Mega Code Archive
Drop-Down Menus
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/tr/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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Example File From "JavaScript and DHTML Cookbook"
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Copyright 2003 Danny Goodman
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<html>
<head>
<title>Recipe 10.8</title>
<style id="main" type="text/css">
body {background-color:#eeeeee; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12px;}
h1 {font-size:2.0em; font-weight:bold}
</style>
<style rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
.menuWrapper {
position:absolute;
width:162px;
background-color:#339966;
visibility:hidden;
border-style:solid;
border-width:2px;
border-color:#EFEFEF #505050 #505050 #EFEFEF;
display:block;
padding:3px;
}
.menuItem {
cursor:pointer;
font-size:12px;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
border-bottom:1px solid #505050;
border-top:1px solid #EFEFEF;
padding-left:10px;
color:black;
background-color:#339966;
text-decoration:none;
position:absolute;
left:0px;
width:159px;
height:1.4em;
display:block;
line-height:1.4em
}
.menuItemOn {
cursor:pointer;
font-size:12px;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
border-bottom:1px solid #505050;
border-top:1px solid #EFEFEF;
padding-left:10px;
color:#000000;
background-color:#33ff00;
text-decoration:underline;
position:absolute;
left:0px;
width:159px;
height:1.4em;
display:block;
line-height:1.4em
}
</style>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
// global menu state
var menuReady = false;
// pre-cache menubar image pairs
if (document.images) {
var imagesNormal = new Array();
imagesNormal["home"] = new Image(20, 80);
imagesNormal["home"].src = "home_off.jpg";
imagesNormal["catalog"] = new Image(20, 80);
imagesNormal["catalog"].src = "catalog_off.jpg";
imagesNormal["about"] = new Image(20, 80);
imagesNormal["about"].src = "about_off.jpg";
var imagesHilite = new Array();
imagesHilite["home"] = new Image(20, 80);
imagesHilite["home"].src = "home_on.jpg";
imagesHilite["catalog"] = new Image(20, 80);
imagesHilite["catalog"].src = "catalog_on.jpg";
imagesHilite["about"] = new Image(20, 80);
imagesHilite["about"].src = "about_on.jpg";
}
function getElementStyle(elem, IEStyleProp, CSSStyleProp) {
if (elem.currentStyle) {
return elem.currentStyle[IEStyleProp];
} else if (window.getComputedStyle) {
var compStyle = window.getComputedStyle(elem, "");
return compStyle.getPropertyValue(CSSStyleProp);
}
return "";
}
// carry over some critical menu style sheet attribute values
var CSSRuleValues = {menuItemHeight:"18px",
menuItemLineHeight:"1.4em",
menuWrapperBorderWidth:"2px",
menuWrapperPadding:"3px",
defaultBodyFontSize:"12px"
};
// specifications for menu contents and menubar image associations
var menus = new Array();
menus[0] = {mBarImgId:"menuImg_1",
mBarImgNormal:imagesNormal["home"],
mBarImgHilite:imagesHilite["home"],
menuItems:[],
elemId:""
};
menus[1] = {mBarImgId:"menuImg_2",
mBarImgNormal:imagesNormal["catalog"],
mBarImgHilite:imagesHilite["catalog"],
menuItems:[ {text:"Deluxe Line", href:"catalog_deluxe.html"},
{text:"Budget Line", href:"catalog_budget.html"},
{text:"Export", href:"catalog_export.html"},
{text:"Order Print Catalog", href:"catalog_order.html"}
],
elemId:""
};
menus[2] = {mBarImgId:"menuImg_3",
mBarImgNormal:imagesNormal["about"],
mBarImgHilite:imagesHilite["about"],
menuItems:[ {text:"Press Releases", href:"press.html"},
{text:"Executive Staff", href:"staff.html"},
{text:"Map to Our Offices", href:"map.html"},
{text:"Company History", href:"history.html"},
{text:"Job Postings", href:"jobs.html"},
{text:"Contact Us", href:"contact.html"}
],
elemId:""
};
// create hash table-like lookup for menu objects with id string indexes
function makeHashes() {
for (var i = 0; i < menus.length; i++) {
menus[menus[i].elemId] = menus[i];
menus[menus[i].mBarImgId] = menus[i];
}
}
// assign menu label image event handlers
function assignLabelEvents() {
var elem;
for (var i = 0; i < menus.length; i++) {
elem = document.getElementById(menus[i].mBarImgId);
elem.onmouseover = swap;
elem.onmouseout = swap;
}
}
// invoked from init(), generates the menu div elements and their contents.
