Dynamic Widths of Menu Items

I just purchased the developer version of the Menu and have been working with it for a couple of days now.  However, after much research I've found a limitation that may lead me to request a refund.  I want to clarify that this is not possible before I go through the formal channels...

The solpartmenu allows menu items of varying widths and will dynamically adjust the width of the menu and submenus depending on how much text I place there.   For example:

• Services
  • Schools
  • District Offices
  • Administrators
  • School Counselors & Psychologists

The solpartmenu will adjust the submenu so that the width is set for the longest item (the last one).  It is my understanding that the Snapsis Menu forces me to set the width of the submenus in order to render correctly.

Here's the problem - my customers set up the menus and submenus on their own - I have no idea how much text they will put in each menu item.  It could be 5 characters, it could be 50.  I need a menu that will allow both lengths and render correctly (without having the text overflow from the submenu box).  After a certain length, the text needs to wrap to the next line.

This is really a deal-breaker for me - I thought I had done enough research before I purchased, but obviously not.  However, I am open to the possibility that I may be mistaken and there is some way for the Snapsis Menu to do this.

Thanks for your help,

Mike

I agree that sticking with tableless menus is a good idea. 

You don't actually have to set a fixed width on the items, you could take that property out of the CSS, but IMO it looks kind of ugly to have them show up really small in some just because all the names are small, and really big in others.  If you want a minimum width, then you will need to leave it in.

If you set a fixed width the menu items will wrap as long as there is a whitespace character. So your example above should have been fine.

I just did some Googling and found this post for some other ideas:

http://csscreator.com/node/11146

In order to follow good design practice, I would only give them at most five or six levels of nesting unless they really demanded something more. 

I haven't had anyone come back and ask for more levels than the four that are available in the sample suckerfish template.