anylink drop down menu

[jeffg]

1) Script Title: anylink drop down menu

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

3) Describe problem: the menu works great with the exception of the pages that I have a flash "simpleviewer" gallery installed.
You can view the site at www.graymatterimages.com, for what ever reason the hyperlinks in the drop down menus are not active. I'm a newbie at html and I would greatly appreciate any help with this situation.
Thanks
Jeff

[ddadmin]

I tested out a few links in your drop down menus, and they seem to work fine for me in IE7 and FF2...

[jeffg]

They work on the main page, did you try them in one of the simpleviewer gallery pages. That seems to be where the problem exists.
Thanks for the reply.
Jeff

[jeffg]

By looking at the url of the page that is trying to come up, it appears that the link when activated calls for in addition to,the folder of the the current page instead of going directly to the folder that the link is written for. I am assuming that this is a dreamweaver thing. ex: page that is current http://www.graymatterimages.com/simp...er/newwork.htm then lets say that I want to go to "still life man made" the page that tries to come up is: http://www.graymatterimages.com/simp...illmanmade.htm instead of http://www.graymatterimages.com/simp...illmanmade.htm

[ruthc]

Hi,

Your path in the link is incorrect. I'm terrible on paths, but this is a relative path. OK, let's say you are on

simpleviewerarchcitynorthamerica/simpleviewer/archcitynorthamerica.htm

and you click on the link for the man made, because the link is

<a href="simpleviewerstillmanmade/simpleviewer/stillmanmade.htm">

the browser takes that link as relative to where you are now, not as relative to the root directory. So, the browesr says, I am at directory simpleviewerarchcitynorthamerica/simpleview/, that means that the full path from here to simpleviewerstillmanmade etc. is simpleviewerarchcitynorthamerica/simpleview/simpleviewersstillmanmade/simpleviewer/whateverPage.

So, you need to set the link so that it is relative to your root directory, or set an absolute link. Since you are in

http://root directory/northameric directory, simpleview directory

, you would have to go back two directories to get to the root, and a relative link would be ../../simpleveiwersstillmanmade etc. [I think .... I hate paths, I just use full paths like below]

http://www.graymatterimages.com/simpleviewersstillmanmade/simpleviewer/whateverPage

Hope this helps.

Ruth

[jeffg]

Thanks Ruth!
It's all working now...such a simple oversite.
Jeff

[web-betty]

The path issue with this script is annoying ;-)

But the information above definitely helped. Thanks!