Adding Submenus for the Navbar Dropdowns

[kira]

Hi all. After adding several new features to one of my VB sites, my navbar is getting crowded. To save space I'd like to put all the similar extras such as the Store, Gallery, Arcade, etc. in a dropdown menu (similar to the "QuickLinks" dropdown).

However, some of these extras have their own submenus, such as the Store with its links to the Bank, Actions, and so on. So I was wondering if it's possible to add a submenu to one of the DHTML dropdown menus? Since this is kinda confusing, I've attached a sample graphic to better explain what I mean.

I hope you gurus can help. Thanks in advance!

[peterska2]

Here's what I would do.

Rename your 'Quick Links' to 'Member Links' and dump your User CP button from the navbar.

Create a new dropdown list called something like 'Features' and put all your extra items in there.

If you want this coding just ask

[kira]

Thanks very much for responding, peterska! Actually, that's the part I know how to do -- creating a new navbar link and adding a dropdown menu. It's adding an additional level to the dropdown that has me scratching my head. The "features" link would have menu items with subcategories of their own. Just seems more elegant to add a "foldout" sort of layer for items at this lower level.

But if it turns out that submenus are impossible, I'll eliminate some of these subcategories and do as you suggested.

Many thanks again!

[Andy Huang]

I'm not the thread starter, but I'd definetly be interested to see the coding of that if you don't mind sharing

[peterska2]

FIND

	<if condition="$show['member']">
 			<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="usercp.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[user_cp]</a></td>
 		</if>

REMOVE IT

FIND

 <if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid']">
 		    	<td id="usercptools" class="vbmenu_control"><a href="#usercptools">$vbphrase[quick_links]</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("usercptools"); </script></td>		
 			</if>

REPLACE WITH

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid']">
 		    	<td id="usercptools" class="vbmenu_control"><a href="#usercptools">User Links</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("usercptools"); </script></td>		
 			</if>

FIND

<!--<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php?$session[sessionurl]">Home</a></td>-->

ADD BELOW

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid']">
  				<td id="extras" class="vbmenu_control"><a href="#usercptools">[b]YOUR TEXT HERE[/b]</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("extras"); </script></td>		
  			</if>

FIND

    </div>
 	<!-- / user cp tools menu -->
 	</if>

ADD BELOW

	<if condition="$show['member']">
 	<!-- extra menu -->
 	<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="extras" style="display:none">
 		<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
 		
 		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="[b]YOUR LINK HERE[/b]">[b]YOUR TEXT HERE[/b]</a></td></tr>
 		
 		</table>
 	</div>
 	<!-- / extra menu -->
 	</if>

Repeat

<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="[b]YOUR LINK HERE[/b]">[b]YOUR TEXT HERE[/b]</a></td></tr>

as required

[Andy Huang]

Great, thanks

[Strike3Forums]

I want to add something exactly like the attached image as a quick links dropdown. But I can't seem to get it to work (IE, nothing at all dropsdown from the new one.) Is anyone using this on 3.07 with success?

Thanks. It would be very appreaciated.

[Strike3Forums]

Anyone? Or does anyone know how to something similar (shortening a navbar dropdown to different categories or sub menus)? Thanks and sorry for the bump, I've asked about this on vbulletin.org to no reply and this is the closest I have come to seeing something like what I desired.

[kira]

FWIW I was never able to figure out how to create a submenu. I've worked with layers/menus before but couldn't quite grasp how the navbar menu javascript worked, or even precisely where it was located. Sad, huh?

Not much of a help, am I?

[Strike3Forums]

Don't worry about it.

Hopefully though someone will make a hack like this that is easy to install, I am really surprised it hasn't been done. Since I wanted a dropin for my baseball forum that would be a great resource, having it in categories would not only help with the look but would add an extra sense of organization. Oh well, I'll keep my eyes on the lookout.

[steven s]

Hi all. After adding several new features to one of my VB sites, my navbar is getting crowded.

I was thinking about the same problem I am having with my nav bar. I have two rows and even that is crowded.

Have you seen

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=65198

Maybe it will give you some ideas.

[Shelby]

Anyone know how to make submenu's?

[peterska2]

There is no function to do this. This requires modifying the code. We cannot officially support code modifications or forums running modified code, however you can try searching or asking for help with this over at vBulletin.org.

[RobParker]

FIND

    <if condition="$show['member']">
     <!-- extra menu -->
     <div class="vbmenu_popup" id="extras" style="display:none">
         <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
         
         <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="[B]YOUR LINK HERE[/B]">[B]YOUR TEXT HERE[/B]</a></td></tr>
         
         </table>
     </div>
     <!-- / extra menu -->
     </if>

Repeat

<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="[B]YOUR LINK HERE[/B]">[B]YOUR TEXT HERE[/B]</a></td></tr>

as required

I'm not sure if this has changed as this is a really old post but I thought it might be useful to let people know that to get this working I had to change the id="extras" above to id="extras_menu".