bulletmenu vs cssmenu

[finster]

Hi all,

I am starting to re-model the menus on my existing websites ready to start migrating to cmsms. Which menu system should I be using - the built-in bulletmenu or the cssmenu module?

I want to start with a robust unordered list and then write my own CSS to turn this into a navigation bar (like the list apart / listutorial articles). Is there a "strategic" one which I should choose? i.e. is one going to get lost by the wayside in the next few releases?

Thanks.

[westis]

Hi finster,

Bulletmenu, CSSMenu and EllNav will all be in the 0.11 release. You can check them out at http://svntest.cmsmadesimple.org

Use CSSMenu if you want dropdowns, otherwise bulletmenu if you want the menu in one place (vertical or horizontal) or EllNav for a split menu.

[finster]

Thanks for the reply,

I'm not really interested (yet) in using the provided CSS for dropdowns etc - I am more interested in getting a "standard" properly-formatted unordered list out into the html. I tried bulletmenu thinking that it would fit my requirements but there looked like a few errors in the rendering of and tags (although it could be me! )

CSS Menu looks more like it, but I don't want to create the appropriate CSS only for the format of the html to change in the near future....

Although I have just noticed that a "section header" in the CSS Menu doesn't seem to have a class attached to it so I have no way of making this appear different in my menu.

Anybody have similar experiences?

Thanks.

[westis]

I'm not really interested (yet) in using the provided CSS for dropdowns etc - I am more interested in getting a "standard" properly-formatted unordered list out into the html. I tried bulletmenu thinking that it would fit my requirements but there looked like a few errors in the rendering of and tags (although it could be me! )

What are the errors in the rendering of bulletmenu? It's always worked fine for me, it just spits out an unordered list that is easy to style with CSS. And adding a section header and styling it should be no problem. EllNav basically works the same way. Do you have an URL?

But adding a class to the CSSMenu section header would be good indeed.

[finster]

OK, Here is the structure and the HTML generated: -

1. Content - Home
2. Section Header - Section One
2.1. Content - Content One
3. Content - Content Two
4. Seperator
5. Section Header - Section Two

Code: Select all

<div class="bulletmenu">

<ul>
<li><a href="http://localhost/cmsmadesimple/index.php?page=Home" class="currentpage">Home</a></ul>
<div class="sectionheader">Section One</div>
<ul>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://localhost/cmsmadesimple/index.php?page=Test">Content A</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://localhost/cmsmadesimple/index.php?page=Submenu">Content B</a></li>
<li style="list-style-type: none;"><hr class="separator" /></ul>
<div class="sectionheader">Section Two</div>
<ul>
</li></ul></div>

This doesn't look quite right to me - the very first doesn't have a closing before the . I could kind of understand if this was a header or had children, but it should sit on its own.

Does this look correct or am I just being stupid? (It's been known before! )

[westis]

What version of CMSMS are you using? In the 0.11 versions the output of section headers in the bulletmenu tag has changed. So an upgrade to 0.11 beta5 (and very soon 0.11) should solve that problem.

[finster]

Hi,

I was using the latest stable release (0.10.4). I've upgraded to 0.11beta5, and the same page produces a much better bulletmenu. There are a few differences to what it was in 10.4 but it should be fairly straightforward to tweak my CSS. The nesting (if that's a proper word!) of the 's also looks a lot better.

So is bulletmenu here to stay in its current format for the forseeable future? I would hate to get all my quirky cross-browser CSS working only for bulletmenu to disappear/break in a future release.....

Great CMS by the way - I'll crack on in preparing my websites to be converted....

Thanks.

[westis]

Yeah, as far as I know bulletmenu will stay for quite a bit, in one way or another, as it is just an unordered list basically. But if menus will change in later versions there will also be some way of upgrading, as lots of people use bulletmenu.