Level 2 Dropdown Not Appearing

Dear Friends,

In a jam, facing a crazy deadline, and need a hand with source code. I've used MenuWriter successfully before, but for some reason the gremlins are out in force on this project — getting strange javascript errors, level-2 tabs not appearing in generated menus, etc.

That said, I need to add a sub-menu tab to a level-1 tab. Here's the basic code I'm working with:

<ul class="level-0" id="cssmw">
<li><a href="#">HOME</a></li>
<li class="parent"><a href="#">NAV TAB A</a>
<ul class="level-1">
<li><a href="#">NavTab-A1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">NavTab-A2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">NavTab-A3</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">NAV TAB B</a>
<ul class="level-1">
<ul class="level-1">
<li><a href="#">NavTab-B1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">NavTab-B2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">NavTab-B3</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">NAV TAB C</a>
<ul class="level-1">
<li><a href="#">NavTab-C1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">NavTab-C2</a></li>
</ul>
</li>

I need to add an additional flyout tab to "NavTab-B1" and NavTab-C1" in their respective submenus, but am drawing a blank for the proper code. If anyone can show me the correct HTML for this, I would greatly appreciate it! Just no time to work through the MenuWriter glitches for this one. Thanks so much in advance for your time!

For the javascript errors, try deleting the Dreamweaver cache file from the user configuration folder:
common_installation_issues.pdf



You should not be editing the menu structure in the source code, you should be editing the menu structure using the CSS Menu Writer wizard so that the correct CSS will be generated to handle the extra levels of menu that you add. Editing the structure by hand will not allow the css for the level 2 and level 3 menus to be generated.

Thanks for your response, Jason. Deleted file as per instructions, but still not getting level-2 tabs.

It renders perfectly in the 'browser preview' mode — shows top level, first drop down, and fly-out tabs from that. But when I 'finish' and the code is placed in the HTML doc, only the top level and first drop down tabs appear.

Any other thoughts would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time.

please post a link where i could see the problem to investigate.

Working from 'localhost' for now, but attached please find zipped file w/everything included. Thank you again for your prompt response!

your page is working for me when I test it on my server. I am including a screen shot.

Thanks, Jason, but sorry, maybe I wasn't completely clear. The trouble is I'm getting no 'sub-menu' tabs from the 'sub-menu' tab. (Is that 'level-3'?)

I've attached a screen cap of what the preview window shows. This is what I'm expecting — flyouts tabs on the primary dropdown. But all I'm getting in the output is the same as your test: just one primary dropdown, and no tabs shooting out from them.

FWIW, this seems to work OK on other menu themes, just not the one I'm trying to create.

Thanks again for your help!

the files you sent only have a top level and level 1 menu.


you should edit the menu to add the other levels.

to edit the menu, select it design view, then click the edit contents button in the property inspector.


make sure the menu.php file is not open in Dreamweaver when you edit the menu.

Thanks so much for your time and patience, Jason. Greatly appreciated! I'll give that a shot now!

Works like a charm! Thanks again, Jason!