Hi

I want to make a menu with dropdown submenus.
I know some ways to do it (JS, php ...) but I wonder if there's one using
CSS.  ???

Ex:

item1
subitem1.1
subitem1.2
item2
subitem2.1
subitem2.2
.....


Like directory listings.

Thanks

Bill wrote:

> I want to make a menu with dropdown submenus.

Why? As far as usability goes, its far nicer (in almost every case) to just
give the user an expanded menu to start with.

> I know some ways to do it (JS, php ...) but I wonder if there's one using
> CSS.

Yes ... if you don't mind the menus vanishing the instant the mouse drifts
away from them and not working in Internet Explorer.

If you must have expanding menus - stick to JavaScript.

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Thanks

> If you must have expanding menus - stick to JavaScript.

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:01:34 -0400, Bill wrote:

> Hi
>
> I want to make a menu with dropdown submenus.
> I know some ways to do it (JS, php ...) but I wonder if there's one using
> CSS.  ???
>
> Ex:
>
> item1
>     subitem1.1
>     subitem1.2
> item2
>     subitem2.1
>     subitem2.2
> .....
>
> Like directory listings.
>
> Thanks

Yes http://www.positioniseverything.net/css-dropdowns.html and it works in
IE FF and Opera, at least the versions I have on my machine.

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:12:22 GMT in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Rincewind favored us
with...
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:01:34 -0400, Bill wrote: 
>
> Yes http://www.positioniseverything.net/css-dropdowns.html and it works in
> IE FF and Opera, at least the versions I have on my machine.

It looks very cool, but the problem is that it's usually hard to
use such a thing because you have to guess which main category
contains the sub-category you want.

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On 21 Sep 2005 07:02:35 -0700 in
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favored us with...
> You can also check out son-of-suckerfish
> (http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/) who has taken
> the idea that Rincewind mentioned a little further and cleans it up a
> bit.

Enlighten me: how does adding Javascript constitute "cleaning it
up"? :-)

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On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:06:43 -0400, Stan Brown wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:12:22 GMT in
> comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Rincewind favored us
> with... 
>
> It looks very cool, but the problem is that it's usually hard to
> use such a thing because you have to guess which main category
> contains the sub-category you want.

What?

So if you  had 2 headings, 1 says cars, 1 says houses, you would have to
*guess* where to look for "Ford"?

On 21 Sep 2005 07:02:35 -0700, sschling@XXXXXXXXXX wrote:

> You can also check out son-of-suckerfish
> (http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/) who has taken
> the idea that Rincewind mentioned a little further and cleans it up a
> bit.

yes but your stuffed if Javascript is off :-)) whereas my recommendation
uses nothing but CSS.

In article <14uqdhb9j967u.1mi5ff4iz8gxj.dlg@40tude.net>,
Rincewind  <the_rincewind@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:06:43 -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
> 
>
>What?
>
>So if you  had 2 headings, 1 says cars, 1 says houses, you would have to
>*guess* where to look for "Ford"?

An awful lot of pages use some sort of Marketingspeak for their
catagory labels, which makes it really hard to figure out where
the information one is looking for is hidden.

--
= Eric Bustad, Norwegian bachelor programmer

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:59:50 GMT in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Rincewind favored us
with...
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:06:43 -0400, Stan Brown wrote: 
>
> What?
>
> So if you  had 2 headings, 1 says cars, 1 says houses, you would have to
> *guess* where to look for "Ford"?

Did you miss that word "usually"? Most real-life menus that I've
seen are MUCH more ambiguously structured.

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