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[shifts]

Hey all,

Thought I'd ask the people of the good ship Neowin to see if they can help. I've purchased a Wordpress theme and was using it fine until I decided to use drop down menus.

They are there but the background on the menu when it drops down isn't. I've tried a few tools to see what css selector it might be.

Can anyone out there lend a hand. It's the main drop down menu at essentialmac.co.uk.

Thanks in advance

[the better twin]

ul.sub-menu{
   background: *** whatever bg color/img you want ***;
}

[shifts]

Thanks for the code, ill get it added shortly.

Right now I'm wondering why the smallest file on my server, selection.php which only contains this ..

a {
 color:#31ABC5;
}
a:hover {
 color:#111111;
}
Is causing a 15 second wait time.

Edited by shifts, 10 September 2012 - 14:14.

[myuniquenickname]

shifts, on 10 September 2012 - 13:55, said:

Thanks for the code, ill get it added shortly.

Right now I'm wondering why the smallest file on my server, selection.php which only contains this ..

a {
color:#31ABC5;
}
a:hover {
color:#111111;
}
Is causing a 15 second wait time.

This isn't PHP, perhaps that's causing issues. Are you sure this shouldn't end with .css? I get a 1.036s waiting time on the file though, not 15s.

This is a strange file as well... wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/css/gdsr.css.php, which only contains css. Dunno, I'm only using Dragonfly and viewing the front page files list.

[shifts]

It was an interesting one. I added a cname with my domain name register to add just essentialmac without the WWW and suddenly things started loading like I thought they would do.

Yup, I know it's not PHP so I contacted the developer of the wordpress theme but had no reply so I've no idea what css is inside a php file.

Im staring to think that W3 Total Cache may be a touch advanced for my actual needs and might shift to something simpler.

I'm struggling to find out where to add that css if anyone can shine a light.

[Medfordite]

I personally use Firefox with Firebug installed, using both of those together, it really makes things smoother when trying to find the correct CSS file. Caching while developing though is a big PITA. Disable the cache in Cloudflare too (I looked at your DNS records), until you are ready to deploy. It will save you time in the long run.

Might want to look for the css in this file though:

http://www.essential...g/css/style.css

[myuniquenickname]

It isn't in a separate CSS file but in a PHP file that adds a style to the li marked in red.

<div id="menu">
  <ul id="menu-deals-and-discounts-codes" class="menu sf-js-enabled sf-shadow">
	<li id="menu-item-3454" class="menu-item menu-item-type-taxonomy menu-item-object-category menu-item-3454">
	  <a href="http://www.essentialmac.co.uk/category/deals-offers/">Deals &amp; Offers</a>
	</li>
	<li id="menu-item-3524" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-3524">
	  <a href="http://www.essentialmac.co.uk/tag/reviewed/" class="sf-with-ul">
		Reviewed
		<span class="sf-sub-indicator"> »</span>
	  </a>
	  <ul class="sub-menu" style="float: none; width: 12em; display: none; visibility: hidden">
		<li id="menu-item-3525" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-3525" style="float: left; width: 100%; white-space: normal">
		  <a href="http://www.essentialmac.co.uk/tag/iphone-accessories/" style="float: none; width: auto; padding-left: 15px;">iPhone Bits</a>
		</li>
		<li id="menu-item-3523" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-3523" style="float: left; width: 100%; white-space: normal">
		  <a href="http://www.essentialmac.co.uk/tag/ipad-accessories/" style="float: none; width: auto; padding-left: 15px">iPad Accessories</a>
		</li>
	  </ul>
	</li>
  </ul>
</div>

style="float: none; width: auto; padding-left: 15px"

You can add a background css property to the style in the PHP file, like
style="float: none; width: auto; padding-left: 15px; background:#ce0;"

Try "Search in files" for float: none; width: auto; padding-left using Notepad++

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