Need help fixing this... *tis frustrating*

**Twilightrose917** · 03-04-2008, 05:27 PM

1) Script Title: Floating Menu Script

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

3) Describe problem: The menu shows up in the top left corner of the screen, but is too far up... you can't see the title or the first link inside the box, and I haven't been able to figure out how to fix it. I also want to move it so that it's down in the bottom left corner, but I don't know how.

**Jas** · 03-04-2008, 08:48 PM

Can you provide a link to a live page?

**Twilightrose917** · 03-05-2008, 02:47 PM

um... no. I don't have it on a server yet... would posting a copy of the script work?

**Jas** · 03-05-2008, 07:00 PM

That would work fine

And what browser are you viewing in? Or is this a problem in all browsers?

**Twilightrose917** · 03-05-2008, 07:15 PM

It doesn't work in IE, but when I tried it this morning on a different computer I used Safari and it worked fine... there are links to other pages that i've made - do you need the script for those pages as well or can you work with just the homepage?

**Jas** · 03-06-2008, 02:17 AM

I had guessed as much. It seems 90% of problems are reported in IE, lol. Anyway, only the code in question will be necessary (i.e. the html, css, and javascript; No other pages should be needed). Be sure to put the code in code tags [code][/code].

**Twilightrose917** · 03-06-2008, 12:23 PM

okay - here it is:

Code:

 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Portfolio Index</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body,td,th {
	font-size: 12pt;
	color: #000000;
}
body {
	background-color: #0099FF;
}
a {
	font-family: Papyrus;
	font-size: 12pt;
	color: #FF0000;
}
a:link {
	text-decoration: underline;
}
a:visited {
	text-decoration: underline;
	color: #9900FF;
}
a:hover {
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
	text-decoration: underline;
}
.style1 {font-size: 18pt}
-->
</style>

</head>

<body>

<div align="center" class="style1"><p>Welcome!</p></div>
<div align="center"><h4><p>&nbsp;My name is Alyssa Chvala, and this website is going to be my portfolio. Feel free to look around - I've done work in several different programs and media, including Photoshop, Flash, Illistrator, pencil, pen, pastel, paint. The Navigation bar should be to your left, and it's relatively easy to use. :)</p></h4></div>
<script>
if (!document.layers)
document.write('<div id="divStayTopLeft" style="position:absolute">')
</script>

<layer id="divStayTopLeft">

<!--EDIT BELOW CODE TO YOUR OWN MENU-->

<table border="1" width="175" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    
<td width="100%" bgcolor="#00AACC">
      
<p align="center"><b><font size="4">Navigation Menu</font></b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    
<td width="100%" bgcolor="#00FFFF">
      
<p align="center">*
<a href="Index.html">Home </a><br>
<a href="about me.html">About Me </a><br>
  *
    <a href="photoshop.html">Photoshop</a><br>
  *
    <a href="illistrator.html">Illistrator </a><br>
  *
    <a href="flash.html">Flash</a><br>
  *
  <a href="noncomputerwork.html">Non- Computer Work </a></td>
  
</tr>
</table>
<!--END OF EDIT-->

</layer>



<script type="text/javascript">

/*
Floating Menu script-  Roy Whittle (http://www.javascript-fx.com/)
Script featured on/available at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
This notice must stay intact for use
*/

//Enter "frombottom" or "fromtop"
var verticalpos="frombottom"

if (!document.layers)
document.write('</div>')

function JSFX_FloatTopDiv()
{
	var startX = 3,
	startY = 150;
	var ns = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") != -1);
	var d = document;
	function ml(id)
	{
		var el=d.getElementById?d.getElementById(id):d.all?d.all[id]:d.layers[id];
		if(d.layers)el.style=el;
		el.sP=function(x,y){this.style.left=x;this.style.top=y;};
		el.x = startX;
		if (verticalpos=="fromtop")
		el.y = startY;
		else{
		el.y = ns ? pageYOffset + innerHeight : document.body.scrollTop + document.body.clientHeight;
		el.y -= startY;
		}
		return el;
	}
	window.stayTopLeft=function()
	{
		if (verticalpos=="fromtop"){
		var pY = ns ? pageYOffset : document.body.scrollTop;
		ftlObj.y += (pY + startY - ftlObj.y)/8;
		}
		else{
		var pY = ns ? pageYOffset + innerHeight : document.body.scrollTop + document.body.clientHeight;
		ftlObj.y += (pY - startY - ftlObj.y)/8;
		}
		ftlObj.sP(ftlObj.x, ftlObj.y);
		setTimeout("stayTopLeft()", 10);
	}
	ftlObj = ml("divStayTopLeft");
	stayTopLeft();
}
JSFX_FloatTopDiv();
</script>
</body>
</html>

that's for the index page - and the problem is on all the pages that I created, but I think once we fix this one I should be able to fix the rest...

