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Unconventional Drop Down Menus
I’ve just been hired to do a website for a guy who is definitely a PCer.
He wants me to create similar dropdown menus on his site as you would expect to see in Microsoft Excel if cells are consolidated.
This will be tough for me to explain but I will do my best.
Basically….
There will be a “+” on the left of each word in the drop down menu.
You can expand each word so that all of the categories can be expanded at once, or you could do them one at a time.
If the “+” is clicked, it will expand the subcategories under the main category. The “+” has to be clicked again in order for the subcategories to disappear.
For a visual….
If you had
+Media
————- Press Coverage
————- Downloads
—————News
+Schedule
——————Calendar
——————Upcoming events
+Statistics
+Locations
Anyone who can prescribe an action or method that would allow this would get infinite kudos.
Thanks.
Some of the menus above are expanded, some are not. All of them link to another page.
Hi Rocky
You can use Scriptaculous for this
softpress.com/products/scriptaculous.php
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David
Glasgow, Scotland
G5 PPC OSX.4.11 Freeway Pro 5.2.1
Just off the top of my head I would suggest looking at combining css menus with the Transition FX. Use transition effect for + sign action and css menus for the rest.
Will take a lot of fiddling, and it may not work to very deep levels, but should be doable.
Freeway Pro 5, G4 Powerbook 1.33 ghz 1.25gb ram, 2.3 ghz Dual Core MacPro 2gb ram
If you go to the old Site Map action, there is a color palette for it called Redmond or something similar. That has the plus sign things and everything. Very mid-90s.
Walter
On Jul 2, 2008, at 7:09 PM, chuckamuck wrote:
Just off the top of my head I would suggest looking at combining css menus with the Transition FX. Use transition effect for + sign action and css menus for the rest.
Will take a lot of fiddling, and it may not work to very deep levels, but should be doable.
Freeway user since 1997
> . Very mid-90s.
Walter
this whole mid 90’s retro thing is apparently the next big thing in web design… I can see spinning gif’s making a comeback
FW Pro 5.2 | MacBook Pro 17” | OS X 10.5.4 | FreshBrand.com
Remember the UPS commercial? “…we could have a spinning logo or a flaming logo!”
Walter
On Jul 3, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Helveticus wrote:
this whole mid 90’s retro thing is apparently the next big thing in web design… I can see spinning gif’s making a comeback
Freeway user since 1997
Very mid-90s.
Walter
It’s kind of odd designing a website for someone who you completely disagree with. I try to maintain professional composure.
