[thelist] Suckerfish tabs disappearing off screen

[Will]

In general, I'd say fixing this with js is going to be *fraught with peril*.
egad. If it were up to me (and it rarely is) the best solution would be to
adjust the design so that list items could wrap or some clever visual
accomodation.

A rough sketch of a js solution might look like this (not tried)
get the window width
get the top left position of clicked element
get the width of your subnav
subtract click position from window width
if the available width is less than the width of your subnav, change a class
on your subnav to position it right

jQuery dimensions plugin should make this a snap.   Of course, I'm probably
forgetting 40 things to make this actually work... :)

There are probably better ways to do this with js but that's how I'd go at
it if I had to resort to js.

Will


On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Chris Price <chris.price at choctaw.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi
>
> Has anyone implemented Suckerfish drop downs and overcome the problem of
> menu items extending beyond the browser window.
>
> I have a horizontal menu system where the submenues extend to the right
> which is OK up to the far right items. I am thinking there is a
> javascript solution could force the tabs to extend left when there is no
> room on the right - probably a combination of browser width, mouse
> position and tab width.
>
> I've tried searching for the solution but I'm not finding what I'm
> looking for and I need a one fairly quickly.
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