Hi I'm struggling with a footer menu on www.swanseainbloom.co.uk

The main menu is a dropdown, and I don't know how to handle this in the footer.

I've tried zen-menu-horizontal in the module class suffix and it doesn't seem to work.

Btw, is there a list of class suffixes for different menu types anywhere?

Thanks

Ian

Hi Ian,

With the footer we've not really expected users to have dropdowns in the footer

Are you wanting to replicate the main menu?

Cheers
Paul

Hi Paul - I'm not sure how to handle it. Do I even need a footer menu?
Thanks
Ian

Hi Ian,

Depends on the business and the content you have

Normally the site needs privacy policy, terms, sitemap etc

Many sites have big footers which include menu links

What is the site you are working on? what do they do?

Cheers
Paul

Hi Paul - it's swanseainbloom.co.uk.

It's not a big issue really - normally I just put text links in the footer for the menu items and legal bits, but I got to thinking about putting a proper menu in there.

There is a footer menu in the template which I started to use, then got to thinking about the drop downs, then started thinking about the different zen menu configurations but couldn't see them listed anywhere.

I'm probably best off just sticking to my text links...

Thanks

Ian

Hi Ian,

I'd stick to having links in columns or horizontal menu without dropdowns

There are horizontal classes you can add to the menu - I'll just check what they are

If you add classes to Menu Class Suffix

zen-nav zen-center

That will center the menu

Another option to add separators is

zen-nav zen-nav-divider zen-center

Cheers
Paul

Hi Paul - thanks for this.

Is there a list of these anywhere, and what they do - for both horizontal and vertical?

And are drop-downs a no-no?

Ian

Hi Ian,

drop downs on a footer don't really happen on sites

If you have a lot of links I'd look at doing something like this member did

www.renby.co.uk/ or www.micronfog.com/

bambootheme.com/showcase/blankly/style/navigation

Most of these are supported across different buildr templates

You may need to remove zen-nav-pills on some templates

Cheers
Paul

Hi Paul - I'd given up on drop downs for the footer - I could see that wouldn't work

But I take it they're OK on the main menu bar?

I had a look at the site - it's as good a way as any, and I'll see how it works.

And thanks for the links to the zen menu codes - that's really useful.

Best wishes

Ian

I'll have a play...

Thanks again

Ian

no problem

Cheers
Paul

Drop downs are fine on main menus - no problem with that

One tip I would suggest if you need to have links in the footer that already exist in the main menu is to use the menu link type alias

Using the alias link type means you don't have duplicate links

Cheers
Paul

That makes sense. Currently they're simply links added to the text, not a proper menu.

I'll see what I can do.

One problem I did come across earlier when I was playing with the proper footer menu that if I tried to style it the changes affected the main menu as well - not surprisingly. I wasn't sure how to get round this...

Thanks

Ian

I'd always use a menu rather than text links - easier to manage and update

Only proviso is breaking the link the alias points to breaks it

With the styling make use of either an ID e.g. #footer or the menu class e.g first-level zen-menu-1159 zen-nav zen-nav-divider zen-center

and specifically .zen-menu-1159

Hi Paul - I understand the #footer, but not the zen-menu-1159 :-/