HTML - Looking For A Specific Dhtml Menu

Hey guys I am build ing a site and wanted to no the best solution for a drop down menu system.

I read somewhere that 10% of people of javascript disabled so they would not be able to use the javascript dropdown.

Is the best option to use dhtml for this so it will work in all browsers old and new.


Matt

I have this menu to rollover... and I cant seem to get the positioning correct. All I want to do is shift it to the right about 100px so that it doesnt cover up the rest of the menu items.

I will paste the CSS, javascript, and html code here... I have tried positioning it via CSS and thats not working :/ Is there a way to do it in the java code? Or if you want you can say how you would do it in CSS... maybe I just was doing it wrong.


CSS
Code:

#dropmenudiv{
position:absolute;
border:1px solid black;
border-bottom-width: 0;
font:normal 12px Verdana;
line-height:18px;
z-index:100;
}

#dropmenudiv a{
width: 100%;
display: block;
text-indent: 3px;
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
padding: 1px 0;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
}

#dropmenudiv a:hover{ 
color:#000000;
background-color: #cc0000;
}

JAVA
Code:

<script type="text/javascript">

var menu1=new Array()
menu1[0]='<a href="group.html">About (group)</a>'
menu1[1]='<a href="officers.html">Current Officers</a>'
menu1[2]='<a href="officerjoin.html">Become an Officer</a>'

var menu2=new Array()
menu2[0]='<a href="meetings.html">Meetings</a>'
menu2[1]='<a href="alumniday.html">Alumni Day</a>'
menu2[2]='<a href="industryday.html">Industry Day</a>'
		
var menuwidth='165px'
var menubgcolor='lightyellow' 
var disappeardelay=50  
var hidemenu_onclick="yes" 


var ie4=document.all
var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all

if (ie4||ns6)
document.write('<div id="dropmenudiv" style="visibility:hidden;width:'+menuwidth+';background-color:'+menubgcolor+'" onMouseover="clearhidemenu()" onMouseout="dynamichide(event)"></div>')

function getposOffset(what, offsettype){
var totaloffset=(offsettype=="left")? what.offsetLeft : what.offsetTop;
var parentEl=what.offsetParent;
while (parentEl!=null){
totaloffset=(offsettype=="left")? totaloffset+parentEl.offsetLeft : totaloffset+parentEl.offsetTop;
parentEl=parentEl.offsetParent;
}
return totaloffset;
}

function showhide(obj, e, visible, hidden, menuwidth){
if (ie4||ns6)
dropmenuobj.style.left=dropmenuobj.style.top="-500px"
if (menuwidth!=""){
dropmenuobj.widthobj=dropmenuobj.style
dropmenuobj.widthobj.width=menuwidth
}
if (e.type=="click" && obj.visibility==hidden || e.type=="mouseover")
obj.visibility=visible
else if (e.type=="click")
obj.visibility=hidden
}

function iecompattest(){
return (document.compatMode && document.compatMode!="BackCompat")? document.documentElement : document.body
}

function clearbrowseredge(obj, whichedge){
var edgeoffset=0
if (whichedge=="rightedge"){
var windowedge=ie4 && !window.opera? iecompattest().scrollLeft+iecompattest().clientWidth-15 : window.pageXOffset+window.innerWidth-15
dropmenuobj.contentmeasure=dropmenuobj.offsetWidth
if (windowedge-dropmenuobj.x < dropmenuobj.contentmeasure)
edgeoffset=dropmenuobj.contentmeasure-obj.offsetWidth
}
else{
var topedge=ie4 && !window.opera? iecompattest().scrollTop : window.pageYOffset
var windowedge=ie4 && !window.opera? iecompattest().scrollTop+iecompattest().clientHeight-15 : window.pageYOffset+window.innerHeight-18
dropmenuobj.contentmeasure=dropmenuobj.offsetHeight
if (windowedge-dropmenuobj.y < dropmenuobj.contentmeasure){ //move up?
edgeoffset=dropmenuobj.contentmeasure+obj.offsetHeight
if ((dropmenuobj.y-topedge)<dropmenuobj.contentmeasure) //up no good either?
edgeoffset=dropmenuobj.y+obj.offsetHeight-topedge
}
}
return edgeoffset
}

