100% Width Span Menu

Poster: leatkins
Dated: Thursday December 11 2003 - 14:26:03 GMT

I was wondering if it was possible when setting the width of a vertical menu to somehow tell the menu items to exand out to fill the width of the menu as well?

Thanks!
Laura

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday December 11 2003 - 22:28:40 GMT

Maybe I'm just having a bad day (actually I am!), but what you're asking is not getting through to me. Care to try again, or post a URL so we can see what's happening?

Poster: Maz
Dated: Friday December 12 2003 - 6:59:51 GMT

I'll take a guess its a horizontal menu

Or we might be talking about a new type of website 100% menu.

maz

100% Width Span Menu

Poster: leatkins
Dated: Friday December 12 2003 - 19:51:04 GMT

Sorry, I meant horizontal menu.

What I want to do is have a horizontal menu that spans the whole width of the screen. But I only have 5 items in the menu (help, tools, about, ...). When I use the span = 100% the background colour of the menu spans across the whole screen, but there is a big space after the last menu item. I know that I can specify the alignment of the menu items, and if I set it to align = centre I have a large space before the first item and after the last item.

So I was wondering if the width of each menu item could expand out as well to fill the whole space of the horizontal menu.

Hopefully this post is clearer

Laura

Poster: Maz
Dated: Friday December 12 2003 - 21:45:53 GMT

I haven't tried this with the menu since way..back.

However, I use tables to do this, the first and last cell are empty to stretch the page, while the table link cells have a strict width.

I'm not sure how this will work; try making the first and last (empty space   & n b s p ; [without spaces or you wouldn't see it here]) type=header, the menu items a fixed width and see what happens.

Regards,
maz

Poster: John
Dated: Friday December 12 2003 - 23:13:33 GMT

http://milonic.com/menusample.php?sampleid=26 might be an interesting place to start!

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Saturday December 13 2003 - 12:42:14 GMT

The following seems to work in Netscape 6,7, IE 5.0 and Opera 6, but not Opera 7. Others would have to test other browsers.

Ruth

100% Width Span Menu

Poster: leatkins
Dated: Monday December 15 2003 - 15:45:49 GMT

Thanks Ruth it worked perfectly. That's exactly what I was looking for!

Laura

Poster: halcyon
Dated: Tuesday January 6 2004 - 22:28:55 GMT

itemwidth="100%"; seems to be the essential piece.. I had the same problem with just menuwidth set to 100%.. add item width and your in business.
Thanks!!
-David