Conflicting Scripts

[poohster]

Hi all i have two scripts on a page which work fine on their own but together the dropdowncontent script works but my menu one does not. I have 2 external scripts for these but can not find any onload funtion.

Here is the csshorizontalmenu.js

var cssmenuids=["cssmenu1"] //Enter id(s) of CSS Horizontal UL menus, separated by commas
var csssubmenuoffset=-1//Offset of submenus from main menu. Default is 0 pixels.

function createcssmenu2(){
for (var i=0; i<cssmenuids.length; i++){
  var ultags=document.getElementById(cssmenuids[i]).getElementsByTagName("ul")
    for (var t=0; t<ultags.length; t++){
			ultags[t].style.top=ultags[t].parentNode.offsetHeight+csssubmenuoffset+"px"
    	var spanref=document.createElement("span")
			spanref.className="arrowdiv"
			spanref.innerHTML="&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"
			ultags[t].parentNode.getElementsByTagName("a")[0].appendChild(spanref)
    	ultags[t].parentNode.onmouseover=function(){
					this.style.zIndex=100
    	this.getElementsByTagName("ul")[0].style.visibility="visible"
					this.getElementsByTagName("ul")[0].style.zIndex=0
    	}
    	ultags[t].parentNode.onmouseout=function(){
					this.style.zIndex=0
					this.getElementsByTagName("ul")[0].style.visibility="hidden"
					this.getElementsByTagName("ul")[0].style.zIndex=100
    	}
    }
  }
}

if (window.addEventListener)
window.addEventListener("load", createcssmenu2, false)
else if (window.attachEvent)
window.attachEvent("onload", createcssmenu2)

and here is the dropdwoncontent.js script

//Drop Down/ Overlapping Content: http://www.dynamicdrive.com
//Last updated: Dec 19th, 07': Added ability to dynamically populate a Drop Down content using an external file (Ajax feature)

var dropdowncontent={
 delaybeforehide: 150, //set delay in milliseconds before content box disappears onMouseout (1000=1 sec)
	disableanchorlink: true, //when user clicks on anchor link, should it be disabled?
	ajaxloadingmsg: "Loading content. Please wait...", //HTML to show while ajax page is being feched
	ajaxbustcache: true, //Bust cache when fetching pages?

	getposOffset:function(what, offsettype){
		return (what.offsetParent)? what[offsettype]+this.getposOffset(what.offsetParent, offsettype) : what[offsettype]
	},

	isContained:function(m, e){
		var e=window.event || e
		var c=e.relatedTarget || ((e.type=="mouseover")? e.fromElement : e.toElement)
		while (c && c!=m)try {c=c.parentNode} catch(e){c=m}
		if (c==m)
			return true
		else
			return false
	},

	show:function(anchorobj, subobj, e){
		if (!this.isContained(anchorobj, e)){
			var horizontaloffset=(subobj.dropposition[0]=="left")? -(subobj.offsetWidth-anchorobj.offsetWidth) : 0 //calculate user added horizontal offset
			var verticaloffset=(subobj.dropposition[1]=="top")? -subobj.offsetHeight : anchorobj.offsetHeight //calculate user added vertical offset
			subobj.style.left=this.getposOffset(anchorobj, "offsetLeft") + horizontaloffset + "px"
			subobj.style.top=this.getposOffset(anchorobj, "offsetTop")+verticaloffset+"px"
			subobj.style.clip=(subobj.dropposition[1]=="top")? "rect(auto auto auto 0)" : "rect(0 auto 0 0)" //hide drop down box initially via clipping
			subobj.style.visibility="visible"
			subobj.startTime=new Date().getTime()
			subobj.contentheight=parseInt(subobj.offsetHeight)
			if (typeof window["hidetimer_"+subobj.id]!="undefined") //clear timer that hides drop down box?
				clearTimeout(window["hidetimer_"+subobj.id])
			this.slideengine(subobj, (subobj.dropposition[1]=="top")? "up" : "down")
		}
	},

	curveincrement:function(percent){
		return (1-Math.cos(percent*Math.PI)) / 2 //return cos curve based value from a percentage input
	},

