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1Quintagroup Plone Drop Down Menu
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3  The product allows Plone websites to update multilevel portal
4  dropdown menu and edit it within Plone.
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6  "Product Homepage":http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/ |
7  "Download":http://sourceforge.net/projects/quintagroup
8
9  (c) "Quintagroup":http://quintagroup.com/ , 2008.
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11  support@quintagroup.com * quintessence of modern business
12
13Requires
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15  Plone 3.0+
16
17Install
18
19  1. Install with Quick Installer.
20
21  2. For Plone below 2.1 to use drop_down.css add '<dtml-var drop_down.css>'
22     line to your portal ploneCustom.css.
23
24Usage
25
26  You have a list of items of your top level menu, which you can edit in
27  'drop down menu' configlet form. Now, to add submenu to the certain
28  menu item, you need to add unordered list inside of top level menu
29  item ('<li>...</li>') after its title ('<a></a>')::
30
31   <ul><li>...</li>...<li>...</li></ul>
32
33  To make your changes live click 'save' button.
34
35  Sample menu with 2 submenus::
36 
37   <li id="portaltab-index_html" class="plain"><a href="http://example.com/" accesskey="t">Home</a></li>
38   <li id="portaltab-Members" class="plain"><a href="http://example.com/Members" accesskey="t">Members</a>
39       <ul>
40           <li><a href="http://example.com/Members/jdoe">John Doe</a><li>
41           <li><a href="http://example.com/Members/mmajor">Mary Major</a></li>
42       </ul>
43   </li>
44   <li id="portaltab-news" class="plain"><a href="http://example.com/news" accesskey="t">News</a></li>
45   <li id="portaltab-events" class="plain"><a href="http://example.com/events" accesskey="t">Events</a>
46       <ul>
47           <li><a href="http://example.com/events/previous">Past Events</a><li>
48           <li><a href="http://example.com/calendar">Calendar</a><li>
49       </ul>
50   </li>
51
52  In this example we added submenus to our 'Members', and 'Events' tabs.
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54
55  Customize the following elements in your's css files to
56  changed the appearance of drop down menu:
57
58    * #portal-globalnav - global navigation bar
59    * #portal-globalnav .csshover li.plain a, #portal-globalnav li a - global navigation link
60    * #portal-globalnav .csshover li.plain a:hover, #portal-globalnav li a:hover - global navigation link hover
61    * #portal-globalnav .csshover li.plain ul, #portal-globalnav li ul - global navigation drop-down box
62    * #portal-globalnav .csshover li.plain ul li a, #portal-globalnav li ul li a - global navigation drop-down link
63    * #portal-globalnav .csshover li.plain ul li a:hover, #portal-globalnav li ul li a:hover - global navigation
64      drop-down link hover
65
66
67You can click  button on 'drop down menu' configlet form to reset menu.
68This can be usefull in case  broken html of menu code. Generated code is based
69on status of 'Automatically generate tabs' in your 'Navigation settings'
70(in Plone 2.1+). However you will lose your previous code of menu with all submenus
71after click on 'regenerate menu'.
72
73If you want to 'regenerate menu' you should pay attention to status of
74'Automatically generate tabs' in your 'Navigation settings' (in Plone 2.1+).
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76
77Authors
78
79  * Vitaliy Podoba
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