cascading drop down menus

[Christa]

I am going to create a web page in navigation view.
Should I do that first and then create the drop down menus?
What order would be the easiest?
I have code from msdn.microsoft.com/library
Creating a JavaScript Drop-Down Menu in FP
Thanks
Christa

 

[ozneil]

Hi Christa,

You can do the menus any time as long as you know the addresses of the pages
you want linked. There is an online menu builder at
http://www.javascriptmenubuilder.com/ which makes this process painless. This
menu also works OK with Frontpage shared borders. You can check out our site
at http://www.somervilleecovillage.com.au to see an example.

Neil.

 

[Christa]

Thank you for the link. It worked out very well....But now I have errors.
The first one says:
line: 50
Char: 2
Error: 'menu' is undefined
code: 0
URL:file://C:\Documents and Settings\christa\Local Settings\Temporary
Internet Files\FrontPageTempDir\pvw19.htm

What does that mean?
No menu shows up at all.
Thanks
Christa

 

[Christa]

OK. I fixed the error. Now I am just working on making the page "mine"
Thanks so much!!!
Any hints or tips?

 

[ozneil]

Hi Christa,

There is one tip I would like to share. The Javascript menu is placed on the
page in a position relative to the top left hand corner of the screen. This
can make it hard to line anything up (such as a table in a shared top border
for example). I started with a horizontal menu and gave up trying to keep
things lined up (It might look OK in Internet Explorer but check Mozilla or
Opera or some other web browsers and it might be a little different). So I
added a shared left border and used a vertical menu instead. The vertical
menu doesn't line up with anything and I can add menu items without having to
line everything up again.

Good luck!

 

[Christa]

Thank you,
I did find out where the pixel data is listed so that you can move the menu
down a little.
I have noticed that I can not see the menu in Design View in FP2003.
Do you know what I can do to fix that?
Thanks!
Christa

 

[ozneil]

Hi Christa,

Using the "Preview in Browser" option to check what the menu looks like
works for me. There might be a way to show the Javascript in design view -
maybe someone else would like to comment?

Neil

 

[Ronx]

FrontPage will not run/display JavaScript in design view - think of
the "fun" you could have designing a page if JavaScript did run - with
scripts changing the page as you worked.

 

[Murray]

And, there's a lesson here, too. If the menu doesn't show in FP's Preview,
that means that it's not really *on* the page until the browser executes the
javascript that creates it. That being the case, any 'viewer' that does not
run the javascript (like assistive screenreaders, search engine spiders, and
visitors who have javascript turned off) will also NOT SEE THE MENU.

This could have importance to you, or not, depending on what your goals for
the site are.