Comments on Java Thoughts: Suckerfish dropdowns for Wicket (redux)

Not sure if this is still the right place to be co...

2010-03-22T15:55:48.270-07:00

Not sure if this is still the right place to be commenting on this but...

I want a different style on the top level li elements than the rest of the submenus (-moz-border-radius: 5px).

Also, I want the second half of the top level li to have their submenus pop out to the left instead of the right so that they display without scrolling off the screen.

I was thinking that SuckerfishMenuPanel.MenuItem should extends Component that way you can add SimpleAttributeModifier etc. to the menu items.

Is this the correct approach? Thx!

Martin, you are correct regarding ExternalLink--th...

2008-03-13T08:51:00.000-07:00

Martin, you are correct regarding ExternalLink--the javadoc does not match the actual code. ExternalLink does in fact inherit from AbstractLink. I based my comment on the javadoc.

Hi Julian,

Thanks for the update !

A...

2008-03-11T14:43:00.000-07:00

Hi Julian,

Thanks for the update !

About my comment accuracy. See:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/wicket/trunk/jdk-1.4/wicket/src/main/java/org/apache/wicket/markup/html/link/ExternalLink.java?view=markup

Probably you have looked at http://people.apache.org/~tobrien/wicket/apidocs/index.html
Here by some reason it says that the parent is WebMarkupContainer...

Eyal, I don't know of a way to have the text be ju...

2008-03-11T10:34:00.000-07:00

Eyal, I don't know of a way to have the text be just the width of the text plus some extra space. However, by playing around with the CSS I was able to reduce the width in my example. See the parameters that are 7em below.

#nav span.childmenutext {
display: block;
width: 7em;
padding: 0.25em;
cursor: default;
}

#nav li ul {
position: absolute;
left: -999em;
height: auto;
width: 7em;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0;
}

#nav li li {
padding-right: 1em;
width: 7em;
padding-left: 0;
padding-top: 0.25em;
padding-bottom: 0.25em;
}

#nav li ul a {
width: 7em;
}

#nav li ul ul {
margin: -1.75em 0 0 7em;
}

Martin, I've made the change to AbstractLink and c...

2008-03-11T09:56:00.000-07:00

Martin, I've made the change to AbstractLink and checked it in. However, ExternalLink does not inherit from AbstractLink so your comment isn't accurate.

Julian,
The problem was when the menu was insid...

2008-03-06T13:45:00.000-08:00

Julian,
The problem was when the menu was inside an iframe.
That was only for testings.
When I put the menu in the page itself, it works great.

Small question regarding styling.
I happen to have many items in the menu and it gets two lines.
How can I make the width of each item to be the size of the text + some pixels?
I'm not an expert in CSS and wonder if you can give me this shortcut :)

Thanks

Great work Julian,

I want to propose a RFE ...

2008-03-06T00:39:00.000-08:00

Great work Julian,

I want to propose a RFE (for the wicketstuff code): please change all
occurences of "Link" to "AbstractLink" so the code could be easily used with Ajax/External links

Eyal, I don't see this problem on IE. Please doubl...

2008-02-27T14:30:00.000-08:00

Eyal, I don't see this problem on IE. Please double check that your javascript onmouseout method matches mine.

Hello,
Works great!! Thanks.
I have a questi...

2008-02-24T08:49:00.000-08:00

Hello,
Works great!! Thanks.
I have a question regarding IE.
when I roll out from a menu / submenu, it stays on.
On FF I don't have this problem.

Can you help?

Thanks,
Eyal

Thanks Julian it works now. I changed the Link to ...

2007-12-31T21:56:00.000-08:00

Thanks Julian it works now. I changed the Link to External Link in your code. Now I can generate dynamic links as well in the drop down menus.

Suresh, I've fixed this problem. Please try it aga...

2007-12-29T09:05:00.000-08:00

Suresh, I've fixed this problem. Please try it again.

Nice work Julian. You have done exactly what I am ...

2007-12-25T01:26:00.000-08:00

Nice work Julian. You have done exactly what I am looking for. I tried your example and it worked well in navigation. But I got a problem in it. One of my menus is named as AddUser which contains the form to add new user. When I fill the form and try to get the feedback after form submission I got the following error
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: A child with id 'linktext' already exists:

Could you please test with the form in one of the menus and get feedback message (e.g for form validation) without any error and inform me if it works. Thanks