iframe to see if it would solve the problem.
I have saved the menu in a HTML file named menu.html within the site. The div tag for the Menu bar is 900 pixels wide and 55 pixels high and is named "topNavigation"
Here is the code for the iframe
<div id="topNavigation">
<ul>
<li></li>
<IFRAME src="menu.html" width="900" height="55" frameborder="no">
</IFRAME>
</ul>
</div>
When I go to preview the site, there's no menu, it's empty with scroll bars.
Could you please help me correct the code, or provide an example for using the menus in a iframe.

Kind regards
Andre Marshall

Vibe Creative, Graphic & Web Design
Andrei Rinciog [Extend Studio]

post date:
2009-07-15 06:43:12
Hello,

I really don't know why you can't see the menu at all. The code is correct, maybe you forgot to upload the "menu.html" page or the includes folder ? Does the menu appear if you test only the menu page ?

However, I don't understand exactly why you want to include the menu inside an iframe. Could you explain again?

Also, you need to make that iframe bigger if you want to use submenus or they won't have space to drop-down.

Regards,
Andrei Rinciog
Andre Marshall

post date:
2009-07-15 10:04:24
Hello Andrei,

I don't really want to use an iframe with the menu bar, I'm trying to stop the flash that happens when clicking on the links on the extend studio menu bar to different pages within the site.
I would prefer to just insert the menu into a dig tag from the Creative menu tool.
Do you have any idea on why the extend studio menus do a quick flash when selecting different pages within the menu bar?
If I don't use the extend studios menus, and create a menu using an unordered list and style it with the li and ul tag everything is fine.
So if you could help me solve why the extend studios menus do this quick flash that would be helpful, as I would like to use the creative menus more often.

Thank you
Kind regards
Andre Marshall
Vibe Creative
Andrei Rinciog [Extend Studio]

post date:
2009-07-16 06:57:45
Hello again,

I don't think i understand exactly what quick flash you refer too.
If you referring at the fact that the menu is reloaded when you change the pages, it's not much you can do. There is an instance of the menu on each page and it needs to render when that page is loaded. It can't stay from one page to another, except using iframes.

Please explain more at what you are referring and maybe we can find a workaround. You can even send me a link or screen-grabs at support at extendstudio.com

Regards,
Andrei Rinciog