iFrame is visible (IE6)

ooops, meant to post a link to the other issue where this was raised, with some screenies and such. Please continue discussion of this over here though.

http://drupal.org/node/170840

I don't know the reason for that specific size - it was written before I took over maintaining the module. I assume it was done because we don't know the size of the menu ahead of time and it was guessed that that size would cover the space most menus would cover.

That said, in my local testing if I set the height and width to 20px each, even though that obviously doesn't cover the size of the expanded menu, it still works fine generally and over selects.

So basically I'm trying to figure out a) if we really need an iframe the same size as the menu and, if so, b) is there a better way for us to get that done using JS to "see" the size first and make the iframe exactly the size of the menu rather than randomly guessing something huge.

Here is a simple patch for changing the dimensions in the CSS. It is also easy enough to just edit the nice_menus.css. We can give this a shot first since it is the simplest approach - if it works. I'd like a bunch of people to test this (it only effects IE6 so other browsers shouldn't be effected at all) and make sure that the iframe is really invisible and that the menus still work when flying over a form select.

If this doesn't work, I'll look at JS sizing.

OK, I went ahead and committed this to HEAD and 5. There is a new release 5.x-1.1 with this and the performance patch rolled in.

Hm, well actually the iFrame was only added to make the menu work over form selects. It didn't exist prior to that issue being discovered so if that is another undesired effect we'll need to take a look. I do know that others have reported the scrolling down and losing the menu thing between items before and not just on IE.

Please do send me the info (use my contact tab) because I would like to look at it but I am starting travel for the holiday week so I may not get much done on this for a week or two.

protramper sent me access info for the site in question. It does disappear at certain points while rolling over. Some menu items are fine and then at a certain point it just blips off. I tried to do the same thing in Garland on my test site though and the menus worked just fine no matter how I rolled over them. This leads me to believe that this is a theme issue and not a bug in Nice Menus per se.

protramper can you change the theme to Garland on your site and see if the same problem happens? If not, we need to open a new issue to troubleshoot that and leave this issue be.

I'm going to close this issue since it doesn't seem to be the iFrame issue. We can open a new support issue if the problem persists in the custom theme.