[link] CSS Based Dropdown Menus (updated)
Scott's articleAn Easier Way to Highlight the Rows of a DataGrid on
MouseOver included a link to an old
ALA article on the
Suckerfish Dropdown
[updated] - see the improved
Son of Suckerfish Dropdown!
What I like about it:
CSS only approach for browsers with good CSS
support. There's a small Javascript fix for CSS challenged
browsers (i.e. IE), but it's very light. The Son of
Suckerfish code uses only 12 lines of Javascript and
supports all current browsers! I like this rather than a
heavy DHTML solution because it's lightweight and the is
built for forward compatibility with browsers that support
CSS rather than browser specific Javascript hacks. The
menu.js code for the Whidbey menu control, for instance, is
Sample:
http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/example/http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/example/
Article / Code:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/
http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/