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Tagged: custom menu

  • This topic has 16 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 11 years ago by meganl.
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  • November 17, 2013 at 12:21 pm #73581
    BP
    Member

    When I place a "Custom Menu" widget into "Header Right" widget area, the menu displays vertically.
    E.g.
    Home
    About
    Contact

    How can I get it to display horizontally? And how can I get it to align right.
    E.g.
    Contact About Home

    FYI: I have the Prose theme. And I've tried adjusting the header title and widget area widths.
    http://www.guruhabits.com/


    Brad

    November 17, 2013 at 12:44 pm #73601
    RobG
    Member

    Were do you have the menu placed currently?


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    November 17, 2013 at 1:01 pm #73637
    BP
    Member

    Rob,

    I added the site url a few seconds after posting. Here it is again.

    http://www.guruhabits.com/


    Brad

    November 17, 2013 at 1:04 pm #73641
    RobG
    Member

    I'm asking were do you have the menu at the moment?


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    November 17, 2013 at 1:11 pm #73651
    BP
    Member

    Secondary Navigation - below the header.

    I want to eliminate that one and move it to the header right widget area where the 468x60 banner ad is now.

    When I tested, it displayed vertically.


    Brad

    November 17, 2013 at 1:33 pm #73681
    RobG
    Member

    Can you place your menu in the right header section so I can take a look to see what If I can help you.


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    November 17, 2013 at 1:50 pm #73718
    BP
    Member

    I added to this site. http://www.webscapeproductions.com I only added two items to keep the site looking normal.

    Here's what I want it to look like. This is my only site so far using the Epik theme. All others, including the above, use Prose.

    http://www.agegineering.com

    Your help is appreciated.


    Brad

    November 17, 2013 at 1:55 pm #73732
    RobG
    Member

    Brad in order to see what's going on I will need to see the menu you want in the right header section in action, this way I can figure out how to correct the width to make it all work.


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    November 17, 2013 at 2:31 pm #73794
    BP
    Member

    Rob, It's there. I added a two item menu, Operations & Newsletter, to the right header section here: http://www.webscapeproductions.com/


    Brad

    November 17, 2013 at 2:40 pm #73799
    RobG
    Member

    Brad are you also using the Custom menu in the right header widget section?


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    November 17, 2013 at 2:45 pm #73802
    BP
    Member

    Yes. As I stated at the top of this thread.


    Brad

    November 17, 2013 at 2:50 pm #73807
    Robert Neu
    Member

    Adding something like this to your style.css file should do what you're after:

    #header .menu-item {
        background: none;
        border: none;
        float: left;
        margin: 0;
        padding-bottom: 0;
    }

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    November 17, 2013 at 3:18 pm #73818
    BP
    Member

    Thank you, Fat Media!

    Adding your code got it much closer. How do I position it in the middle vertically and get the sub menus to behave like those in the secondary nav menu. I want it to look and behave like this site:
    http://www.agegineering.com/

    See the new menu I added for testing here: http://www.webscapeproductions.com/


    Brad

    November 17, 2013 at 4:11 pm #73829
    Robert Neu
    Member

    Well, the alignment can be fixed by adding:

    #header .genesis-nav-menu {
        float: right;
    }

    The dropdowns are a little more involved. Basically, you'll want to look at the styles for the primary navigation. You should be able to find them around line 463 in style.css. Once you find them, you're going to need to copy them and modify them a bit.

    They should all have something like #subnav li ul in the code. Instead of the items saying #subnav li ul, they would need to say #header li ul.

    This should get you started, but you might have to modify the code somewhat to get the look you're after:

    https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7518893


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    November 17, 2013 at 4:16 pm #73830
    BP
    Member

    Thank you, Fat Media. I'll work on it.


    Brad

    June 11, 2014 at 10:40 am #109362
    meganl
    Member

    How did this work out?
    I have Beautiful Pro theme which wont change from vertical to horizontal which the sample showed.

    June 11, 2014 at 11:02 am #109366
    meganl
    Member

    I am limited on time to figure out WHY it will not become horizontal navigation for my menu of words, currently I have taken off header image and just made a background image instead.

    http://www.christinalicona.com/

    Once I get the navigation of the menu of pages HORIZONTALLY in upper right, then I will put the logo back up in left corner and then

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