Replicant 2 features an array of elegant, professional and exclusive menu systems. Here you can read an overview of the Replicant 2 menu configuration options.

Selecting your Menu Style

Replicant 2 allows you to choose from 3 menu options:

• RokMooMenu - The advanced menu system based on the ever popular Suckerfish menu style, featuring mootools powered transitions and effects.
• Suckerfish - The versatile dropdown menu is an option in combination with RokMooMenu to minimize library conflicts and improve site performance.
• SplitMenu - Then venerable SplitMenu is a solid choice for navigation. It works by rendering the top-level menu options horizontally, and the submenu/child items are rendered in a module on the side.

You can designate which menu type you want to use on your site with a single control in the template manager configuration.

The Powerful & Popular RokMooMenu

• Hover support for IE6 using the sfHover javascript class just like in Suckerfish.
• Fully degradable to standard SuckerFish menu if javascript is not supported.
• Configurable mouse-out delay to allow for accidental mousing out of the menu.
• Completely customizable animation effects using MooTools transitions. Can be configured in X and/or Y directions.
• Support for fade-in transparency
• Experimental support for IE6 z-index bug using the iFrame hack.

<script type="text/javascript">
window.addEvent('domready', function() {
	new Rokmoomenu($E('ul.menutop '), {
		bgiframe: false,
		delay: 500,
		animate: {
			props: ['height', 'opacity'],
			opts: {
				duration: 400,
				transition: Fx.Transitions.Sine.easeInOut
			}
		},
		bg: {
			enabled: true,
			overEffect: {
				duration: 100,
				transition: Fx.Transitions.Expo.easeOut
			},
			outEffect: {
				duration: 800,
				transition: Fx.Transitions.Sine.easeIn
			}
		},
		submenus: {
			enabled: true,
			overEffect: {
				duration: 50,
				transition: Fx.Transitions.Expo.easeOut
			},
			outEffect: {
				duration: 600,
				transition: Fx.Transitions.Sine.easeIn
			},
			offsets: {
				top: 5,
				right: 15,
				bottom: 5,
				left: 5
			}
		}
	});
});
</script>

Menu Settings

• Bgiframe: Can be true or false. Only turn on if you are having problems with IE and z-index. This feature is experimental.
• Delay: Defaults to 500ms. This is the how long you can mouse off the menu before it vanishes.
• Props: These are the properties that will be applied to the menu. Can be any combination of opacity, width, height. The two properties, width and height are affected by the transition defined in opts.
• Duration: The time in ms the animation will run for.
• Transitions: Any of the available MooTools transitions. See below for more details.
  For example, "Bounce.easeIn or Bounce.easeOut or Bounce.easeInOut" produce a bouncing effect.
• BG: This is an added effect with Moomenu that allows a background fade (whether solid colour or image) to appear on hover of the first level Moomenu items so you will have a transition for the first level background and reveal of the second level dropdowns. With this setting, you can decide whether this feature is active as well as define the duration / transition of the moveover and mouseout state (i.e. when you hover over the menu, then move your cursor away).
• Submenu: Yet another feature in the new RokMoomenu. This appears add a javascript based hover on the submenu items of Moomenu. You can control all the necessary parts f the javascript effect form transition to duration as well as the hover state.

Creating the dropdown menu items

Step 1 - Navigation

Step 2 - The Menu Manager

Step 3 - Assigning a Parent Item