Superfish Menu - Display subitems left if there is not enough screenspace on the right

Question

I have 3 level menu. I want the sub menus to be open in left direction instead of right when there is not enough screenspace to show them.

Please take a look at the screenshot to get the exact idea.

I want to use the onBeforeShow() function of superfish menu to fix this, but I am not able to make it work as desired.

Here's my code so far:

$("ul.sf-menu").superfish({
    delay: 1000,
    speed: 'fast',
    disableHI: true,
    onBeforeShow: function()
    {
      thisWidth = $(this).width();
      if  ( thisWidth > 0 ) 
      {
        thisParent = this.parent();
        parentLeft = thisParent.offset().left;
        parentWidth = this.parent().width();
        parentRight = parentWidth + parentLeft ;

        mainLeft =  document
          .getElementsByClassName('sf-menu')[0].offsetLeft;

        mainRight = document
          .getElementsByClassName('sf-menu')[0].offsetWidth;

        if  ( ( thisWidth + parentLeft ) < ( mainLeft + mainRight ) )   
        {
          if  ( thisWidth > ( parentLeft + parentHeight ) ) 
          {
            $(this).css('left', - (parentLeft - mainLeft));
          } 
          else 
          {
            // open left
            $(this).css('left', - (thisWidth - parentWidth));
          }
        }
      }
    }
});

Answer 1

I am currently using this code to solve the problem on a site I work on:

onBeforeShow: function() {
   if($(this).parents("ul").length > 1){
      var w = $(window).width();  
      var ul_offset = $(this).parents("ul").offset();
      var ul_width = $(this).parents("ul").outerWidth();

      // Shouldn't be necessary, but just doing the straight math
      // on dimensions can still allow the menu to float off screen
      // by a little bit.
      ul_width = ul_width + 50;

      if((ul_offset.left+ul_width > w-(ul_width/2)) && (ul_offset.left-ul_width > 0)) {
         $(this).addClass('too_narrow_fix');
      }
      else {
         $(this).removeClass('too_narrow_fix');
      }
   };
}

Here's the CSS it applies:

.too_narrow_fix {
   left: -14.5em !important;
   top: .5em  !important;
}

Answer 2

Though it is very old post, I am sharing a solution which worked for me as it may help someone and save time. I am facing this issue with latest jquery superfish menu 1.7.9. I found another jquery plugin 'Supposition' in that forum to solve this issue.

(function($) { //create closure so we can safely use $ as alias for jQuery

  $(document).ready(function() {

    // initialise plugin
    var example = $('#example').superfish({
      //add options here if required                    
    }).supposition();

  });

})(jQuery);

jsfiddle link1 jsfiddle link2

Answer 3

a quick fix using CSS.

ul.genesis-nav-menu li.menu-item:last-child .sub-menu {
    right: 0;
}