Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

You're reading from   Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery Enhance your Joomla! Sites with the power of jQuery extensions, plugins, and more

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849512046
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Concepts
Arrow right icon
Toc

Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Let's Start Making a Better Siteā€”Images FREE CHAPTER 2. Site Contentā€”Our Next Step 3. Embedding Rich Media Features with Joomla! Plugins 4. One Last Look at Joomla! jQuery Modules 5. Refactoring Our Site 6. Getting Our Hands on Coding JavaScript 7. Creating Our Own Modules 8. Building Complete Solutions, Modules, and Components 9. Going Further with Our Component Development 10. Problems and Usability Index

Limitations of Joomla! menu modules


By default, we have some interesting options when creating menus for our siteā€”be it vertical menus or horizontal ones. This, mixed with the always useful CSS, will help us create very interesting menus for our site.

However, we face some limitations when working with menus, for example, drop-down menus. Though this can be achieved for sure, it's not as straightforward as we think it is. Take for example our template menu shown in the following screenshot:

It has worked for now. However, imagine that you want to convert the News menu into a drop-down menu, so that when a visitor moved his or her mouse pointer over it a structure like the following will be seen:

  • News

    • News 1

    • News 2

    • News 3

    • News 4

First, we need to go to our administrator screen. For this example you can use any menu you want, but I am going to use...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image