I'm assuming that it would be Javascript used to do this, but what I want to try and do is to have like a navigation menu for a website. Now in that nav menu there would be say 6 entries. When a user clicks on one of these links, a subset of menues would appear and give another bunch of links. Then if the users clicked one of the original 6 links, that submenu would disappear and the submenu from that other link would appear. Something like the following: Link1 Link2 Link3 Link4 Link5 Link6 Now if the user clicked on Link1, then the nav menu would look something like (with thos submenus indented slightly): Link1 Sublink1 Sublink2 Sublink3 Link2 Link3 Link4 Link5 Link6 Then if the user clicked Link4, it would change to: Link1 Link2 Link3 Link4 Sublink1 Sublink2 Link5 Link6 If the user clicked on one of the Sublink's then it would load that page in another frame, or would load the page in the current window (if I wasn't using frames) Anyone know how this can be done? BTW, the submenus won't neccessarily have the same amount of links, ie Link1 may have 4 links in the submenu, Link3 may have 2, Link 6 may have 5 etc. etc.
What you are talking about is DHTML or Dynamic HTML. That allows you to open menus like the one's you mention. There are tons of reference books and websites on DHTML. You can also create those using an editor like Macromedia Dreamweaver. You could conceivable do this with a mouseover graphic using javascript but I think the DHTML would be easier. You can also accomplish the same thing with Flash if necessary.
Well, what you're talking about is pretty tough to do in JavaScript. Different browsers have their own quirks when it comes to Javascript, and you can spend about as much time figuring out a solution as you can just trying to get the page working on Netscape 4, Netscape 6, and Internet Explorer. The easiest thing would just be to reload a frame containing the menu with the sublinks depending on which link the user clicked. That means if you had four links, you would need to create four html pages with each page listing the sublinks for one of the links. I know that's not really very smooth and frames can have their own problems, but that's all I can tell you. Maybe someone else has a better idea. There is a way to do it in Javascript by using using something called "layers," but that could end up getting really messy. What you're talking about is more suited for Java applets. Sorry, I couldn't be of more help.
OK, thanks Jeff, DCKid. Looks like I'll have to re-install Flash then. I kind of knoew it could be done with Javascript, but didn't realise it would have been that difficult.
Chuck, for future reference...for the best javascript codes go here: <a href="http://javascript.internet.com/">http://javascript.internet.com</a> That's how I started...Don't just copy and paste, try to understand the code...it will help you in the long run because javascript will be here to stay for a long while...
