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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 13 of 32 pages « First < 11 12 13 14 15 > Last »

Great solution. Chris, I know it's been 5 months since your question about the border, "(left, top-most) remains black." You can find that in the HTML, not the CSS in the first couple lines.

Posted by Jason on 03/05, 08:17 PM

I want to use this menu with frames. The menu will reside in the "top" frame and i want to target to the "bottom" frame. Can I just insert the target tag after the href? ex.a href="#" target="bottom" style="border-left: 1px solid black"
And how can I make the submenus visible over the bottom frame instead of being hide thus eliminating having to scroll down.

Posted by Rich LaPadura on 03/07, 10:59 AM

Hey guys!

I have a question about this particular menu..
1. I do not know how to change the font of item1, 2 ect.
2. I do not know how to CENTER the whole table?
can you help?

Thanks

Posted by tyler on 03/08, 10:51 AM

Hi,
How can I centered the sucker menu in an outer div ?
I did some test but I couldn't success.
Thanks.
Best regards.

Posted by Yusuf Akyol on 03/10, 06:40 AM

I am trying to align center and can't - check at page and assist if possible.

Thanks!

Posted by kel on 03/12, 05:07 PM

I'm having trouble making the thing drop down, I have all the links and such and everything else is working except the drop down part

Posted by Tara on 03/19, 11:39 AM

i think this is the same problem as above, but slightly different.

if you move folder 2.1 ABOVE sub item 2.1 the gap appears between the 2 items, so when you try to select the bottom 1 you move over the gap + the menu closes.

any way to remove this gap would be appreciated.
(ie error only)

Many thanks!

Posted by Tom Dunning on 03/20, 06:04 AM

Thank you soo much jchalos, works fine now

Posted by swagg on 03/21, 03:39 PM

How do you change the postition of the menu on the page?

Posted by lefty on 03/31, 07:28 PM

Hello,

Excellent code by the way but when I pad it from the left, the sub menus appear as if it had no padding? How can I fix this without adding padding to the sub menu CSS?

Thanks

Posted by Callum Haywood on 04/05, 08:02 AM

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