Edit The Ning Bar

[Enigma]

Is there any way to do so?

[Phil McT]

Your options are pretty limited, as the source code is not included in the code you get access to. About the most you do is hide certain buttons and add others (both with JavaScript). The buttons you can add are limited to, say, navigating to other pages. You can't (to my knowledge) re-create the drop-down functions of the friends or message areas.

You should also be aware that the Ning bar is one of the areas that is slated to change in coming releases, as functions are moved out of the Ning bar and into the network proper (so it would become part of your source code).

[Enigma]

I wanted to know if you could you remove the username button, but keep the message and friend request button.

[Long John]

Is there any update on this?

I too would like to keep only the messaging functionality and friend request acceptance/request stuff but I can seem to find a css/display option that allows just these 2 functions. Is this possible? How?

Or do I have to wait until these are moved into the source code that we are given? If so when?

[Paul Annett]

Yes, there is a way to do this.

Go to Manage -> Appearance -> Advanced, and enter this CSS:

#xn_bar #xn_bar_menu ul li { display:none; }
#xn_bar #xn_bar_menu ul li#xn_messages,
#xn_bar #xn_bar_menu ul li#xn_friends { display:inline; }

The first line says hide all the list elements in the Ning Bar navigation.
The second and third lines say show the list elements called xn_messages and xn_friends.

If you change the order of this code, it won't work. If Ning change the HTML markup of the Ning bar it won't work.

Hope that helps!

[Paul Annett]

I've actually been working on making the Ning bar completely invisible, so logged out users see nothing and logged in users just see this:

[PRSSA]

Yeah how do you make the Ning Bar dissappear when the user is logged out?

Furthermore, can I add the Ning Bar to an external website, with that same functionality? if not, can I add it as it is to another website?

[Jorge Grullon]

When you have more information, let us now! Thanks!

Paul Annett said:

I've actually been working on making the Ning bar completely invisible, so logged out users see nothing and logged in users just see this: