[sleepingfish]

Between my genius boss and genius clients an idea has been formed to float a menu (dynamic) that could be of various heights, from the bottom of a page.

Any ideas?

At the moment I'm thinking absolute positioned with bottom: 5px or summat, anyone?

[nakedintruder]

it's have to be yeh I suppose, otherwise it'd go below the fold when there's too much content.

[cam]

absolute is the way to go. not sure what you mean 'floated' from the bottom of a page though.

you mean like those hideous 'geocities'-esque menus that follows you up & down the page?

[sleepingfish]

Originally Posted by i_am_cam

absolute is the way to go. not sure what you mean 'floated' from the bottom of a page though.

So that if the items in the list are 10px high, and there are 7 items, then the list will start from the bottom of the page (or the DIV that it is in) and go up 70 pixels.
But if there are only 3 items, the list will still start from the bottom of the page but it will be 30 pixels in height.

Originally Posted by i_am_cam

you mean like those hideous 'geocities'-esque menus that follows you up & down the page?

Not yet, no one mention that to my boss or the clients and we should be ok.

[Brown]

good luck. you should look forward to re-building it once your client realises that no-one could find the navigation b'cos it was hidden at the bottom of the page.

[nakedintruder]

Isn't there something like position:fixed you can use? which is relative to the window, and not the page? If they insist on having this you could use that.

[sleepingfish]

Originally Posted by Brown

good luck. you should look forward to re-building it once your client realises that no-one could find the navigation b'cos it was hidden at the bottom of the page.

Thanks, I have already tried explaining this, although I get the feeling my boss failed miserably to explain it successfully to the clients.

Originally Posted by nakedintruder

Isn't there something like position:fixed you can use? which is relative to the window, and not the page? If they insist on having this you could use that.

Cheers, although it will be positioned to the page and not the browser window.

Fucking Mondays.

[nakedintruder]

Originally Posted by sleepingfish

Cheers, although it will be positioned to the page and not the browser window.

If it's going to be last in the flow then there's no need to abs.position it then I think, as far as I can tell from what they're after. Why do they want that though? You couldn't do anything worse on a site that hide the navigation. haha, it's like building a car and hiding the steering wheel under the back seats.

[Stickman]

So you're after a footer that doesn't have a fixed height?

[sleepingfish]

kind of yes (it will be over to the bottom right of the page, above the actual footer).

[Brown]

i can't think of any better place to hide it.

[sleepingfish]

I know. It sucks. Its not the main nav, but its still a ridiculous place to put it.

[Stickman]

Originally Posted by sleepingfish

kind of yes (it will be over to the bottom right of the page, above the actual footer).

In that case, I would build it into the footer. Let's not worry about semantics, it already sounds fucked.

You just need to play with a list that sits on top of the footer content (float: right). Wrap all this in whatever footer code you're using. If you see what I mean...

[sleepingfish]

Originally Posted by Brown

i can't think of any better place to hide it.

Me neither.

Originally Posted by Stickman

In that case, I would build it into the footer. Let's not worry about semantics, it already sounds fucked.

You just need to play with a list that sits on top of the footer content (float: right). Wrap all this in whatever footer code you're using. If you see what I mean...

Cheers Mr Sticky (and everyone else),
Getting somewhere now through footer-contained, absolute positioning.