Automating room allocated for top-level menu

Another automatic cascading menu for Actinic 5 onwards. This one allows more modern DHTML effects.
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norman
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Automating room allocated for top-level menu

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The menu isn't part of the page (it floats above it) so it isn't easy to allow space for more entries as the Section structure changes.

There are 2 kludges you can do to help reserve room.

Make an image spacer.gif that you put in the menu area. It need only be a 1x1 transparent image.

Then either:

1) Make a Custom Property MENUHEIGHT containing the height of the required area. Change your spacer.gif code in Act_Primary.html to be something like

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<img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="CUSTOMVAR:MENUHEIGHT">
Now you can manage that size without template tinkering by changing MENUHEIGHT in Design / Options / Site Defaults.


2) The JavaScript structure section_tree_names is loaded by NorCascade it has a length property equal to the number of top-level sections. So you could use JavaScript in Act_Primary.html to create your spacer with a computed height.

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<script language=JavaScript>
<!--
document.write('<img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="' + (section_tree_names.length * 25) + '">');
//-->
</script>
Change the 25 above to suit the height of each table cell.
Norman
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