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May 20, 2005

Pull-down MuNu Menu

Okay. I'm beginning to puzzle out how to do certain things with my blog, and yes I am still a neophyte at this!

I have two pull-down menus now (that actually work! -- thanks in no small part to comments and tips here on Munuviana) and I want to change the font-size on them -- especially the MuNu one because it takes up so much horizontal real estate.

What can I do to change the font characteristics (size, color, style, etc.) of those pull-down menus?

Actually, I'm assuming that changing to a smaller/different font would make the pull-down menus smaller. If that isn't true, then how would I actually make the menus smaller?

Posted by: USAdave at 08:14 PM | Comments (24) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Dave,

Many have asked. I'm not sure anyone has found the answer.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at May 21, 2005 02:44 PM

2 Put the php code in a div where class=side, like this:

<div class="side">
<?php include "http://blogroll.mu.nu/pulldown.i"; ?>
</div>

That should make it the same font as your blogroll.

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at May 21, 2005 09:26 PM

3 Hi Dave! If you're the same Dave that emailed me recently, I sent you a few emails. If not - oopsie.

You can modify the font in the say that David (the above David) suggested, but don't forget to change the font of the "side" attribute in your stylesheet.

If that doesn't work, you can jimmy it up a bit in your main index. Let me know if you need to do so, and we'll chat;-)

Posted by: sadie @ at May 22, 2005 12:11 AM

4 David & Sadie,

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Your advice solved my problem, and also taught me something more about the care & feeding of a blogsite!

I appreciate both of your inputs very, very much!

(And Sadie: you and I emailed a bit the first week in May. You solved a problem with my blog then, too . . . somehow you keep rescuing me . . .

Posted by: Dave @ at May 22, 2005 06:03 AM

5 Aackk! Last night it worked. The fony was fine, the pulldown menu was behaving nicely. But this morning, the blasted thing is back to the way it was before I added the code!

What is going on? Help?

Posted by: Dave @ at May 22, 2005 03:01 PM

6 "fony"="font" in my previous post . . .

Posted by: Dave @ at May 22, 2005 03:01 PM

7 Speaking of Pull-Down MuNu blogrolls........

How come mine hasn't automatically updated to included our newest addition to the family? I thought it specifically said something along the lines of "now fixed to auto-update" at the top of the "pull down blog roll" code on this page?

Posted by: kyer @ at May 23, 2005 02:34 AM

8 Evidently I'm suffering from a severe case of cluelessness. I figured out the problem.

Please disregard my previous two comments.

Or, as Roseanna Roseanna Danna would say, . . . "Nevermind . . ."

Posted by: Dave @ at May 23, 2005 02:45 AM

9 Indeed. Never forget to feed the blog, but try not to do so after midnight;-)

As if I'm one to talk....

Posted by: sadie @ at May 23, 2005 08:09 AM

10 Hmmm...and if that has no effect at all? (Other ideas, things to look for?)

Posted by: Ogre @ at May 24, 2005 02:33 PM

11 When I fixed my pull-down menu problem using tips provided by David and Sadie (above), I was using my wife's laptop.

The next morning when I posted my panicked comment about the problem coming back, I was on my desktop computer.

I found that my browser settings were the cause of my grief (I was using larger fonts in both the IE 6 browser, and the XP OS desktop settings).

Now you know the source of my shame . . .

Posted by: Dave @ at May 24, 2005 05:03 PM

12 Interesting. I'm looking at your blog in IE6, Dave, and I see no difference in the size of the text in the drop-down list. Changing the text size settings appears to have no effect at all.

Posted by: Ogre @ at May 24, 2005 05:23 PM

13 I don't understand . . . The text size and font style both changed when I made those changes to my templates. I had to tweak IE6 on my desktop before it (my desktop's browser) recognized the changes, though.

I'll have to look at it with different browsers, though, to see if it is displaying consistently across browser applications . . .

Posted by: Dave @ at May 24, 2005 07:44 PM

14 Or maybe you were looking at a cached page?

Posted by: Susie @ at May 24, 2005 11:30 PM

15 As far as I can remember when trying to resolve this issue for myself some time ago... Firefox and other standards-compliant browsers will apply your div formatting to the elements of the pulldown menu just fine, but IE completely barfed - essentially ignoring the formatting within the list.

When I get home, I'll see if I can find my notes, but I was never able to resolve it, even with lots of others helping tackle it.

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at May 25, 2005 12:51 AM

16 Looking in IE and Netscape 8, that does indeed to appear to be the case -- Netscape sizes the drop-down while IE leaves it one size.

Posted by: Ogre @ at May 25, 2005 02:15 PM

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