Customising the JA Purity template/customisations/Enabling RTL in the horizontal menu

The original JA Purity template was provided from JoomlArt.com as a zip but the latest files have been installed along with Joomla. The relevant files, templateDetails.xml and ja-sosdmenu-rtl.css, can be found in templates/ja_purity. If you've been following the tutorial, you can download a tutorial version of the template that installs to the templates/my_japurity folder. Inside the folder of the template, the files are located as follows:

    <location of template
        index.php
        templateDetails.xml
        css/
            ja-sosdmenu-rtl.css

Note: The css file isn't installed as of version 1.5.11. You'll need to add this file to the site using the code below.

2 modifications need to be made to index.php

should be at top of your template index.php after the doc type

1 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" dir="<?php echo $this->direction; ?>" >

second modification to index.php

Modify index.php starting at line XXX

47 <!-- Added right to left check -->
48 <?php if ($this->countModules('hornav')): ?>
49  <?php if ($tmpTools->getParam('horNavType') == 'css'): ?>
50   <?php  if($this->direction == 'rtl') : ?>
51 <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $tmpTools->templateurl(); ?>/css/ja-sosdmenu-rtl.css" type="text/css" />
52   <?php else: ?>
53 <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $tmpTools->templateurl(); ?>/css/ja-sosdmenu.css" type="text/css" />
54   <?php endif; ?>
55 <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $tmpTools->templateurl(); ?>/js/ja.cssmenu.js"></script>
56  <?php else: ?>
57   <?php  if($this->direction == 'rtl') : ?>
58 <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $tmpTools->templateurl(); ?>/css/ja-sosdmenu-rtl.css" type="text/css" />
59   <?php else: ?>
60 <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $tmpTools->templateurl(); ?>/css/ja-sosdmenu.css" type="text/css" />
61   <?php endif; ?>
62 <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $tmpTools->templateurl(); ?>/js/ja.moomenu.js"></script>
63  <?php endif; ?>
64 <?php endif; ?>

Change the ja-sosdmenu-rtl.css file to look like the following:

