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How do I make dropdownmenues in javascript. It needs to be made in layers.

Thomas
Denmark

thomaspries: Welcome. You might want to explain what you want a little more - why not use HTML?

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Emps

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Because they need to be dynamic, so that I can use a content management system in the background.

You start with the <script> tags...

Seriously man, we can't read your mind. We have no idea how skilled you are at Javascript nor what you want exactly. Maybe providing some links to what you've currently tried or links to websites that do something similar.

[This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 02-06-2003).]

thomaspries: You can complete build DDMs from JavaScript (but it is largely unneccessary and unwise) or you can manipluate the contents using JavaScript - I'm just not sure what you are looking for.

If it is the latter the see this thread:
http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum2/HTML/002000.html

if so follow my links to wsabstract as they have a whole section on dynamic combo boxes (DDMs).

If it is the former I know of resources but I really wouldn't recommend that approach.

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hi!
what content management system are you using?

generally, it can be quite a tricky process, with quite a lot of compromise.

you usually start with a commercial version of the menu, like hiermenus or the milonic menu (google it), and study the code closely.

the next trick is trying to make a site framework based navigator church out the javascript code in that order. generally, it isn't easy.

...if you feel like coding more of it yourself, an excellent place to start is here.

personally, we've been using a slightly different technique.
we use the milonic menu, and each database has a "milonic navCreator" page, which creates the JS files based on the site framework. This means that whenever you've made a change to the site framework, you have to go through this process. it is quite manual, and fairly time consuming, but the pages will generally load a lot quicker when their menu is generated from a static JS file, instead of a hundred lines of dynamically generated code.

Thanks for your help!
I've sorted it out. The content management system is called siteCore....