Drop Down Menus

[robert21]

Hello CMS Friends!

Unfortunately, I do not know where to find my system versions or anything of the sort, but I am using a version of CMS Made Simple that uses code (which I believe to be HTML) and which the students who are running the website (because this is for a student run organization) do not and will not know how to code.

I have two questions. The first is how do I set the system so that we do not need to use HTML and instead the"Microsoft Word-Like" System I have seen in youtube.com video tutorials.

My second is that when I add a new page under a parent, and I submit and apply changes, it does not show up on the website itself. In fact, our menu has no drop down functionality and that is what we are most disappointed about and would like to fix (We know CMS can fix that, we just don't know how.)

That's all for now.
Thanks!

[Dr.CSS]

As always in this board it helps to have a link to site to help you, the editor is installed as a core module, older ones used tinyMCE newer version uses MicroTiny a trimmed down version of tinyMCE, look in extensions > modules for them...

Drop down menus need to use the cssmenu.tpl and it's style sheet...

[robert21]

Thank you @Dr.CSS

The website is sidmun.com

[staartmees]

You can find an example of a dropdownmenu in the Simplextemplate. See how it works, transfer it to your template and make the necessary adjustments.

[Dr.CSS]

The drop down pages are there you just can't see them because you set a height on #menu, use the cssmenu.tpl the it's style sheets to make it drop...

[meatPopsicle]

May I chip in with a further question on this please?

I can't quite see how this works - do I need to enable multiple menu levels?

In my template (Conceptwork) I have:
<div id="menu">{menu start_level="1" number_of_levels="1"}</div>

but in my menu I have one parent item that contains 3 or 4 other menu items, but I can't see them in the page source so it doesn't look like it's something that can be enabled by CSS to begin with..

If I do enable multiple menu levels (number_of_levels="xx") then I can see the child items, but they appear on another menu level, without showing as dropdown menu items.
Any thoughts?

Many thanks

[Dr.CSS]

You don't need start_level= if you are trying to get the top menu items to show, number_of_levels is only to restrict how many levels show...

Please read the pages about the menu and how to use...

http://multiintech.com/defaultcontent/h ... nager.html

http://multiintech.com/defaultcontent/d ... ontal.html