AnyLink Drop Down Menu Help

[mshssca]

1) Script Title: AnyLink Drop Down Menu

2) Script URL (on DD): http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/dropmenuindex.htm

3) Describe problem: I need more clarification on what to do with the following sample in order to make this menu work. I know that I should replace "Web Design" with my menu item's name, but is there anything else I need to modify? I'm thinking that the reason my code is not working is that I may need to change the "default.htm" to something else as well. I'm sorry, but I don't know much about code. I'm using Dreamweaver and only change very minor things in code.

<a href="default.htm" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu1, '150px')" onMouseout="delayhidemenu()">Web Design</a>

Any information would be greatly appreciated

[jscheuer1]

You can change that default.htm to the name of a page that you would like non-javascript enabled browsers to go to if they click on the header. This is a nice feature of this menu because, the drop downs will not display in a non-javascript enabled browser. The page this link goes to can have a listing of the links that would have been available in the drop down.

[bfisher]

What problem are you having? Did you include the required styles in your CSS? Are you getting Javascript errors?

[mshssca]

Ok, I've got the drop down menus to finally work (that is to drop down). Now my problem is that I can't seem to get the drop down links to work. I get page cannot be found.

Below is a sample of my code. I was experimenting with menu7[0]. I have the file general.html ready to go and saved in me resources folder. What step am I missing?

//Contents for menu 7
var menu7=new Array()
menu7[0]='<a href="http://www.mshssca.org/resources/general">General</a>'
menu7[1]='<a href="http://www.mshssca.org/resources/goalkeeping">Goalkeeping</a>'
menu7[2]='<a href="http://www.mshssca.org/resources/physical">Physical</a>'
menu7[3]='<a href="http://www.mshssca.org/resources/psychological">Psychological</a>'
menu7[4]='<a href="http://www.mshssca.org/resources/tactical">Tactical</a>'
menu7[5]='<a href="http://www.mshssca.org/resources/technical">Technical</a>'

<td><p><font color="#FFFFFF">Home </font></a><font color="#COCOFF"> |<a href="mshssca.html" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu1, '150px')" onMouseout="delayhidemenu()"><font color="#FFFFFF">The MSHSSCA</font></a><font color="#COCOFF"> | <a href="coaches.html" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu2, '150px')" onMouseout="delayhidemenu()"><font color="#FFFFFF">Coaches</font></a><font color="#COCOFF"> | <a href="players.html" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu3, '150px')" onMouseout="delayhidemenu()"><font color="#FFFFFF">Players</font></a><font color="#COCOFF"> | <a href="conferences.html" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu4, '150px')" onMouseout="delayhidemenu()"><font color="#FFFFFF">Conferences</font></a><font color="#COCOFF"> | <a href="tournament.html" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu5, '150px')" onMouseout="delayhidemenu()"><font color="#FFFFFF">State Tournament</font></a><font color="#COCOFF"> | <a href="recognition.html" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu6, '150px')" onMouseout="delayhidemenu()"><font color="#FFFFFF">Recognition</font></a><font color="#COCOFF"> | <a href="resources.html" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu7, '150px')" onMouseout="delayhidemenu()"><font color="#FFFFFF">Educational Resources</font></a> &nbsp;</p>
</td>

[jscheuer1]

When I paste this:

http://www.mshssca.org/resources/general

directly into the address bar, I get a 404 page not found.

[mshssca]

none of these pages are live as this is a new site for the association. no pages have been uploaded. that's the same error I get. does the code look correct to the best of your knowledge?

[jscheuer1]

No, if you want to link to 'general.html' you need to have it in the href. You only list 'general'.

[mshssca]

Thanks but can you please give me a typed example. I'm not following.

[jscheuer1]

menu7[0]='<a href="http://www.mshssca.org/resources/general.html">General</a>'

And that's assuming that there are no other errors.

[mshssca]

Thanks. I've tried that and it still didn't work. Can I assume that I will not be able to view the page unless I FTP it since it says page not found?