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SuckerTree Horizontal Menu

Author: Dynamic Drive

SuckerTree Horizontal Menu is a CSS and DOM hybrid menu that's list based and supports multiple levels of sub menus. The trick to SuckerTree is a small adoptable piece of JavaScript that crawls the inner levels of a list menu and assigns the appropriate show/hide and positioning behavior to them. You can even have multiple SuckerTree menus on the same page.

See also: SuckerTree Vertical Menu.

Demo:

The two bullet images used:

The CSS:

<style type="text/css">

.suckertreemenu ul{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
}

/*Top level list items*/
.suckertreemenu ul li{
position: relative;
display: inline;
float: left;
background-color: #F3F3F3; /*overall menu background color*/
}

/*Top level menu link items style*/
.suckertreemenu ul li a{
display: block;
width: 90px; /*Width of top level menu link items*/
padding: 1px 8px;
border: 1px solid black;
border-left-width: 0;
text-decoration: none;
color: navy;
}
	
/*1st sub level menu*/
.suckertreemenu ul li ul{
left: 0;
position: absolute;
top: 1em; /* no need to change, as true value set by script */
display: block;
visibility: hidden;
}

/*Sub level menu list items (undo style from Top level List Items)*/
.suckertreemenu ul li ul li{
display: list-item;
float: none;
}

/*All subsequent sub menu levels offset after 1st level sub menu */
.suckertreemenu ul li ul li ul{ 
left: 159px; /* no need to change, as true value set by script */
top: 0;
}

/* Sub level menu links style */
.suckertreemenu ul li ul li a{
display: block;
width: 160px; /*width of sub menu levels*/
color: navy;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 1px 5px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}

.suckertreemenu ul li a:hover{
background-color: black;
color: white;
}

/*Background image for top level menu list links */
.suckertreemenu .mainfoldericon{
background: #F3F3F3 url(media/arrow-down.gif) no-repeat center right;
}

/*Background image for subsequent level menu list links */
.suckertreemenu .subfoldericon{
background: #F3F3F3 url(media/arrow-right.gif) no-repeat center right;
}

* html p#iepara{ /*For a paragraph (if any) that immediately follows suckertree menu, add 1em top spacing between the two in IE*/
padding-top: 1em;
}
	
/* Holly Hack for IE \*/
* html .suckertreemenu ul li { float: left; height: 1%; }
* html .suckertreemenu ul li a { height: 1%; }
/* End */

</style>

<script type="text/javascript">

//SuckerTree Horizontal Menu (Sept 14th, 06)
//By Dynamic Drive: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/

var menuids=["treemenu1"] //Enter id(s) of SuckerTree UL menus, separated by commas

function buildsubmenus_horizontal(){
for (var i=0; i<menuids.length; i++){
  var ultags=document.getElementById(menuids[i]).getElementsByTagName("ul")
    for (var t=0; t<ultags.length; t++){
		if (ultags[t].parentNode.parentNode.id==menuids[i]){ //if this is a first level submenu
			ultags[t].style.top=ultags[t].parentNode.offsetHeight+"px" //dynamically position first level submenus to be height of main menu item
			ultags[t].parentNode.getElementsByTagName("a")[0].className="mainfoldericon"
		}
		else{ //else if this is a sub level menu (ul)
		  ultags[t].style.left=ultags[t-1].getElementsByTagName("a")[0].offsetWidth+"px" //position menu to the right of menu item that activated it
    	ultags[t].parentNode.getElementsByTagName("a")[0].className="subfoldericon"
		}
    ultags[t].parentNode.onmouseover=function(){
    this.getElementsByTagName("ul")[0].style.visibility="visible"
    }
    ultags[t].parentNode.onmouseout=function(){
    this.getElementsByTagName("ul")[0].style.visibility="hidden"
    }
    }
  }
}

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

</script>

The HTML:

<div class="suckertreemenu">
<ul id="treemenu1">
<li><a href="#" style="border-left: 1px solid black">Item 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Folder 1</a>
  <ul>
  <li><a href="#">Sub Item 1.1</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Sub Item 1.2</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Sub Item 1.3</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Sub Item 1.4</a></li>
  </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Item 3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Folder 2</a>
  <ul>
  <li><a href="#">Sub Item 2.1</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Folder 2.1</a>
    <ul>
    <li><a href="#">Sub Item 2.1.1</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Sub Item 2.1.2</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Sub Item 2.1.3</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Sub Item 2.1.4</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>
</a>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Item 4</a></li>
</ul>
<br style="clear: left;" />
</div>

<p id="iepara">Rest of content here</p>

Code Info

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Date Posted: 09/14/2006

Revision History: None

Usage Terms: Click here

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Comment Pages 12 of 32 pages « First < 10 11 12 13 14 > Last »

Any on figure out the positining issue when you change font size in FF and IE?

""THIS menu really loses it when we use FireFox - when the user does a CTRL- (minus) to reduce the font size. when that happens there is gap between the menu item and the submenu items. Once the mouse hits this 'gap' the sub menu disappears."-ERIK's quote

-Bill

Posted by billpepitone on 02/23, 01:45 PM

Some menu entries appear in 2 lines, how can I extend the menu length so it accepts up to 20-25 characters without wrapping the line?

Thanks

Posted by Xavi Gonzalez on 02/26, 10:48 AM

Thanks Bill. The background-color fix worked perfectly.

Posted by jchalos on 02/28, 09:12 AM

jchalos,

Any luck getting the position fixed when you adjust font size in FF?

-Bill

Posted by Bill on 02/28, 10:05 AM

I am having positioning problem of a 2nd sublevel. This applies to FF, MSIE6 and MSIE7.

See the problem at this page:
http://www.guzheng.idv.hk/en/index.php

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Posted by Peter on 02/28, 09:52 PM

This menu works with frames? could it be cross frame menu?

Posted by David on 03/01, 02:49 PM

This code works very well. Many thanks to the author.

Any chance of getting the author to give an explanation of how the buildsubmenus_horizontal function works (perhaps a line by line explanation as it uses many concepts and Java functions that I do not know)??

Thanks,

Mike

Posted by Mike Tennor on 03/01, 03:15 PM

The sukertree is great, but (as you see above), I had some issues, probably caused by my lack of expertise with CSS. I lost patience and switched to the "Son of suckertree" menu. This one is not the same as the original, but it's simpler and works great on different browsers. Thanks!

However, 1 ussue remains:

The menu should overlap across the "tabbed content" (also from DD). However, it tends to hide below the tabs. (Manually setting the z-index doesn't work.) Perhaps the z-index is set inside the javascript in the tabbed content.

Thnaks!

Posted by Peter on 03/01, 08:54 PM

Please give me a brief explanation about this the above code
the code is available on:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/item/suckertree-menu-horizontal/

Posted by miny on 03/04, 07:39 AM

WOOHOO! this is a great code!

Posted by mr webby on 03/04, 07:16 PM

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