sidebar menu appears with every click on the main menu item before it disappears

Behee Trimble

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Please help me to detect this problem: sidebar menu appears with every click on the main menu item.

I inherited a Django app and I am trying to learn it. However, since this is a real app and in use I do not have much time to investigate in details. I really appreciate your help. I include only the few templates and I am hoping some one is experienced enough to see the problem by looking at these few templates.

All the other templates are including the base.html, see below please:

base.html

========

<!DOCTYPE html>

{% load add_utility %}

<head>

<title>Quo - {% block title %}{% endblock %}</title>

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})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

ga('create', 'UA-55718101-1', 'auto');

ga('send', 'pageview');

</script>

</head>

<body>

</li>

</ul>

</li>

</li>

</ul>

<a href="/yourfeed/" class="button radius">Followed Topics</a>

</li>

</div>

{% csrf_token %}

</div>

</form>

</div>

</li>

</li>

</ul>

</section>

</nav>

</div>

{% block quicknav %}{% endblock %}

{% get_visible_departments user as deps %}

{% for dep in deps %}

{% endfor %}

</ul>

{% block addstuff %}{% endblock %}

<li><a href="logout"><i class="fa logout fa-lg"></i>Logout</a></li>

</ul>

</nav>

{% block content %}{% endblock %}

$(document).ready(function() {

$('.menu-link').bigSlide();

});

</script>

$(document).foundation();

</script>

</body>

</html>

index_zero.html

============

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block title %}

Home

{% endblock %}

{% block quicknav %}

<li><label>Quick Nav<i class="fa fa-times right menu-link"></i></label></li>

</ul>

</ul>

{% endblock %}

{% block content %}

{% for obj in objects %}

<a href="{{ obj.get_absolute_url }}"><i class="fa"></i>{{ obj.title }}

</a>

</dl>

{% endfor %}

</div>

{% endblock %}

=================

I myself am trying to cache the images to make sure is not the bad performance involved. Other than that I am suspicious to the ajax calls but it is hard for me to touch it without breaking the app!!

Thanks very much for you help.

Behee Trimble

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Mar 29, 2015, 11:13:13 AM3/29/15

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Any body out there to give me a clue about my problem? Please?

Mike Dewhirst

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Mar 29, 2015, 6:16:04 PM3/29/15

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On 30/03/2015 2:13 AM, Behee Trimble wrote:
> Any body out there to give me a clue about my problem? Please?
>
>
> On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 7:08:23 PM UTC-4, Behee Trimble wrote:
>
> Please help me to detect this problem: sidebar menu appears with
> every click on the main menu item.
>
> I inherited a Django app and I am trying to learn it. However, since
> this is a real app and in use I do not have much time to investigate
> in details. I really appreciate your help. I include only the few
> templates and I am hoping some one is experienced enough to see the
> problem by looking at these few templates.

I am not experienced enough to help but I can feel your sense of
frustration. Trying to learn Django by inspecting an existing project is
a daunting task. This is what I think you should do:

a. Copy the entire project to your local dev machine [1]

b. Chop out parts and put them back until you identify the sidebar menu.

c. Search for the code involved and try to see why it is being called
multiple times.

[1] Install the same version of Django on your local machine. To get
that info: on the production machine get a console and launch python.
Then at the prompt ...

>>>import django
>>>django.get_version()

Getting the project across, ought to be easy. Work through (at least)
the installation parts of the documentation/tutorial.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ (use the same version as in
production rather than 1.7)

Using the Django developer's webserver, you can insert print statements
wherever you like in the code and see the results. It also identifies
syntax errors immediately and displays error tracebacks.

Enjoy

Mike

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Behee Trimble

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Thanks very much for your reply. You are right - it is much easier if I had to write the code myself.

I am kind of doing the same and I see the repetition but when I try to eliminate the duplicates the program breaks!!

Thanks again

Beheen

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Behee Trimble

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Mar 30, 2015, 1:09:47 PM3/30/15

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To Whom It May be Helpful:

This program was using bigSlide.js library that works like a charm and good to inject sidebar menu.

The original developer forgot to apply the css lines. Below are the relevant parts:

html file:

...

{% block quicknav %}{% endblock %}

{% get_visible_departments user as deps %}

{% for dep in deps %}

{% endfor %}

</ul>

{% block addstuff %}{% endblock %}

<li><a href="logout"><i class="fa logout fa-lg"></i>Logout</a></li>

</ul>

</nav>

....

At the end of html file - the script section:

$(document).ready(function() {

$('.menu-link').bigSlide();

});

</script>

css file:

.offnav {

background: #fff;

position: fixed;

left: -15.625em; /*left or right and the width of your navigation panel*/

width: 15.625em; /*should match the above value*/

...

}

Thanks

Beheen

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