A New Wrinkle
One thing you may have noticed in my above post is that the page (Buescher) only has one page full of pics -- I'm not talking subgalleries. The three ablums on that one page are Aristocrat, True-Tone and 400 Series. What happens if you have TWO pages full of pics, like on my
Conn page? If your answer was that something breaks, you would be correct.
I've obviously fixed it, though.
For some reason, if you have two or more pages of pics, the menu only drops down only TWO items. So, in this example, if you clicked on "More Information," you'd only see "The Conn Loyalist" and "NAMM.org (Interviews)." Even if I just copied and pasted the known-working code on my Buescher page, I'd still see only two menu items.
So, considering I'm now convinced that "consistency" isn't something to expect with Gallery 3 modifications, I tried a couple other makes that I had two pages of to see if I could get the known working code working there. It actually took me only one try:
my Kohlert page.
I just pasted my code before the text I already had on the Kohlert page and ... everything magically worked. Logical leap:
obviously having a line of regular text after my lines of code seems to be making something work. I tested this by changing the text on the Kohlert page to " " -- the HTML code for a backspace -- and everything still worked. My assumption is that either the code for Gallery 3 or the theme I'm using has a tag that's not properly closed.
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I also two more "problems" when I was playing around with the code:
First, one of my menu items was getting chopped off. If you clicked, "Other Picture Galleries," "Saxophone.org Factory Pics" was chopped down to "Saxophone.org Factory." I checked my rather basic CSS. Sure enough, there was a width value, but for *just* the submenu options (e.g. "Saxophone.org Factory Pics"). Because there wasn't a "width" setting for the menu as a whole, it's "fluid": he menu width is only as wide as the menu name (i.e. not wider than "Other Picture Galleries"). Easy fix: add another WIDTH assignment for the menu name ... or just use our friend " " on the menu name until it's wide enough.
Second, my menus didn't drop down far enough to see all the items. Again, I go to the CSS and find that it does not have a HEIGHT assignment for the menu. Because if I made a static height for all menus, it'd look a little stupid, I again added a couple of " " -- which Gallery 3 interprets as <p> </p> if they're on separate lines -- and you can see the awesomeness that resulted.