Menu hiding behind main post area

[Anonymous]

i love the plug in and the customization is awesome… I am having trouble with the menu hiding behind my main post area… i tried playing with the position:relative tags in my style-core.css but it threw my theme off. i’m not familliar with z-index and how it works but anything to get the menu to jump in front of my posts would be great.

also, the structure for the custom menu items is handy… i assume you can put more tags for the flyout menus? i haven’t tried it since i’m having problems with my menus showing up as mentioned above… thanks for the work you’ve done! the beta is great! even better once it works with my frankenstined theme.

http://www.routinefly.com/

[Anonymous]

i was able to fix it by putting a z-index:99 in my header tag… but it still dosen’t work in IE… damn you IE!!!!! any suggestions?

[imported_Ryan]

It seems to working fine for me in Firefox 2 and IE7.

[RobRush]

follow up… i was able to fix it by z-indexing the #header and #header .nav divs in my style-core.css.  for anyone else having this problem it looks like IE must follow a chain of z-indexs if the position is defined… the #header.nav div is where my dropdown menu is, i gave it a z-index of 1000 while the regular #header div was assigned a z-index of 500.  seemed to do the trick.  i’m now having problems with permalinks.  i want to switch over to a %year/%date%/%postname link structure but the dropdown plugin seems to break.  it will, simply list everyhing in a UL LI format, i tried deactivating the plug-in, changing the links, then re-activating and it didn’t work, also tried changing the structure of the drop down config after the permalinks were changed.  any advice ryan?  the new site looks real clean, keep up the good work.

[RobRush]

i see plenty of other site that have it working so it’s something specific to my site… i have no idea what it could be though.  ack!

[imported_Ryan]

[quote:2w0eu1rc]i’m now having problems with permalinks.  i want to switch over to a %year/%date%/%postname link structure but the dropdown plugin seems to break.[/quote:2w0eu1rc]

Ohh, we that’s very interesting. So two people now who are having this problem now ” title=”Sad” />

What exactly happens when you change permalinks? I can’t for the life of me see any possible way in which that cause a problem. But since two of you are reporting the same issue I’d better taker a closer look.

Which plugin are you using? Beta or stable version? – both should work, but just want to check.

[Anonymous]

I am also having this issue.  I am not sure what to do.  I assigned the menubar a z index of 1, yet all it did was disable the bold in the navigation, so I removed the z index off.

http://www.simprograms.com/?page_id=261

[Judhudson]

I too am having this same exact issue.  I tried the Z Index method and it just disabled my bold links on the menubar, so I removed that code.

http://www.simprograms.com/?page_id=262

I’m using the beta plugin by the way.  Not sure how to get it to show above the areas…

[RobRush]

try putting the z-index in your #header tag, not in your suckerfish css sheet.  it looks like your menus are stuck open.

[Judhudson]

Please forgive my ignorance.  I’m still trying to learn the ropes on CSS… I tried placing it in various divs in my header…and quickly had to remove them as the page would spit out an error. 

What exactly am I suppose to look for?  Example (I know it is wrong)

<div id="headerimg"> changes to <div id="headerimg" z-index:99> ?

[RobRush]

in your style.css or stylesheet.css there should be a #header area, the "headerimg" is prolly for the graphic at the top.  your #header tag will have things like width and height… depending on the theme, i’m not really a pro either but i got mine to work so i bet you can get yours…  figure out what div your dropdown menu is in, and make sure that has a higher z-index than anything else.

[imported_Ryan]

Judhudson – There is something very bizarre going on with your code. You have two [code:h2hukdw6]<ul id="suckerfishnav">[/code:h2hukdw6] sections in your HTML … there should only be one!

Have you modified anything inside the plugin? ie: changed the actual PHP code? Or have used something other than the standard [code:h2hukdw6]<?php suckerfish() ?>[/code:h2hukdw6] to display the menu?

If not, could you post back with exactly what version of the plugin you are using and what code you have entered into your theme and I’ll see if I can help.

Thanks ” title=”Smiley” />

[imported_Ryan]

Judhudson – There are other HTML errors in your menu as well. For example, in the following, you have unordered list inside another unordered list, but no list item is specified to store the first one in, so it will throw a fit when the browser tries to render it …
[code:14fszhz6]<li>Home</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.simprograms.com/">SimPrograms.com</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sporeprograms.com/">SporePrograms.com</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
[/code:14fszhz6]

[Judhudson]

Thank you, I fixed the Z Index issue! 

As for the coding errors… I am following this:  https://geek.hellyer.kiwi/forum/index.php?to … 243#msg243

<ul id="suckerfishnav">
<li><a href="">Tomato</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="">Red</a></li>
<li><a href="">Green</a></li>
<li><a href="">Black</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="">Capsicum</a></li>
<li><a href="">Cucumber</a></li>
</ul>

[Judhudson]

Never mind, I think I see what you are talking about!

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