IE7 and conditional menu problem

IE7 and conditional menu problem

by Richard Oelmann -
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I am using a combination of Mary Evans' Aardvark-Lightheaded theme with the YUI menu from Shaun's Aardvark_Pro_1.4. I have also added a conditional menu which is dependant on the user (in my case,because I was already using it for other things, I used a Department setting on the user profile rather than user roles)

The system works well on IE8, FF, Chrome and Safari. However, I get a problem on IE7 in that the menus for everyone work fine, but the conditional menu, only the heading on the main menu bar shows and not the drop down.

I've attached screenshot and a snippet of the menu code whch shows the php used for the conditional menu.

Any suggestions would b greatly appreciated

Richard

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Re: IE7 and conditional menu problem

by Richard Oelmann -
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Apologies -forgot to attach screenshot and clip!

Richard

     <?php if (isloggedin() && $USER->department == 'Parent') { ?>
          <li class="yuimenubaritem"><a class="yuimenubaritemlabel" href="#">Fourth menu</a>

            <div class="yuimenu">
              <div class="bd">                                       
                <ul>
                  <li class="yuimenuitem"><a class="yuimenuitemlabel" href="#">First Menu Item</a></li>
                  <li class="yuimenuitem"><a class="yuimenuitemlabel" href="#">Second Menu Item</a></li>
                  <li class="yuimenuitem"><a class="yuimenuitemlabel" href="#">Third Menu Item</a></li>
                </ul>
              </div>
            </div>                                       

          </li>
        <?php } else { ?>

           <li> </li>

    <?php } ?>

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Re: IE7 and conditional menu problem

by Mary Evans -
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Hi Richard,

Is the behaviour of your site in IE7 when you physically use that browser version or is it in compatibility mode in IE8. If the latter then it may be giving you a false view of things.

Mary
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Re: IE7 and conditional menu problem

by Richard Oelmann -
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Does it in both Mary,
First spotted it in IE8 compatibility mode and initially put it down to that, but when I checked on a WinXP desktop actually running IE7 the same thing happens.

Richard
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Re: IE7 and conditional menu problem

by Mary Evans -
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In that case then, Richard, could it be IE7 just does not like the <li></li> tags after the if else conditional statement?

I was wondering if it might be better to write the conditional statement just as...

<?php if (isloggedin() && $USER->department == 'Parent') {

echo '<li class="yuimenubaritem">';
echo '<a class="yuimenubaritemlabel" href="#">Fourth menu</a>';
echo '<div class="yuimenu">';
echo '<div class="bd">';
echo '<ul><li class="yuimenuitem">';
echo '<a class="yuimenuitemlabel" href="#">First Menu Item</a></li>';
echo '<li class="yuimenuitem">';
echo '<a class="yuimenuitemlabel" href="#">Second Menu Item</a></li>';
echo '<li class="yuimenuitem">';
echo '<a class="yuimenuitemlabel" href="#">Third Menu Item</a></li>';
echo '</ul></div></div></li>';
}
?>


Just a thought...
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Re: IE7 and conditional menu problem

by Richard Oelmann -
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Hi Mary,
Have tried your suggestion - unfortunately without success sad

Richard
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