  1 /* Son of Suckerfish Dropdowns
  2 ---------------------------------------------------------
  3 Originally developed by Patrick Griffiths and Dan Webb
  4 http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/
  5 ---------------------------------------------------------
  6 NOTE: After a deep research, we decide to divide this
  7 CSS into 2 parts. The first part will define the layout.
  8 The second part will define the visual look for this menu.
  9 ---------------------------------------------------------*/
 10 
 11 #ja-mainnav {
 12 	margin: 0; /* all lists */
 13 	padding: 0;
 14 	float: none;
 15 	text-align: right;
 16 	border-left: 1px solid #555555;
 17 }
 18 
 19 #ja-mainnav ul {
 20 	text-align: right;
 21 		margin: 0; /* all lists */
 22 	padding: 0;
 23 }
 24 
 25 #ja-mainnav li ul {
 26 	float: right;
 27 }
 28 #ja-mainnav li {
 29 	margin: 0; /* all list items */
 30 	padding: 0;
 31 	float: right;
 32 	display: block;
 33 	background: none;
 34 	cursor: pointer;
 35 	position: relative;
 36 }
 37 
 38 #ja-mainnav li ul {
 39 	width: 16.4em;
 40 	position: absolute; /* second-level lists */
 41 	z-index: 99;
 42 	top: -999em; /* using left instead of display to hide menus because display: none isn't read by screen readers */
 43 	height: auto;
 44 	w\idth: 15.9em;
 45 	right: 0;
 46 }
 47 
 48 #ja-mainnav li ul ul {
 49 	margin: -1.5em 0 0 14em; /* third-and-above-level lists */
 50 }
 51 
 52 #ja-mainnav li li {
 53 	padding: 0 1em 0 0;
 54 	margin: 0;
 55 	width: 14.9em;
 56 }
 57 
 58 #ja-mainnav ul a {
 59 	width: 14.8em;
 60 	w\idth: 10.8em;
 61 }
 62 
 63 #ja-mainnav li:hover ul ul, #ja-mainnav li:hover ul ul ul,
 64 #ja-mainnav li.sfhover ul ul, #ja-mainnav li.havechildsfhover ul ul, #ja-mainnav li.havechild-activesfhover ul ul, #ja-mainnav li.activesfhover ul ul,
 65 #ja-mainnav li.sfhover ul ul ul, #ja-mainnav li.havechildsfhover ul ul ul, #ja-mainnav li.havechild-activesfhover ul ul ul, #ja-mainnav li.activesfhover ul ul ul {
 66 	top: -999em;
 67 }
 68 
 69 /* This "unhides" the sub-menus (left: -999em is what hides them) */
 70 #ja-mainnav li:hover ul, #ja-mainnav li li:hover ul, #ja-mainnav li li li:hover ul,
 71 #ja-mainnav li.sfhover ul, #ja-mainnav li.havechildsfhover ul, #ja-mainnav li.havechild-activesfhover ul, #ja-mainnav li.activesfhover ul,
 72 #ja-mainnav li li.sfhover ul, #ja-mainnav li li.havesubchildsfhover ul, #ja-mainnav li li.havesubchild-activesfhover ul, #ja-mainnav li li.activesfhover ul,
 73 #ja-mainnav li li li.sfhover ul, #ja-mainnav li li li.havesubchildsfhover ul, #ja-mainnav li li li.havesubchild-activesfhover ul, #ja-mainnav li li li.activesfhover ul {
 74 	top: auto;
 75 }
 76 
 77 /* STYLING THE MENU
 78 -----------------------------------*/
 79 /* 1st level */
 80 #ja-mainnav li a {
 81 	margin: 0;
 82 	padding: 10px 20px;
 83 	border-right: 1px solid #555555;
 84 	border-left: 1px solid #333333;
 85 	display: block;
 86 	color: #CCCCCC;
 87 	font-weight: bold;
 88 	line-height: normal;
 89 	text-decoration: none;
 90 }
 91 
 92 #ja-mainnav li a:hover,
 93 #ja-mainnav li a:active,
 94 #ja-mainnav li a:focus {
 95 	background: url(../../images/arrow2.png) no-repeat bottom center #555555;
 96 	color: #FFFFFF;
 97 }
 98 
 99 #ja-mainnav li {
100 	margin: 0;
101 }
102 
103 #ja-mainnav li:hover,
104 #ja-mainnav li.sfhover,
105 #ja-mainnav li.havechildsfhover,
106 #ja-mainnav li.havechild-activesfhover {
107 	background: url(../../images/arrow2.png) no-repeat bottom center #555555;
108 	color: #FFFFFF;
109 }
110 
111 #ja-mainnav li a.active,
112 #ja-mainnav li a.active:hover,
113 #ja-mainnav li a.active:active,
114 #ja-mainnav li a.active:focus {
115 	background: url(../../images/arrow2.png) no-repeat bottom center #333333;
116 	color: #FFFFFF;
117 }
118 
119 /* 2nd level and above */
120 #ja-mainnav li ul {
121 	border: 1px solid #555555;
122 	background: url(../../images/opaque.png);
123 }
124 
125 #ja-mainnav li ul li {
126 	border-top: 1px solid #777777;
127 	border-bottom: 1px solid #444444;
128 	background: none;
129 }
130 
131 #ja-mainnav li ul a {
132 	border-left: none;
133 	margin: 0;
134 	padding: 7px 10px;
135 	background: none;
136 	color: #CCCCCC;
137 	font-weight: normal;
138 	line-height: normal;
139 	text-transform: none;
140 }
141 
142 #ja-mainnav li.havesubchild,
143 #ja-mainnav li.havesubchild-active {
144 	background: url(../../images/bullet2.gif) no-repeat 94% 50%;
145 }
146 
147 #ja-mainnav li ul a:hover,
148 #ja-mainnav li ul a:active,
149 #ja-mainnav li ul a:focus,
150 #ja-mainnav ul li:hover,
151 #ja-mainnav ul li.sfhover,
152 #ja-mainnav ul li.havesubchildsfhover,
153 #ja-mainnav ul li.havesubchild-activesfhover,
154 #ja-mainnav ul ul li:hover,
155 #ja-mainnav ul ul li.sfhover,
156 #ja-mainnav ul ul li.havesubchildsfhover,
157 #ja-mainnav ul ul li.havesubchild-activesfhover {
158 	background: #333333;
159 	color: #CCCCCC;
160 }
161 
162 #ja-mainnav ul li a.active,
163 #ja-mainnav ul li a.active:hover,
164 #ja-mainnav ul li a.active:active,
165 #ja-mainnav ul li a.active:focus {
166 	background: none !important;
167 	color: #FFFFFF;
168 	font-weight: bold;
169 }

Here's the result...

J1.5

Customising the JA Purity template/customisations/Enabling RTL in the horizontal menu

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