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Author: BK

Date: 23 Apr 2005 3:38 am

Hi, it's me again. Sorry for all the questions. I need help with 2 questions/problems, plus 3 little questions.

1. An IE-related problem/question. Not sure if you noticed, but IE defines pixels differently than Firefox (I use Firefox). For some strange reason, pixels in IE is bigger than in Firefox, and that's where my problem is. I use table to organize the structure of my website, so I have the permanent relative menu in one of the cell (the only cell in the row). But the problem is after I define the height of the image in the <img> tag or <td> tag, Firefox shows perfectly, but because IE's pixel is bigger, so in IE, the image doesn't fit perfectly in the cell, and there's a little gap below the image inside the cell. I'm sure this is the problem because when I give a smaller value for the image height, the small gap disappears, but then it doesn't show correctly in Firefox anymore. So is there any way to solve this problem?

2. Related to the first question. I know the problem in question 1 can be solved if the image is used as the background for the cell instead. But I tried and it wouldn't work because I couldn't identify the "getStart" for the image. Is there any way to identity the name for the background picture of the cell?

3. Not that important, but I would like to have the text shown in the status bar of the browser when my mouse roll over the menu and menu items. For example, if I roll my mouse over the menu item "Home", I want the status bar to display "Home". Is there any way to do this with the permanent relative menu?

4. Similarly, I also want the "alt" function for my permanent relative menu when the mouse moves over the menu and menu items (which uses images). Is it possible?

5. When I load my web page with the permanent relative menu onto the browser, I can actually see the menu moves from the top left corner to where it's supposed to be, is there any way to fix it so that it doesn't show the menu moving into position?

Sorry for the long post. Really appreaciate your help! Thank you!

Author: smartmenus

Date: 24 Apr 2005 3:57 am

1. & 2. - I think I can solve these issues if I take a look at your code. Please send me by email a small example ZIP containing one sample page.

3. This is no longer possible in v5.5. I have explained why I removed this feature in the versions --> http://www.smartmenus.org/version_history.php. If you want this so badly, you can switch to using the old --> http://www.smartmenus.org/down/smartmenus5-2.zip. Otherwise, I would encourage you to use the Title menu item property to set text that will be displayed in a tooltip when the user keeps the cursor over the menu item.

4. The alt attribute can be specified for the images implemented with the Image menu item property. You can add it like this:

Image:['source',width,height,'alt_attribute']

5. I think I could solve this too if I take a look at your code.