function populatemenu(what){
if (ie4||ns6)
dropmenuobj.innerHTML=what.join("")
}


function dropdownmenu(obj, e, menucontents, menuwidth){
if (window.event) event.cancelBubble=true
else if (e.stopPropagation) e.stopPropagation()
clearhidemenu()
dropmenuobj=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("dropmenudiv") : dropmenudiv
populatemenu(menucontents)

if (ie4||ns6){
showhide(dropmenuobj.style, e, "visible", "hidden", menuwidth)
dropmenuobj.x=getposOffset(obj, "left")
dropmenuobj.y=getposOffset(obj, "top")
dropmenuobj.style.left=dropmenuobj.x-clearbrowseredge(obj, "rightedge")+"px"
dropmenuobj.style.top=dropmenuobj.y-clearbrowseredge(obj, "bottomedge")+obj.offsetHeight+"px"
}

return clickreturnvalue()
}

function clickreturnvalue(){
if (ie4||ns6) return false
else return true
}

function contains_ns6(a, b) {
while (b.parentNode)
if ((b = b.parentNode) == a)
return true;
return false;
}

function dynamichide(e){
if (ie4&&!dropmenuobj.contains(e.toElement))
delayhidemenu()
else if (ns6&&e.currentTarget!= e.relatedTarget&& !contains_ns6(e.currentTarget, e.relatedTarget))
delayhidemenu()
}

function hidemenu(e){
if (typeof dropmenuobj!="undefined"){
if (ie4||ns6)
dropmenuobj.style.visibility="hidden"
}
}

function delayhidemenu(){
if (ie4||ns6)
delayhide=setTimeout("hidemenu()",disappeardelay)
}

function clearhidemenu(){
if (typeof delayhide!="undefined")
clearTimeout(delayhide)
}

if (hidemenu_onclick=="yes")
document.onclick=hidemenu

</script>

HTML
Code:

<li><a href="events.html" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu2, '150px')" onMouseout="delayhidemenu()">Events</a> </li>

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

HELLO ALL! I'm new here. Thank you in advanced.

I have a dthml menu on my main page. I would like to apply this same menu to all my other web pages with making one update. Currently I have the same code pasted and and script on all my product pages. If I have any changes to make to the menu I have to go and update all 20+ pages with the changes of the drop down menu.

on each of my product pages is there any way to reference this one dthml menu to use...I'm hoping this is making sense? I'm using dreamweaver CS3 and I used Sothink's DHTML MENU creator.

I'd like it that when I make a change to the dhtml menu it would apply to all my product pages.

Thank you

Chris

I need help creating 'specific' drop downs

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Hey guys, Im a first time web designer. Im in my highschool gr.11 computer science course were im learning html and Css.

I started creating my own individual site yesterday and i need help creating specific drop downs. This site is worth 30% of my final mark so help me.

This is what they look like, please visit the link
https://mycast.orb.com/orb/html/index.html

Once you enter that site, ignore the top navigation we it has 'home,', open application' e.t.c

I want you to look at the bottom content which have the headings "Feedback", "2.0 Beta Forums", "Help", and "Welcome to my casting Revolution". Hover over to the headings and on the left side of the heading, you will notice that little buttom that allows you to Expand/Collapse the menu.
Those are the specific drop downs/(whatever they are called) that i want to create.
Im not interested in the content inside of it, im just interested in making that type of expand/collapse menu.
Please explan to me how i can do this, how can i implement it into my site, do i need to create the design in photoshop?.Anything that will help me create this.

Your help will be highly appreciated.

Hello,

I'm looking for a script for a DHTML object. I don't know what the object is called nor do I have an example to link you to (sorry), but I'll do my best to describe it.

It consists of a row of objects, usually images (particularly thumbs made into hyperlinks), that you can scroll through (horizontally) simply by hovering the mouse cursor over the left or right sides. I'm open to variants of this (hovering, for example, isn't necessary; dragging will work as well).

Does anyone know what I'm talking about?