Problem with template/stylesheet Navigation Simple Vertical <h3>

[Ronja]

Hi all,

I am new to this board so please forgive if I should be posting on something that's already documented. I had a good look round the forum but couldn't find a solution to my problem.

I am running CMSMadeSimple 1.9.1, using the "Top simple navigation + left subnavigation + 1 column" template and the simple navigation templates for both menus.

From what I have read, the menu manager uses the simple_navigation.tpl as default template which supposedly uses tags for the vertical submenu and the styling for the vertical menu items can be done via the tag in the respective stylesheet.

My problem now is that no matter what I change for the tag, the changes are not reflected in the site. The styling with the rest of the stylesheet works perfectly fine.

I have checked the rendered code and there are no tags.

Can anybody please help and tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanx a million,
Ronja

[Dr.CSS]

Both of the menu style sheets attached to that template have the h3 calls in them...

div#menu_horiz li.currentpage h3 span  and  div#menu_vert ul h3

The h3 is invoked when the page is current, as in active, and it has no children...

{elseif $node->current == true}

{$node->menutext}

[Ronja]

I couldn't get it to work and finally reinstalled 1.9.1 again because I suspected my installation to be haywire. Same problem, I hadn't touched any of the stylesheets. Now I am running 1.6.8 and it seems to work fine.

I don't know my way round CMS Made Simple well and don't really understand the menu template code but like I said the rendering engine wasn't writing any text into the generated page code. :shrug: Thanks for your help anyway.

Is there anywhere where I can get a good overview of the classes that our being used in the templates?

R.

[Dr.CSS]

If you would have given a link to the site I would have been more help, the only way 1.9.1 would mess up is if the server wasn't up to it's requirements which you would have seen on install, is a good chance you didn't find any h3 if all pages had children...

I use Firefox with the Web Dev. tool bar and it's outline tool to find what the ID or class of something is, and the edit css function to change on the fly the look of things...

If you are editing a page the style drop in tiny will have all the classes of the attached style sheets, else you just have to look thru all the style sheets attached to the template you are using...

[Ronja]

... the only way 1.9.1 would mess up is if the server wasn't up to it's requirements which you would have seen on install ...

I am afraid that's what I did see on install.  The recommended php version was higher than what I have on my local machine but I decided to ignore it because my system fulfilled the minimum requirements. I somehow thought it would only affect fancy modules, etc. and I am not capable of doing fancy stuff anyway. The problem usually isn't with the system but the person in front of it ...

One of these days (when I've finished fighting with the stylesheets) I will upgrade my local webserver to something that includes the recommended php version to see whether this is really it. I'll post to let other people know who might run into the same problem and pull their hair out like me.

Thanks ever so much for your help, advice and patience.
R.