DropMenu - First and Last

At the moment the dropmenu script generates a class for the last items in a menu. ie,

<li class="last">

This is great because I’ve got a css menu that makes extensive use of sprite manipulation in order to optimize button graphics and rollovers - and at the end of the menu the sprite position is moved so that the graphic for the last button has a rounded corner. So, using the class "last" I can separate it’s background position.

The problem I’m having, is that the method is also used for the first button - so I really need to generate a class for the first item in the navigation and call that, say; "first". ie. <li class="first">

Would anyone know a quick hack for the DropMenu script - so I can attach such a class to the first item in the menu ?

I’m not a php person so any tips would be greatly appreciated - thanks

Log it in the bugtracker as a dropmenu request. This weekend sees dropmenu work a goin’ on.

Quote from: rthrash at Mar 30, 2006, 09:22 PM

Log it in the bugtracker as a dropmenu request. This weekend sees dropmenu work a goin’ on.

No problem - I hacked it myself, if your interested in the menu I was talking about go to

http://www.modxhost.com/menu/modxhostmenu.htm

If your playing the the dropmenu you might want to fix the top level ul - it might want to be an ID not a class, unless you’d anticipated it being used more than once in the same document. I had to make it an ID since I hit problems trying to implement the script using getelementbyClass and IE6, worked fine with FF - but did nothing for IE

Once I’ve integrated the menu with the tutorials and site redesign, I’ll publish the hack and the navigation system etc etc

Thanks Anyway

NB: I haven’t cleaned the css yet, yeah - it’s still in beta like IE7, and it’s not live either

Nice menu. Please share the hacks when you get them ready. Thanks!

Quote from: rthrash at Mar 30, 2006, 11:09 PM

Nice menu. Please share the hacks when you get them ready. Thanks!

The dropmenu hack is here

http://www.modxhost.com/menu/dropmenufirstlast.zip

The hack adds ’first’ to the first instance of category, and ’first’ to the first sub menu list item, and changes the top level ul to an ID.

eg

<ul id="topnav">
<li class="firstcategory">Item
<ul>
<li class="first">

It’s useful for the methods used in the menu