any recomendations drop down nav

[gary in jersey]

i would like to create tab topped drop down navigation perhaps that will integrate my yahoo section tree so i dont have to maintain it seperetly is this possable, i dont know javascript so i hope there is some software that can help me...

[NormanRouxel]

See www.drillpine.biz/actinicstuff for several Drop Down Menus. I've also got an expanding one ( see it on http://www.chandleryworld.co.uk/ ) that I've not posted to to too much abuse of my Donationware stuff.

[gary in jersey]

thanks norman

exactly what i wanted looks great, only 1 probably stupid question but i cant find the image files..?

[NormanRouxel]

Which patch are you talking about?

[gary in jersey]

hi norman

nortree got ver 7, not a problem now though decided to put background images in the tree instead, do i need to upload these images in additonal files even if im displaying them elsewhere on my site from site1 folder..?

[NormanRouxel]

If the images are already on your server then that's fine.

Note that Internet Explorer 6 has a wierd bug where it seems to load such background images from your server once for each instance - even though they're all the same image and it's already in the clients Cache.

If you've access to your server logs you may see this.

It may be better to do without background images as this may increase page load times.

[gary in jersey]

thanx norman

taken on board, my site has a very plain design format so bgimages are not a neccesaty , well impresed with the ease of use of this drop nav...!

[NormanRouxel]

Nicely implemented. I hope you'll honour the "donationware" status of these.

You can also remove (from your Primary Templates) the redundant block:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
function YahooSections(ar)

down to (and including) the next

</SCRIPT>

[jont]

Hi Norman - just out of interest the menu on Chandlery World does it always collapse when clicking through to the new page or can the current folder/section stay open?

[NormanRouxel]

It was designed to collapse any other open lists when a new one is opened.

It might be possible to modify it to leave open ones open - but that would mean you'd need some way of closing them, otherwise the list could get too big. Probably enough changes to make it a different program.