creating an external JS file? Possable?

[WannaLearn]

Hi, I have a side-menu that i'm working on and so far its great, in fact I have no problem with the menu itself, I had a problem earlier but someone in this forum (I believe it was valeriav) helped me out.
But now i'm faced with another issue.
Is it somehow possable to have the menu links (which are called as <div>s) as an external .js file? I mean, the area where the side-menu has the <href> tags. Becuase the side-menu will be on a number of pages, and if the menu links has to be changed then all the pages have to be changed, you can see the problem there. If the menu is on 10 pages then all those have to be changed if the side-menu changes.
I've uploaded a sample file here:

http://www.geocities.com/wannalearn666/original_res.html

Anyone have an idea?

 

[LScott]

It is possible to create a menuItems.js file to hold the menu items in a set of arrays for each menu item, for example. This file should be included in the header section of your page. You will then have to use javascript and document.writes to loop through the arrays and write the html that is necessary for the menu divs. Check out this example for a really good sliding menu:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/davidmenu.htm

Looking at the code will provide a great tutorial for how to accomplish this kind of thing. The menu system is different, but the general principles are the same.

By the way, it appears that your code doesn't work in Netscape 4.x browsers (which may be acceptable in your situation). If you don't need to support these 'downlevel' browsers, you can avoid using document.write by using the DOM (Document Object Model) and its related methods of manipulating and creating html elements.

Good Luck!

 

[WannaLearn]

LScott, hi, I just uploaded the file again because the script does work in NS4 as well as IE4+ and NS6.
I'm looking at the site you suggetsed. Just in case, how can I use the document.write technique?

http://www.geocities.com/wannalearn666/original_res.html