I am pretty excited about the new CFMenu functionality. It's by far the easiest interface I've used to create a DHTML/JavaScript/CSS menu. Basically there are two tags, <cfmenu> sets up the basic settings for the menu and <cfmenuitem> us used to build the menu items structure.
You can nest as many <cfmenuitem> levels as you want, however, once you get past 5 levels deep, you start to get noticeably slow page loads. Once you get past 10 levels,
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Thanks for this overview. It works great now. :-)
CFMENU when initially launched seems to open with a broken (unformatted) display and then "snaps" together when the page is completely loaded. This is similar to the CFWINDOW problem
where initially hidden pop-up windows have their names display on the page and then disappear after the page is fully loaded.
I'm wondering if you are experiencing this and if you may know of a work-around.
Thanks!
I have seen that with both cfwindow and cfmenu and I believe it has mostly to do with the order in which the browser is loading the style sheets and javascript, and more specifically, the time it takes between loading the page HTML and loading then applying the style sheets and javascript.
Off the top of my head, the best (untested) workaround I can think of is to create a div layer around your cfwindow/cfmenu tag that is set to display:none then use cfajaxonload to call a javascript function that changes that div layer so that that it is visible. This should hide the contents of your window and menu until after the css and javascript has been applied and the window/menu will all appear at once.
When I am using AJAX components I have sometime some problem with them.
The same with your example about menu (is not properly showed in browser). when I am checking Validation (in my Dreaweaver8) I have errors like:
"The tag name "cfmenu" not found in currently active versions.
When I am checking TargetBrowserCheck (Dreamweaver8) I have errors like:
"The cfmenu is not supported (names of browsers)".
The same problem I have with cfajaximport, then my browser give me an additional message about unknown runtime error
I wil be preciate if you help me.
Eg I have a cfmenu with a "home" as a menu item, when the user clicks on this menu item it takes you to that link within the current site and I would like the home menu item to be highighted so it's easy for the user to see what page they are on.
I noticed that there are specific things that disable the menu
functionality, such as clicking the Back button on IE. (meaning
that I no longer get the down arrow, and I can't click the link)
Is there something that I have to do, to force the page to reload?
Thank you.