Drop Down Boxes linking to Pages - HTML Forums

leroytrolley · 11-03-2009, 07:09 AM

Hi all.

I've been updating a website that now has a list that is getting to big and takes up abit of scrolling.

Can anybody direct me to code that allows me create drop down boxes for each catagory that lists the html pages. When the user selects the page from within the drop down box it either goes straight to the page or they need to click "go".

Cheers.

Leroy

Help-my-html · 11-04-2009, 10:26 AM

Here is some efficient code I found from JavaScript Array that works really well as a Navigation Bar.

CSS Formatting:

Code:

@charset "UTF-8";

#sddm
{	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	z-index: 30}

#sddm li
{	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style: none;
	float: left;
	font: bold 11px arial}

#sddm li a
{	display: block;
	margin: 0 1px 0 0;
	padding: 4px 10px;
	width: 60px;
	background: #5970B2;
	color: #FFF;
	text-align: center;
	text-decoration: none}

#sddm li a:hover
{	background: #49A3FF}

#sddm div
{	position: absolute;
	visibility: hidden;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	background: #EAEBD8;
	border: 1px solid #5970B2}

	#sddm div a
	{	position: relative;
		display: block;
		margin: 0;
		padding: 5px 10px;
		width: auto;
		white-space: nowrap;
		text-align: left;
		text-decoration: none;
		background: #EAEBD8;
		color: #2875DE;
		font: 11px arial}

	#sddm div a:hover
	{	background: #49A3FF;
		color: #FFF}

JavaScript Timeout function (if someone rolls their mouse out of the nav bar without clicking, it shuts the nav bar after 2 seconds)

Code:

// Copyright 2006-2007 javascript-array.com

var timeout	= 500;
var closetimer	= 0;
var ddmenuitem	= 0;

// open hidden layer
function mopen(id)
{	
	// cancel close timer
	mcancelclosetime();

	// close old layer
	if(ddmenuitem) ddmenuitem.style.visibility = 'hidden';

	// get new layer and show it
	ddmenuitem = document.getElementById(id);
	ddmenuitem.style.visibility = 'visible';

}
// close showed layer
function mclose()
{
	if(ddmenuitem) ddmenuitem.style.visibility = 'hidden';
}

// go close timer
function mclosetime()
{
	closetimer = window.setTimeout(mclose, timeout);
}

// cancel close timer
function mcancelclosetime()
{
	if(closetimer)
	{
		window.clearTimeout(closetimer);
		closetimer = null;
	}
}

// close layer when click-out
document.onclick = mclose;

HTML Output:

Code:

<html>
<body>
<ul id="sddm">
    <li><a href="#" 
        onmouseover="mopen('m1')" 
        onmouseout="mclosetime()">Home</a>
        <div id="m1" 
            onmouseover="mcancelclosetime()" 
            onmouseout="mclosetime()">
        <a href="#">HTML Drop Down</a>
        <a href="#">DHTML Menu</a>
        <a href="#">JavaScript DropDown</a>
        <a href="#">Cascading Menu</a>
        <a href="#">CSS Horizontal Menu</a>
        </div>
    </li>
    <li><a href="#" 
        onmouseover="mopen('m2')" 
        onmouseout="mclosetime()">Download</a>
        <div id="m2" 
            onmouseover="mcancelclosetime()" 
            onmouseout="mclosetime()">
        <a href="#">ASP Dropdown</a>
        <a href="#">Pulldown menu</a>
        <a href="#">AJAX Drop Submenu</a>
        <a href="#">DIV Cascading Menu</a>
        </div>
    </li>
    <li><a href="#">Order</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Help</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
</body>
</html>

Hope this helped!

Help-my-HTML

¥åßßå · 11-04-2009, 11:35 AM

I would never advise anyone to make their navigation javascript dependent

¥

jackie11 · 11-04-2009, 02:55 PM

Hi there, i have this :

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>

<head>

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
function dropdown(mySel)
{
var myWin, myVal;
myVal = mySel.options[mySel.selectedIndex].value;
if(myVal)
   {
   if(mySel.form.target)myWin = parent[mySel.form.target];
   else myWin = window;
   if (! myWin) return true;
   myWin.location = myVal;
   }
return false;
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>


</head>
<body>

<FORM 
     ACTION="../cgi-bin/redirect.pl" 
     METHOD=POST onSubmit="return dropdown(this.gourl)">
<SELECT NAME="gourl">
<OPTION VALUE="">Choose a Destination...

<OPTION VALUE="http://www.google.com">Google
<OPTION VALUE="another website/page URL">Name of webpage

</SELECT>

<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Go">
</FORM>

</body>
</html>

It looks like this:

Is this the kind of thing you were looking for??

Jackie x