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1/9/2012 11:30:12 AM
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Vertical Menu Not Visible Unless Hovered Over

I'm having issues with my vertical menu.  We just updated our mojoPortal and our Artisteer so they are most current.  I've used the "artisteer31-hovermenu" skin as a starter skin and placed my exported Artisteer files into it.  All is working well except for the Vertical Menu.  When I click on a page the Vertical Menu is there but not visible until you hover over it.  Then you can view each item as you hover over them, but as soon as you hover off the items dissappear again.  If you click on a page that has child pages, that page and its child pages are visible in the Vertical Menu without hovering over them, but the rest of the pages are not.  Our menu is currently setup as: 

<portal:PageMenuID="PageMenu1" runat="server" UseTreeView="true" IsSubMenu="true" TreeViewShowExpandCollapse="false"/>

Id like for our menu items to be visible at all times without having to hover over them.  I've tried switching the "UseTreeView" to false but it does nothing.  I've also switched over to other default mojoPortal skins and the Vertical Menu seems to function fine in all of them.  Its just an issue with our Artisteer generated skin?  We appreciate any help anyone can give on this issue!

1/9/2012 11:36:45 AM
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Re: Vertical Menu Not Visible Unless Hovered Over

Hi,

Make sure you included a vertical menu in your design in Artisteer 3.1 and make sure that in Artisteer under Vertical Menu > Levels you have Expand on Hover selected, or at least that you don't have it set to "One Level". Otherwise your css exported from Artisteer might not have what is needed.

Hope that helps,

Joe

1/9/2012 12:05:13 PM
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Re: Vertical Menu Not Visible Unless Hovered Over

Hi Joe,

I appreciate the response!  I've checked the Vertical Menu Level setting and it was on "Navigate on Click" which should be fine.  I did change it to "Expand on Hover" as well just to see but I got the same results.  

Its like its only showing the menu items for the page currently active and hiding the rest until hovered over.  I thought maybe a visible = false setting somewhere, but I can't find anything out of place?  

Any other ideas?

Thanks!

1/9/2012 2:54:14 PM
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Re: Vertical Menu Not Visible Unless Hovered Over

If you'd like to send me (joe dot audette at g mail dotcom) your .artx file, I can probably take a look at it in the morning.

Best,

Joe

1/9/2012 5:36:18 PM
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Re: Vertical Menu Not Visible Unless Hovered Over

The vertical menu expand on hover is a feature of Artisteer 3.1, and it was used in the design of that skin (hence the name including "hovermenu"). I'd think, though, that your Artisteer export should change that behavior when you overwrite the files. Are you sure you overwrote everything, including the script.js file?

Jamie

1/10/2012 9:11:55 AM
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Re: Vertical Menu Not Visible Unless Hovered Over

Hi Joe and Jamie, I appreciate all of you guys' help!  I appologize for the late reply, but we were finally able to get this up and going last night.  What had happened was for some unknown reason the following were set to the color white:

ul.art-vmenu > li > a (color was white)
ul.art-vmenu > li > a.active (color was white)

So in turn we were getting a white cover over the menu items until they were hovered over.  By changing these from white to transparent out links were then visible without hovering.  I'm still not sure why this happened, it must be something that Artisteer is setting upon export even though this was not added or styled this way anywhere in the template.  Again thanks for all your help, glad to have it up and running!

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