| Joomla! 1.5 Native Split Menus |
| Sunday, 11 May 2008 18:35 |
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Joomla! 1.5 has many cool new features that have made our lives easier. In the Joomla! 1.0.x line, if you wanted to have Split Menus, you had to "trick" the system into doing what you wanted by micromanaging Menus and their Menu Items. Some big name template makers had fancy scripts that would mimic this technology in the past. Let's see it in action! This first image is an image of the Main Menu once "Features" is selected. You can see that the Sub-Navigation drops out underneath its parent. This is the typical way menus work. Let's now take a look at what the Split Navigation looks like. As you can see from this image, once the "Features" menu item was clicked, it's Sub-Navigation did not drop down like normal. It shows up on the right side. This is because I told it to show up on the right side. You could have it show anywhere you wish as it is its own module, independent of Main Menu. The only part that ties the two together is that they are pulling data from the same menu. Let's see how to do this yourself!
Hopefully, this sheds a little light on the subject of Split Menus and gives you new insight of another of the many new feature available in Joomla! 1.5. Kenneth Crowder has been involved in the Joomla! Community since the days of Mambo. He has volunteered many hours to help out the Open Source Project. He is considered an expert in all things related to Joomla!. He was a Technical Reviewer for Joomla! A Users Guide, as well as another book currently in the editing phase. Learn more about Ken.
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