mouse on pop up the drop down menu

Anon

many of you saw this feature of some web sites.

move your mouse on one item of the title bar, then a drop down menu will pop up, then move your mouse on one of the item in that drop down menu, another sub drop down menu will pop up, and so on.

my designer use some software to do that. but when i read the codes, it gets me concerned that the codes is almost not possible to be modified. so if i have to modify some pages, i have to use this software to do it like when my designer created it in the first place, and this software has certain rules such as no same name folders even they are not in the same parent folders etc.

plus, the pop up menu feature is designed for explorer and netscape differently, i don't know if AOL will follow the netscape way or AOL has its own way. If AOL has its own way, well, this feature will not work, because it is only programmed for netscape and internet explorer.

in simple words, when use this software to create the pop up drop down menu, it forces me to use that software and force me to follow its stupid rules. and it also make it less universal for browsers.

i really cannot see the reason to have this feature but give up so many other things just for this feature. can anybody comments on this issue? maybe your comments can help me persuade my designer not use the pop up drop down menu.

help please

theslinky

What software are you using? I know some good popup javascript stuff you can use as an alternate.

I myself have written PHP code to generate these popup javascript menus by having the PHP create the arrays of the menu items (the rest of the code is DHTML javascript which uses the array to display the menus/submenus/etc).

let me know the name of the script/software AND the URL and i'll take a look and suggest a good "workable" alternate (if i can!)

-sridhar

bretticus

ditto....this is a javascript and layers (DHTML) phenomenon. Is has to be done clientside (hence javascript) to work like it does.

I have to confess...I ripped of the script I used to do it on one of my company's sites (I'm no javascript guru ;-)

Anon

the codes are working. just it is not modifiable etc.

my designer use dreamweaver xp with some plug in component for create the pop up(or pull down menu).

and it even create some compiled objects for that purpose.

i hate this kind auto created javascript codes software. most of them unclear, not protable, not modifiable, and also force you to use this software only.

like what you did, i prefer to embed my own php codes with simple javascript for creating the pop up (pull down) menu.

but the graphic designer doesn't have the programming background and his art design is really better than mine. and half of the web site is static html and it is his department. so we have to work together. and he is so excited about this feature. drove me crazy. and my changes in my programming pages will conflict with his desgin, drove him crazy.

help

Anon

Sridhar, do you have the link to the simple javascrip for creating pop up (pull down) menu?

if i can embed php and javascript for my designer to use, maybe he will give up using that stupid plug in component, which cost him 70 bucks for the component, i think.

help