Menu Settings

The menu settings are accessed from the following panel within the Theme Configuration 1.6.x screen:

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Note: The image above shows the default settings and may differ slightly to what you see depending on the settings you have selected.

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By default, icons are shown for each item within the in-built view and edit menus. This makes the items in those menus easier to recognise and thus those menus are easier to use:

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There are two main scenarios where you might want to remove the icons from the in-built View and Edit menus:

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If you do not want icons to appear in the View and Edit menus, de-select this option which removes the icons as shown below:

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Note that the checkbox icons for the "Children" and "Comments" settings at the bottom of the view menu will always be displayed as shown above.

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By default, tooltips will be displayed when the mouse pointer hovers over a menu item:

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Note: Tooltip visualisation depends on your web browser and operating system settings and may differ from that shown above.

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For more information on setting tooltips, please see our tutorial on Anatomy of Creating Menus 2.x.

Display shadows behind pop-up menus

By default, shadows appear behind pop-up menus to giving them a 3D effect to make them look as if they are floating above the page:

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If you do not want shadows, de-select this option. Here's the same menu without shadows:

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Removing the shadows will also give a slight performance increase and is also ideal for "ultra-clean" website designs.

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If you have large menus that don't fit on the screen (specifically your web browser window), select this option and big menus will automatically become scrollable:

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The menu will only become scrollable if it does not fit in your web browser window, otherwise it will display as normal. This requires a couple of additional image files to be loaded from the server.