Hey Class,
So one problem we identified in the last class was getting our sub-menu to stay active when we hover over the links – some of you noticed that if we exit the hover-state of the button in our primary navigation, the sub-nav disappears. Well, if we coded this correctly, it shouldn’t have that problem:
.mainNav li:hover ul {
}
If it still doesn’t work, there’s a fix, of course:
http://www.craigmdennis.com/articles/pure-css-drop-down-menu-with-persistent-active-state
It should be noted that if you having spacing between the buttons of your sub-nav, that’ll also screw up the hover effect. So keep them close together! Padding is fine, but margins cause problems.
On Wednesday, we’ll continue to explore navs, including one-page scrolling and some really basic parallax stuff. A rubric for the nav assignment is forthcoming.