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browndog23
04-10-2009, 02:03 PM
1) Script Title: Smooth Navigational Menu (v1.02)

2) Script URL (on DD): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/ddsmoothmenu.htm

3) Describe problem:
First off, thank you to the people behind Dynamic Drive. A fantastic variety of great scripts!!
The problem I'm having is with an error in Dreamweaver CS3 templates.
I can successfully run the script on an independent HTML page but when I incorporate it with the template to build the rest of the site from I get an "Unbalanced #edit region tag"
I can seem to figure out where the error is.
It always appears on the line that has this URL:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">

If anyone else has a similar problem or can help me out, I'd really appreciate it.
thanks
Peter
ddadmin
04-11-2009, 05:39 AM
In general it doesn't matter what HTML editor you're using to create your pages, as long as the editor doesn't inadvertently modify any JavaScript code added inside the page. MS Frontpage does this for example, in which the solution is to insert the code using Frontpage's Insert "HTML Markup" option from the toolbar. I'm not sure if there's an equivalent in DreamWeaver, but I gather there should be.
browndog23
04-12-2009, 12:40 AM
thanks for the response my friend, I will give that a try and report back.
once again, great script!
thanks
bd23
browndog23
04-18-2009, 02:34 AM
Hello again, I have all but abandoned trying to insert the menu into the template itself but have not tried putting the Menu contents in an external file and fetched using Ajax.
The code seems right and I have followed the example on the menu page, even as far as duplicating all the variables, but the menu just doesn't load.
I'm a noob but would appreciate a bit of guidance.
:(
thanks
bd23
browndog23
04-18-2009, 03:07 AM
Awesome! Trial and error is a wonderfully painful thing...

I have solved the problem. I removed the offending line:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">

fixed the directory paths to the root folder so the template page now displays the raw menu and the create HTML pages call the js from templates/

And the menu now works beautifully.
ddadmin
04-18-2009, 07:24 AM
Persistence does pay off! Good to hear you finally got it working.