	slideengine:function(obj, direction){
		var elapsed=new Date().getTime()-obj.startTime //get time animation has run
		if (elapsed<obj.glidetime){ //if time run is less than specified length
			var distancepercent=(direction=="down")? this.curveincrement(elapsed/obj.glidetime) : 1-this.curveincrement(elapsed/obj.glidetime)
			var currentclip=(distancepercent*obj.contentheight)+"px"
			obj.style.clip=(direction=="down")? "rect(0 auto "+currentclip+" 0)" : "rect("+currentclip+" auto auto 0)"
			window["glidetimer_"+obj.id]=setTimeout(function(){dropdowncontent.slideengine(obj, direction)}, 10)
		}
		else{ //if animation finished
			obj.style.clip="rect(0 auto auto 0)"
		}
	},

	hide:function(activeobj, subobj, e){
		if (!dropdowncontent.isContained(activeobj, e)){
			window["hidetimer_"+subobj.id]=setTimeout(function(){
				subobj.style.visibility="hidden"
				subobj.style.left=subobj.style.top=0
				clearTimeout(window["glidetimer_"+subobj.id])
			}, dropdowncontent.delaybeforehide)
		}
	},

	ajaxconnect:function(pageurl, divId){
		var page_request = false
		var bustcacheparameter=""
		if (window.XMLHttpRequest) // if Mozilla, IE7, Safari etc
			page_request = new XMLHttpRequest()
		else if (window.ActiveXObject){ // if IE6 or below
			try {
			page_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")
			} 
			catch (e){
				try{
				page_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
				}
				catch (e){}
			}
		}
		else
			return false
		document.getElementById(divId).innerHTML=this.ajaxloadingmsg //Display "fetching page message"
		page_request.onreadystatechange=function(){dropdowncontent.loadpage(page_request, divId)}
		if (this.ajaxbustcache) //if bust caching of external page
			bustcacheparameter=(pageurl.indexOf("?")!=-1)? "&"+new Date().getTime() : "?"+new Date().getTime()
		page_request.open('GET', pageurl+bustcacheparameter, null)
		page_request.send(null)
	},

	loadpage:function(page_request, divId){
		if (page_request.readyState == 4 && (page_request.status==200 || window.location.href.indexOf("http")==-1)){
			document.getElementById(divId).innerHTML=page_request.responseText
		}
	},

 init:function(anchorid, pos, glidetime){
		var anchorobj=document.getElementById(anchorid)
		var subobj=document.getElementById(anchorobj.getAttribute("rel"))
		var subobjsource=anchorobj.getAttribute("rev")
		if (subobjsource!=null && subobjsource!="")
			this.ajaxconnect(subobjsource, anchorobj.getAttribute("rel"))
		subobj.dropposition=pos.split("-")
		subobj.glidetime=glidetime || 1000
		subobj.style.left=subobj.style.top=0
		anchorobj.onmouseover=function(e){dropdowncontent.show(this, subobj, e)}
		anchorobj.onmouseout=function(e){dropdowncontent.hide(subobj, subobj, e)}
		if (this.disableanchorlink) anchorobj.onclick=function(){return false}
		subobj.onmouseout=function(e){dropdowncontent.hide(this, subobj, e)}
	}
}

any help would be gladly received

[pman]

It really depends on how you are using the two scripts. I assume that you added csshorizontalmenu.js first and then dropdwoncontent.js.

In your csshorizontalmenu.js you have

if (window.addEventListener)
window.addEventListener("load", createcssmenu2, false)
else if (window.attachEvent)
window.attachEvent("onload", createcssmenu2)

This is simply adding an event to the page so that csshorizontalmenu starts working whatever it needs to do, when your page loads.

If you already have an event on your body tag to use the dropdwoncontent.js, then, it replaces event that was attached from csshorizontalmenu.js script.

but together the dropdowncontent script works but my menu one does not.

Most likely that's why it's working like that.

If you are still having trouble, post a snippet of your html code showing how/where you added the two scripts