[Categories → Menu addon] Improvement - Proposal (incl. Solution)

This discussion is related to the Categories → Menu addon.

hi!

i think it would be nice if the hover menu would actually hover *above* the rest of the page.
this can be achieved by adding
z-index:9;
to plugins/Categories2Menu/categories2menu.css

example:


ul#Menu li ul {
position: absolute;
visibility: hidden;
}

ul#Menu li ul li {
z-index:9;
float: none;
display: inline;
margin: 0;
}

ul#Menu li ul li a {

}

ul#Menu li ul li a:hover {

}


or am i the only one out there having this problem?

the0ne

plus you may additionally want to change line 53 in file plugins/Categories2Menu/class.categories2menu.plugin.php

from
var menustyles = { "visibility":"visible", "display":"block" }
to
var menustyles = { "visibility":"visible", "display":"block", "z-index":"9" }

oliverraduner

Thanks for your feedback, @theOne !

I actually tried already to fix the overlay issue by adding a z-index - but obviously I did something wrong, because it didn't work when I was testing. Therefore I postponed it...

Anyway, I just uploaded a minor update of the plugin containing your CSS enhancements! It does show the Categories menu properly ABOVE f.eg. messages.

Thanks again for pointing this out,
Oliver

Niisama

Please make this feature to work with iVanilla theme also because it breaks its design for some reason.

This plugin makes Vanilla forum much better i would say.

Thanks in advance.

oliverraduner

I will look into that, @Niisama.

GateKeaper

In firefox it works as it supposed to do, but in iexplore 7.0 it is still under "My Messages" (the blue bar when viewing all the discussions (default theme)).

oliverraduner

@GateKeeper Can you provide a screenshot?

GateKeaper

Here ya go :-) http://i.imgur.com/d9hKq.png

If you need to look at the html source, the url is: http://getspotnet.nl/forum/

oliverraduner

@GateKeaper Please switch to IE8 ;-) --> no problem with that one (testing it right now)

ntuyelik

Could you please check this : http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/15652/categories2menu-css-customization-question#Item_1