sub-menus

[Turner]

Hi there,
I was wondering what I should look for to make sub-menus appear at
the moment you click a link or image. The menu should appear on top of
the document.

I'd need to know what are the technical details involved, is this
java-script, java, just html, layers? And what is the compatibility
status of that technique; ie. how does it display in Netscape, Mozilla,
Explorer, Safari, etc...

Thanks for the tip! Oh btw, I hope this is the right place to ask
such question?

Thanks!
Turner

[Tim]

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 06:45:34 -0700, Turner sent:

I was wondering what I should look for to make sub-menus appear at the
moment you click a link or image. The menu should appear on top of the
document.

....... And what is the compatibility status of that technique; ie. how
does it display in Netscape, Mozilla, Explorer, Safari, etc...

I find such things generally very poor, in various browsers. Typically,
the sub-menu pops up nowhere near the mouse, and as soon as you try and
mouse over to it, it disappears. The next common fault is that the menu
contents don't fit into the space that the author thought it would (so you
see things like half a line of text, with the bottom chopped off).

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[Turner]

In other words, you suggest reloading the page with the new menu with
the sub-options displayed in plain html (doing so with php to make the
process automated will be easy).

That's also what I personnally will tend to do, but I may have clients
that request the layered (or DIVed) menus.

Thanks for your input!
Turner

[Leonard Blaisdell]

In article <11**********************@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups .com>,
"Turner" <tu****@xhz.ca> wrote:

That's also what I personnally will tend to do, but I may have clients
that request the layered (or DIVed) menus.

Use your best methods of dissuation :-)

leo

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[Dr.Tube]

Hi Turner,

I was wondering what I should look for to make sub-menus appear at
the moment you click a link or image. The menu should appear on top of the document.
I'd need to know what are the technical details involved, is this
java-script, java, just html, layers? And what is the compatibility
status of that technique; ie. how does it display in Netscape, Mozilla, Explorer, Safari, etc...

Have a look here:
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/index.htm
and:
http://www.seoconsultants.com/css/menus/horizontal/
Those were good starting points for me.

Once you get the hang of it using CSS-only techniques, it's pretty
basic.
The only real complex part is getting IE to handle hovers on non
anchor elements. See:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/csshover.html
for more details on this.

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