Scripts or Active X Warning - Glossy Accordion Menu

**Craigm** · 03-18-2014, 06:05 PM

I am a Newbe, that said I have gotten several menus from DynamicDrive.com to work. Good job Guys!

All the menus, from DymanicDrive, I have gotten to work are causing the following warning " Internet Explorer restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls."

When I go to your web pages "http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/ddaccordionmenu-glossy.htm" I do not get any warning messages.

As a casual website visitor I would not enable the Scripts or ActiveX on a web page I did not know. Thus it is important to me to fix this warning.

Can you please help me understand how to correct this warning? Below is the code I am using for Glossy Accordion Menu. It should be a direct copy of the code in your example.

THANKS, Craigm

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="generator" content="CoffeeCup HTML Editor (www.coffeecup.com)">
<meta name="created" content="Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:09:47 GMT">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
<title></title>



<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="ddaccordion.js">

/***********************************************
* Accordion Content script- (c) Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (www.dynamicdrive.com)
* Visit http://www.dynamicDrive.com for hundreds of DHTML scripts
* This notice must stay intact for legal use
***********************************************/

</script>

<script type="text/javascript">

ddaccordion.init({
headerclass: "submenuheader", //Shared CSS class name of headers group
contentclass: "submenu", //Shared CSS class name of contents group
revealtype: "click", //Reveal content when user clicks or onmouseover the header? Valid value: "click", "clickgo", or "mouseover"
mouseoverdelay: 200, //if revealtype="mouseover", set delay in milliseconds before header expands onMouseover
collapseprev: true, //Collapse previous content (so only one open at any time)? true/false
defaultexpanded: [0], //index of content(s) open by default [index1, index2, etc] [] denotes no content
onemustopen: false, //Specify whether at least one header should be open always (so never all headers closed)
animatedefault: false, //Should contents open by default be animated into view?
persiststate: false, //persist state of opened contents within browser session?
toggleclass: ["", ""], //Two CSS classes to be applied to the header when it's collapsed and expanded, respectively ["class1", "class2"]
togglehtml: ["suffix", "<img src='plus.gif' class='statusicon' />", "<img src='minus.gif' class='statusicon' />"], //Additional HTML added to the header when it's collapsed and expanded, respectively ["position", "html1", "html2"] (see docs)
animatespeed: "fast", //speed of animation: integer in milliseconds (ie: 200), or keywords "fast", "normal", or "slow"
oninit:function(headers, expandedindices){ //custom code to run when headers have initalized
//do nothing
},
onopenclose:function(header, index, state, isuseractivated){ //custom code to run whenever a header is opened or closed
//do nothing
}
})

</script>

<style type="text/css">

.glossymenu{
margin: 5px 0;
padding: 0;
width: 170px; /*width of menu*/
border: 1px solid #9A9A9A;
border-bottom-width: 0;
}

.glossymenu a.menuitem{
background: black url(glossyback.gif) repeat-x bottom left;
font: bold 14px "Lucida Grande", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: white;
display: block;
position: relative; /*To help in the anchoring of the ".statusicon" icon image*/
width: auto;
padding: 4px 0;
padding-left: 10px;
text-decoration: none;
}

.glossymenu a.menuitem:visited, .glossymenu .menuitem:active{
color: white;
}

.glossymenu a.menuitem .statusicon{ /*CSS for icon image that gets dynamically added to headers*/
position: absolute;
top: 5px;
right: 5px;
border: none;
}

.glossymenu a.menuitem:hover{
background-image: url(glossyback2.gif);
}

.glossymenu div.submenu{ /*DIV that contains each sub menu*/
background: white;
}

.glossymenu div.submenu ul{ /*UL of each sub menu*/
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

.glossymenu div.submenu ul li{
border-bottom: 1px solid blue;
}

.glossymenu div.submenu ul li a{
display: block;
font: normal 13px "Lucida Grande", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 2px 0;
padding-left: 10px;
}

.glossymenu div.submenu ul li a:hover{
background: #DFDCCB;
colorz: white;
}

</style>

</head>
<body>

<div class="glossymenu">
<a class="menuitem" href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/">Dynamic Drive</a>
<a class="menuitem submenuheader" href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/" >CSS Examples</a>
<div class="submenu">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/category/C1/">Horizontal CSS Menus</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/category/C2/">Vertical CSS Menus</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/category/C4/">Image CSS</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/category/C6/">Form CSS</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/category/C5/">DIVs and containers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/category/C7/">Links & Buttons</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/category/C8/">Other</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/all/">Browse All</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<a class="menuitem" href="http://www.javascriptkit.com/jsref/">JavaScript Reference</a>
<a class="menuitem" href="http://www.javascriptkit.com/domref/">DOM Reference</a>
<a class="menuitem submenuheader" href="http://www.cssdrive.com">CSS Drive</a>
<div class="submenu">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.cssdrive.com">CSS Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/menudesigns/">Menu Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/news/">Web Design News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/examples/">CSS Examples</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/main/csscompressor/">CSS Compressor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=6">CSS Forums</a></li>
</ul>
<img src="http://i27.tinypic.com/sy7295.gif" style="margin: 10px 5px" />
</div>
<a class="menuitem" href="http://www.codingforums.com/" style="border-bottom-width: 0">Coding Forums</a>
</div>

<p>Assuming the current page is named "current.htm", the below links when navigated to expands a particular header on that page:</p>
<p>
- <a href="current.htm?submenuheader=0">Expand 1st header within "submenuheader" header group</a><br />
</p>

<p>Helpful links: </p>
<p>
- <a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/ddaccordion_suppliment.htm">Adding arbitrary links hat expand/ collapse the contents</a><br />
- <a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/ddaccordion_suppliment2.htm">Taking advantage of the oninit() and onopenclose() event handlers</a><br />
</p>

</body>
</html>

**jscheuer1** · 03-22-2014, 03:40 AM

Don't use IE, use some other browser for local testing. Or put the page up live. Once live, there will be no such problem even in IE.

**molendijk** · 03-22-2014, 03:58 PM

Depending on the script you want to test locally, there may even be issues with Google Chrome and/or Opera in certain cases. There won't be such problems on the internet. So your casual website visitor won't be frightened.

In my experience, local testing is best done with Firefox.

**Craigm** · 03-24-2014, 08:39 PM

Originally Posted by molendijk

Depending on the script you want to test locally, there may even be issues with Google Chrome and/or Opera in certain cases. There won't be such problems on the internet. So your casual website visitor won't be frightened.

In my experience, local testing is best done with Firefox.

You are exactly correct. Once I moved to a production server the problem went away. I tested your solution by uploading a test web site to a production web server and life was good!

Thank You, CraigM