Using the Select Box as a Genuine Menu II

[molendijk]

1) CODE TITLE: Using the Select Box as a Genuine Menu II

2) AUTHOR NAME: Arie Molendijk.

3) DESCRIPTION: Alternative version of this select box menu. More 'intuitive'; also easier.
Note: the functions used for filling or 'emptying' iframes / objects only work if you have an iframe or a text/html-object on the pages (with the proper names).

4) URL TO CODE: http://molendijk.110mb.com/Navigatio...ct1/page1.html

[jscheuer1]

Testing in Opera, the demo page is a little shaky. When you mouseover the menu to activate it, it looks like the down arrow is a separate image that should have been preloaded, then if you mouseover it, the arrow disappears.

[molendijk]

John, I am using Opera 9.23. No problem here (except for a minor thing). What version are you using?
(Does it only happen on page 8?).
Thanks for the comment.
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Arie.

[jscheuer1]

I didn't get to page 8, I was talking about page one. I'm using Opera 9.62. I've just looked again, when I hover directly over the arrow image it disappears (presumably because the mouse is no longer over the element which triggers the image's appearance/disappearance). In FF 3.0.4 it flickers rapidly when the mouse is over it.

About it taking some time to appear at first, once cached, that's not a problem. But many users will be coming to the pages using this for the first time, that's why I suggested a preload.

[molendijk]

OK, I see. I think I can get rid of the flicker in FF and the slow first time appearance of the arrow. Thanks for the comment.
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Arie.

[molendijk]

I corrected the button-flicker.
Ir seems OK now, except that, when you click on the main option, the arrow hides (and only comes back when we mouseover the sub-options). I dont'think it's annoying.
Also added a preload (custom select box image) for Opera, which is a bit shaky anyway, but I don't think that's 'my fault'.
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Arie.

[jscheuer1]

I'm not blaming you. If you want your script picked up by DD and/or used by others, it should work in browsers.

[molendijk]

I think I got it working now with decent results in all modern browsers. If there's still a problem yet, I'd be glad to hear about it from whoever tried it.
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Arie.

[molendijk]

I learnt some things, and revised the script, see here.
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Arie.

[molendijk]

Added some practice material (for constructing customized select boxes) to the pages referred to by the link in the previous post.
The stuff can also be viewed here.
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Arie.