// all this action is invisible to user during construction
function makeMenus() {
var menuDiv, menuItem, itemLink, mbarImg, textNode, offsetLeft, offsetTop;
// determine key adjustment factors for the total height of menu divs
var menuItemH = 0;
var bodyFontSize = parseInt(getElementStyle(document.body, "fontSize", "font-size"));
// test to see if browser's font size has been adjusted by the user
// and that the new size registers as an applied style property
if (bodyFontSize == parseInt(CSSRuleValues.defaultBodyFontSize)) {
menuItemH = (parseFloat(CSSRuleValues.menuItemHeight));
} else {
// works nicely in Netscape 7
menuItemH = parseInt(parseFloat(CSSRuleValues.menuItemLineHeight) * bodyFontSize);
}
var heightAdjust = parseInt(CSSRuleValues.menuWrapperPadding) +
parseInt(CSSRuleValues.menuWrapperBorderWidth);
if (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer" &&
navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Win") != -1 &&
(typeof document.compatMode == "undefined" ||
document.compatMode == "BackCompat")) {
heightAdjust = -heightAdjust;
}
// use menus array to drive div creation loop
for (var i = 0; i < menus.length; i++) {
menuDiv = document.createElement("div");
menuDiv.id = "popupmenu" + i;
// preserve menu's ID as property of the menus array item
menus[i].elemId = "popupmenu" + i;
menuDiv.className = "menuWrapper";
if (menus[i].menuItems.length > 0) {
menuDiv.style.height = (menuItemH * menus[i].menuItems.length) -
heightAdjust + "px";
} else {
// don't display any menu div lacking menu items
menuDiv.style.display = "none";
}
// define event handlers
menuDiv.onmouseover = keepMenu;
menuDiv.onmouseout = requestHide;
// set stacking order in case other layers are around the page
menuDiv.style.zIndex = 1000;
// assemble menu item elements for inside menu div
for (var j = 0; j < menus[i].menuItems.length; j++) {
menuItem = document.createElement("div");
menuItem.id = "popupmenuItem_" + i + "_" + j;
menuItem.className = "menuItem";
menuItem.onmouseover = toggleHighlight;
menuItem.onmouseout = toggleHighlight;
menuItem.onclick = hideMenus;
menuItem.style.top = menuItemH * j + "px";
itemLink = document.createElement("a");
itemLink.href = menus[i].menuItems[j].href;
itemLink.className = "menuItem";
itemLink.onmouseover = toggleHighlight;
itemLink.onmouseout = toggleHighlight;
textNode = document.createTextNode(menus[i].menuItems[j].text);
itemLink.appendChild(textNode);
menuItem.appendChild(itemLink);
menuDiv.appendChild(menuItem);
}
// append each menu div to the body
document.body.appendChild(menuDiv);
}
makeHashes();
assignLabelEvents();
// pre-position menu
for (i = 0; i < menus.length; i++) {
positionMenu(menus[i].elemId);
}
menuReady = true;
}
// initialize global that helps manage menu hiding
var timer;
// invoked from mouseovers inside menus to cancel hide
// request from mouseout of menu bar image et al.
function keepMenu() {
clearTimeout(timer);
}
function cancelAll() {
keepMenu();
menuReady = false;
}
// invoked from mouseouts to request hiding all menus
// in 1/4 second, unless cancelled
function requestHide() {
timer = setTimeout("hideMenus()", 250);
}
// "brute force" hiding of all menus and restoration
// of normal menu bar images
function hideMenus() {
for (var i = 0; i < menus.length; i++) {
document.getElementById(menus[i].mBarImgId).src = menus[i].mBarImgNormal.src;
var menu = document.getElementById(menus[i].elemId)
menu.style.visibility = "hidden";
}
}
// set menu position just before displaying it
function positionMenu(menuId){
// use the menu bar image for position reference of related div
var mBarImg = document.getElementById(menus[menuId].mBarImgId);
var offsetTrail = mBarImg;
var offsetLeft = 0;
var offsetTop = 0;
while (offsetTrail) {
offsetLeft += offsetTrail.offsetLeft;
offsetTop += offsetTrail.offsetTop;
offsetTrail = offsetTrail.offsetParent;
}
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Mac") != -1 &&
typeof document.body.leftMargin != "undefined") {
offsetLeft += document.body.leftMargin;
offsetTop += document.body.topMargin;
}
var menuDiv = document.getElementById(menuId);
menuDiv.style.left = offsetLeft + "px";
menuDiv.style.top = offsetTop + mBarImg.height + "px";
}
// display a particular menu div
function showMenu(menuId) {
if (menuReady) {
keepMenu();
hideMenus();
positionMenu(menuId);
var menu = document.getElementById(menuId);
menu.style.visibility = "visible";
}
}
// menu bar image swapping, invoked from mouse events in menu bar
// swap style sheets for menu items during rollovers
function toggleHighlight(evt) {
evt = (evt) ? evt : ((event) ? event : null);
if (typeof menuReady != "undefined") {
if (menuReady && evt) {
var elem = (evt.target) ? evt.target : evt.srcElement;
if (elem.nodeType == 3) {
elem = elem.parentNode;
}
if (evt.type == "mouseover") {
keepMenu();
elem.className ="menuItemOn";
} else {
elem.className ="menuItem";
requestHide();
}
evt.cancelBubble = true;
}
}
}
function swap(evt) {
evt = (evt) ? evt : ((event) ? event : null);
if (typeof menuReady != "undefined") {
if (evt && (document.getElementById && document.styleSheets) && menuReady) {
var elem = (evt.target) ? evt.target : evt.srcElement;
if (elem.className == "menuImg") {
if (evt.type == "mouseover") {
showMenu(menus[elem.id].elemId);
elem.src = menus[elem.id].mBarImgHilite.src;
} else if (evt.type == "mouseout") {
requestHide();
}
evt.cancelBubble = true;
}
}
}
}
// create menus only if key items are supported
function initMenus() {
if (document.getElementById && document.styleSheets) {
setTimeout("makeMenus()", 5);
window.onunload=cancelAll;
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="initMenus()">
<h1>Drop-Down Menus</h1>
<hr />
<div id="menubar">
<a href="index.html"><img id="menuImg_1" class="menuImg"
src="home_off.jpg" border="0" height="20"
width="80"></a><a href="catalog.html"><img id="menuImg_2"
class="menuImg" src="catalog_off.jpg" border="0" height="20"
width="80"></a><a href="about.html"><img id="menuImg_3"
class="menuImg" src="about_off.jpg" border="0"
height="20" width="80"></a>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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