Noob question re menus 1

[doctorChuckles]

Hi,

A basic question about dropdown menus, if I may.

Let's say we have a horizontal row of four menu items. If the mouse is over one of the items, a menu drops down. Lets say the menu that drops down contains three additional items.

I understand javascript is picking up a mouseover message. As far as I can tell, when the mouse is over an object -- representing a main menu item, javascript shows something, which is otherwise hidden. When the mouse leaves that object, Javascript hides the same thing.

Is that right, so far?

If so, as far as I can tell, the row of main menu items is a table, say, one cell high, and four cells wide. The thing that gets shown, and then hidden again, is another table, say, one cell wide, and three cells high, positioned just below the main menu item.

Am I getting the general idea?

Sorry if the terminology isn't quite right.

Thanks,


Tim

 

[Kirsle]

The menu that pops down is probably a table within a <div> tag, with CSS attributes (either built-in or JavaScript-controlled) to specify its position. Otherwise, all your menu items in that horizontal table would have to be as wide as the table underneath it because the tables, invisible or not, wouldn't be able to overlap. ;-)

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