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So I'm working on creating 2 menu's.  Horizontal and Vertical...with DIFFERENT links.

Well after searching I figured out how to make the vertical menu come alive.  I created a new "page" with "Show In Menu" NOT selected.  This new page has several child pages that will be displayed in my new vertical menu.

Then I use the following code to display this new vertical menu where I want...
{cms_module module='menumanager' start_element="10"}

When I got everything together it worked great.  Looks awesome.  I was VERY happy. 

Well now all of a sudden it's not showing up.  No errors or anything just not being displayed...HOWEVER, when I disable CSS using firebug it's there...it's got an extra bulleted item that's blank but it's there...also, when I "View Page Source" it's there.  It doesn't appear to be a font color issue either because I changed background colors and "select all" on the page and it's still not showing.

I was fiddling with templates and CSS but not sure what I might have done...Just seems like it disappeared.

My brain is hurting right now and I can't figure it out...I know it's something stupid too...

Any insight?
Thanks,
Mike

With out a link, not much help...

cmsms.baldguydesigns.net

First off, line 43 - 45...




You are using a menu template that has an ID on the UL which is throwing an error...

Most likely it is a css thing where you have the a link using white...

Yeah I've explored that avenue...that error is for the top menu which I know isn't right yet.  I've removed the code for the top menu and still no side menu.

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Not sure it's a color issue as I've changed colors and still no menu...

Like I said it WAS showing then all of a sudden gone...

Dr.CSS wrote: First off, line 43 - 45...




You are using a menu template that has an ID on the UL which is throwing an error...

Most likely it is a css thing where you have the a link using white...

Also, the current template has fixed size vertical link areas (Main Menu and Resources) but the template I WAS using built that area as more links are added and when it's enabled the menu area is real small - like nothing is there...so I know it's not a color issue.

Thanks

For the side menu I would use just {menu} tag as it seems it's getting an UL below the regular primary-nav UL and the css says #primary-nav ul display:none, how are you calling it menu tag wise?...

Put the other one in so I see what you mean...

That should be displaying my side menu!  It was working when I first implemented it...no specified template...which might be the problem...what would it normally be calling when nothing is specified?  When fiddling around maybe I deleted what it was originally calling...

Other template (NCleanBlue) has been swapped in...side menu being called the same way.  You can see how small they are...so I know nothing is there...although it IS there...lol and for the resources menu...

Thanks for the help!

I also made sure 10 and 11 are correct items i want to start with...

You must have the cssmenu_ulshadow.tpl set as default in menu manager which means when you call a {menu} that is the one used, this is what leads me to think this...

You have in the top menu and the side menu says this...






Portfolio


And as I said before because the CSS has ul#primary-nav ul {display:none} you wont see the side menu...

You may want to use the childrenof= parameter as the one you are using is giving you the extra UL from the page above it...

What does your page structure look like in content > pages?...

Weird thing is I didn't change anything (that I know of) because it was working nicely...lol

Trying to figure out what I did with the templates or the CSS to cause this...

Page Structure...

Most likely you have the "main menu" page set to not show in the menu, which causes the menu UL LI to exclude it and start with a UL, so it would be {menu childrenof='main-menu} hopefully your menu manager says simple_navigation.tpl (read only)  {menu} with a green check under default...

Well simple_navigation.tpl (read only)  {menu} was NOT the default menu and that was the problem.  It's fine now.  I guess I was fiddling and I changed the default.  I knew I did something in there just couldn't figure out what it was.

Much appreciated.  I knew it was going to be something silly.

Loading good just have to format the CSS to fill the space.
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Now I just have to get rid of the bullets in the horizontal menu and get the rest of the CSS in line...

Thanks again,
Mike