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Re: Show menu items when hovering over top menu 9 months, 2 weeks ago #968

I think all's fair game for the frontend templates. Beyond the quality and consistency of JUI and Bootstrap markup, I don't expect nearly as strict standards and user interactions from template to template as we're trying to deliver from the admin template. The admin is more of a GUI in which I much prefer click to open. In frontend site's, all different flavors of menus, megamenus, clicks, hovers, etc, is all commonplace and it's not the JUX's place to limit that
-Kyle Ledbetter
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Re: Show menu items when hovering over top menu 9 months, 2 weeks ago #970

My comment was not about that Joomla should control the frontend.
It was to underline how people expect a menu to work on the web.

Something interesting I just realized with menus of programs (on Windows):
Click to open the submenu, but then you can simply hover to the next main menu item and it shows that submenu.
So click to initiate, then hover all you want.
Works like that too on bookmark toolbars in the browsers...
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Re: Show menu items when hovering over top menu 9 months, 2 weeks ago #971

Right, and I think there's a big difference between a website menu and a graphical user interface navigation.

Interesting about the first click to initiate...
-Kyle Ledbetter
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Re: Show menu items when hovering over top menu 9 months, 2 weeks ago #972

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Wow. Never did realise the click-to-initiate action. It becomes so second nature that I take it for granted. Thanks for pointing that out, NoNumber.

It is a good idea to separate a website menu from a GUI.
But from the looks of it, it looks just like a website menu so hover action is just what the user will expect from it.

May I suggest that since Joomla 3.0 is using Bootstrap, why not go all the way?
How about making the top menu bar a row of 'Button Dropdown menus'?
(twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html#buttonDropdowns)

Buttons make me click. It's natural.
Last Edit: 9 months, 2 weeks ago by mr9sky.
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Re: Show menu items when hovering over top menu 9 months, 2 weeks ago #973

We'll most probably add the click-then-hover action on the admin menu. This gives best of both worlds.
github.com/Joomla3-Admin-template/joomla-cms/pull/103
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Re: Show menu items when hovering over top menu 9 months, 2 weeks ago #974

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mr9sky Yes, already there is just color highlight, This is terrible UX.

Just a little bit css and it will look like should be.
Last Edit: 9 months, 2 weeks ago by Randal.
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Re: Show menu items when hovering over top menu 1 month, 3 weeks ago #1497

You could allways a prebuilt jQuery plugin menu instead, these a list of some good ones at TypeError

Just make sure you use jQuery in no conflict mode by using $.noConflict(); then surround all the plugins code within

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
// Code that uses jQuery's $ can follow here.
});
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