Is it possible to make a sub menu drop up, instead of drop down?...

[andrewsmilkshake 0]

I'm building a site which will have 8 child pages, each of these will have child pages of their own, i.e. grandchild pages...my concern is that the pages at the bottom end of the initial 'child' menu will very quickly start to drop down off the initial screen... i think this will start to look odd when there's a lot of space above the selected page.... does anyone know of a way to control the drop "up/outs" independently? many thanks

[Rob 547]

Andrew, The key here is not the direction of your menu, but of better menu management, use of navigation hierarchy and use of not just submenus, but of secondary navigation. If you have a parent page, we'll call Quotes for this example. And under quotes you have the quotations separated by continent like "American, European, Asian, African, Australian"; each set as a child page each of these could be a submenu item. Now, supposing under American, you wanted a page of quotes by Walt Whitman, another with Mark Twain and a third by Henry David Thoreau (can you tell I spent too much time in college). You could create a secondary menu called "American-quotes" and include each author's page in that menu. When you go to the page for American, you can add the secondary navigation for that page. When you view the Quotes > American page, you'll see the list of American quote authors in a horizontal row under the menu. BTW, you must have secondary nav turned on in your Posts and Pages settings. For each child you can have a secondary menu. Now going back to Whitman, if you were organizing his quotes by his books, you could create a page called "Leaves of Grass" and add all the quotes to that. You can then add a secondary menu called "Whitman-quotes" and include each book and have that appear on the Walt Whitman page by editing it and selecting that secondary menu. This way, you don't have to re-engineer the site or run the risk that a drop "UP" menu would bleed off the page. If, after all this you still want to go the upwards route, I'd suggest looking at http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/ to find a menu going "UP" and view source and style.css to find out how it's done. You'd add the code to Custom Code in CSS Rules.

[andrewsmilkshake 0]

Wow, thank you so much rangelone for taking the time to write such a comprehensive and useful message. You've given me a bit more food for thought. Huge appreciation. :-)