Tiles & Button problem

[email protected] Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:17:45 -0500
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.java.struts-menu.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Sorry for re-post but I hadn't subscribed when I posted before..

We are attempting to add Struts-menus to our application.
We have 2 problems that I can't seem to solve even thought I have looked
through the demo app. and the mail archives.
We are using Tiles to define our pages - the tile-def, base layout and menu
jsp are shown below.
The first problem is that the layout of our page has a vertical navigation
bar along the entire left side of the page.
We can't seem to get the Strut-Menu to appear in the correct location unless
we change the setting oCMenu.fromleft=138 to get it to start on the
rightmost edge of the navigation bar even though the BaseLayout.jsp has the
Menu.jsp inside a table that is located outside the left navigation bar.
When the menu is displayed it overlaps the data  displayed by the "title"
defined in the Tile-def .
Second problem is that a button is very close to the menu. When the menu is
dropped down it the submenu items fall behind the buttons and can not be
read or clicked.

The tile-def looks like this:
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC "-//Apache Software
Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 1.1//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/tiles-config_1_1.dtd">
	<tiles-definitions>
	  <definition name=".base"
path="/JSPs/Tiles/Layouts/BaseLayout.jsp">
	    <put name="title" type="string" value="Base Layout" />
	    <put name="menu" type="page" value="/JSPs/Tiles/Menu.jsp" />
	    <put name="message" type="page" value="/JSPs/Tiles/Message.jsp"
/>
	    <put name="content" />
	    <put name="leftnavbar" type="page"
value="/JSPs/Tiles/LeftNavigationBar.jsp" />
	  </definition>
	</tiles-definitions>

The BaseLayout.jsp looks like this:
	<%@ page language="java" session="true" %>
	<%@ taglib uri="struts/tiles" prefix="tiles" %>
	<%@ taglib uri="struts/html" prefix="html" %>
	<%@ taglib uri="struts/bean" prefix="bean" %>
	<html:html>
	<head>
	        <tiles:useAttribute name="title"/>
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<html:rewrite
page='/Graphics/banner.css' />"/>
		<title><tiles:get name="title"/></title>
	</head>
	<body style="marginwidth:0;marginheight:0">  
	  <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
	    <tr>
	      <td bgcolor="#CC0033" valign='top'>
	        <!-- Left navigation pane tile inserted here -->
	      	<tiles:get name="leftnavbar"/>
	      </td>
	      <td valign="top">
		<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
	          <!-- Menu tile -->
	          <tr bgcolor="#CC0033" style="height:10%">
	            <td>
	              <tiles:get name="menu" />
	            </td>
	          </tr>
	          <!-- Banner -->
	          <tr style="height:10%" >
	            <td class="bnr" align="center" valign="center">
	              <h1 class="bnr">
		        <tiles:get name="title"/>
	              </h1>
	            </td>
	          </tr>
	          <!-- Error Messages tile -->
	          <tr>
	            <td>
	              <tiles:get name="message" />
	            </td>
	          </tr>
	          <!-- Content tile-->
	          <tr>
	            <td>
	              <tiles:get name="content" />
	            </td>
	          </tr>
		</table>
	      </td>
	    </tr>
	  </table>  
	</body>
	</html:html>

The Menu.jsp looks like this:
	<%@ page language="java" session="true" %>
	<%@ taglib uri="struts/tiles" prefix="tiles" %>
	<%@ taglib uri="struts/html" prefix="html" %>
	<%@ taglib uri="struts/struts-menu" prefix="menu" %>
	<script type="text/javascript"
src="./JavaScripts/coolmenus3.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript"
src="./JavaScripts/coolmenu-config.js"></script>

	<menu:useMenuDisplayer name="CoolMenu"
bundle="org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE">
	    <menu:displayMenu name="AMenu"/>
	    <menu:displayMenu name="BMenu"/>
	    <menu:displayMenu name="CMenu"/>
	    <menu:displayMenu name="DMenu"/>
	</menu:useMenuDisplayer>

I'm sure we missed something simple but after looking around the example app
and the mail archives for a number of days we can not resolves these 2
problems. 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance



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