FrontPage 2003 Drop Down menu via layers?

[Dewayne]

Team -

Hope this make sense. In the demo MS put out at the following page http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/demo.mspx - under Design Features, then interactive. The demo goes through creating the interactive button but then shows a new drop down menu feature (not a jump to type script).

I have worked for hours without any luck being able to produce this mouse over menu effect via frontpage 2003 using layers as shown int he demo.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

There is no "automatic" drop down DHTML feature in FP2003
The demo was created using Layers and absolute positioning / (go to URL) behaviors for each link




| Team -
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| Hope this make sense. In the demo MS put out at the following page http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/demo.mspx -
under Design Features, then interactive. The demo goes through creating the interactive button but then shows a new drop down menu
feature (not a jump to type script).
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| I have worked for hours without any luck being able to produce this mouse over menu effect via frontpage 2003 using layers as
shown int he demo.
|
| Any suggestions?
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| Thanks for the help.

 

[Ronx]

The top menus at www.rxs-enterprises.com are based on the techniques
described in the demo. The JavaScript has been changed slightly and moved
to an external .js to reduce page load time, but other than that are
produced using "out of the box" FP2003 layers and behaviours. You should be
looking at the ommouseout, onmouseover events affecting visibility of the
layers. The hover effects on the drop down menus are CSS, based on the
writings of Jon Spivey in this newsgroup.

An alternative menu, loosely based on a Jon Spivey article at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfp2k2/html/odc_fpdropdownmenu.asp
(beware url wrapping over several lines), and using FP layers and
interactive buttons (but not behaviours) can be seen at
www.rxs-enterprises.com/browsers/

HTH
--
Ron

Reply only to group - all emails will be deleted unread.

Team -

Hope this make sense. In the demo MS put out at the following page

http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/demo.mspx - under Design
Features, then interactive. The demo goes through creating the interactive
button but then shows a new drop down menu feature (not a jump to type
script).

I have worked for hours without any luck being able to produce this mouse

over menu effect via frontpage 2003 using layers as shown int he demo.

 

[jon spivey]

Hi,
I wrote up a tutorial a while ago on building a menu in FP2003
http://www.roksteady.net/fpmenu/

This technique is a little tedious but it can all be done in design view
using the change property behaviour

Jon
Micrsoft MVP - FP

Team -

Hope this make sense. In the demo MS put out at the following page

http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/demo.mspx - under Design
Features, then interactive. The demo goes through creating the interactive
button but then shows a new drop down menu feature (not a jump to type
script).

I have worked for hours without any luck being able to produce this mouse

over menu effect via frontpage 2003 using layers as shown int he demo.

 

[MD WebsUnlimited.com]

Hi Ron,

This statement caught eye, "... and moved to an external .js to reduce page
load time, but .. "

Actually doing that will increase page load time as another file and
connection must be opened for the external file. Any time you have to open
a file you lengthen the overall time of the application.

 

[Jim Cheshire]

If you want to implement the design in this way so that you can avoid the
overhead of loading the client-side script on each request, you can use
Scripter from my Web site to link the external .js file to your pages.

--
Jim Cheshire
Jimco Add-ins
http://www.jimcoaddins.com
===================================
Co-author of Special Edition
Using Microsoft FrontPage 2003
Order it today!
http://sefp2003.frontpagelink.com

 

[Scott Barrett]

cannot seem to locate it at roksteady.net

 

[Jon Spivey]

Hi Scott,
is this what you're after?
http://fp.roksteady.net/menu/