**Jas** · 03-06-2008, 05:17 PM

After a couple of shots at it, I think I've got it. Try this:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Portfolio Index</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body,td,th {
	font-size: 12pt;
	color: #000000;
}
body {
	background-color: #0099FF;
}
a {
	font-family: Papyrus;
	font-size: 12pt;
	color: #FF0000;
}
a:link {
	text-decoration: underline;
}
a:visited {
	text-decoration: underline;
	color: #9900FF;
}
a:hover {
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
	text-decoration: underline;
}
.style1 {font-size: 18pt}
-->
</style>

</head>

<body>

<div align="center" class="style1"><p>Welcome!</p></div>
<div align="center"><h4><p>&nbsp;My name is Alyssa Chvala, and this website is going to be my portfolio. Feel free to look around - I've done work in several different programs and media, including Photoshop, Flash, Illistrator, pencil, pen, pastel, paint. The Navigation bar should be to your left, and it's relatively easy to use. :)</p></h4></div>
<script>
if (!document.layers)
document.write('<div id="divStayTopLeft" style="position:absolute">')
</script>

<layer id="divStayTopLeft">

<!--EDIT BELOW CODE TO YOUR OWN MENU-->

<table border="1" width="175" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    
<td width="100%" bgcolor="#00AACC">
      
<p align="center"><b><font size="4">Navigation Menu</font></b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    
<td width="100%" bgcolor="#00FFFF">
      
<p align="center">*
<a href="Index.html">Home </a><br>
<a href="about me.html">About Me </a><br>
  *
    <a href="photoshop.html">Photoshop</a><br>
  *
    <a href="illistrator.html">Illistrator </a><br>
  *
    <a href="flash.html">Flash</a><br>
  *
  <a href="noncomputerwork.html">Non- Computer Work </a></td>
  
</tr>
</table>
<!--END OF EDIT-->

</layer>



<script type="text/javascript">

/*
Floating Menu script-  Roy Whittle (http://www.javascript-fx.com/)
Script featured on/available at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
This notice must stay intact for use
*/

//Enter "frombottom" or "fromtop"
var verticalpos="frombottom"

if (!document.layers)
document.write('</div>')

function JSFX_FloatTopDiv()
{
	var startX = 3,
	startY = 150;
	var ns = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") != -1);
	var d = document;
	function ml(id)
	{
		var el=d.getElementById?d.getElementById(id):d.all?d.all[id]:d.layers[id];
		if(d.layers)el.style=el;
		el.sP=function(x,y){this.style.left=x;this.style.top=y;};
		el.x = startX;
		if (verticalpos=="fromtop")
		el.y = startY;
		else{
		el.y = ns ? pageYOffset + innerHeight : document.body.scrollTop + document.body.clientHeight;
		el.y -= startY;
		}
		return el;
	}
	window.stayTopLeft=function()
	{
		if (verticalpos=="fromtop"){
		var pY = ns ? pageYOffset : document.body.scrollTop;
		ftlObj.y += (pY + startY - ftlObj.y)/8;
		}
		else{
		var pY = ns ? pageYOffset + innerHeight : document.body.scrollTop + document.body.clientHeight;
		ftlObj.y += (pY - startY - ftlObj.y -35)/8;
		}
		ftlObj.sP(ftlObj.x, ftlObj.y);
		setTimeout("stayTopLeft()", 10);
	}
	ftlObj = ml("divStayTopLeft");
	stayTopLeft();
}
JSFX_FloatTopDiv();
</script>
</body>
</html>

The problem was that the menu was bigger then it was suppose to be, so it was down past the bottom edge of the screen. I compensated with a -35 (in red).

My browser (Fire Fox on Linux) also had a problem with the doc type, but that may just be me. Anyway, I had to take it out for testing, so that's why it's missing. That may also have been a problem.

**Twilightrose917** · 03-06-2008, 05:26 PM

it works now! thank you SO much. But now... what part of the code do i need to replace in the other pages to make it work there? or do i just need to change that one bit to -35?

**Jas** · 03-06-2008, 05:29 PM

Your welcome

Add the -35, and possibly take out the doc type if it still doesn't work. I know you shouldn't do that, but I couldn't get it to work with it. I looked at the DynamicDrive doc type in the example for guidance, and they didn't have one! lol

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