Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 11/06/07 19:51

Shelly wrote:

> This is a customer requirement. 'Nuff said. Do you know of another way to
> have dropdown menus WITHOUT Javascript? I'm open to suggestions, but
> dropdowns are a must.

A must? Oh pshaw. I think they are quite annoying, as they flash about
as I move the mouse from, say, scrollbar to Back button. I guess your
customer is more interested in the glitz. :-(

A few seconds at Google turns up these, and there are lots more:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/horizdropdowns
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/final_drop.html
http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html
http://www.seoconsultants.com/css/menus/tutorial/
http://www.opencube.com/

Now, I have not tried any of these, because I have always been able to
talk my clients out of using them. Usually by taking them to a site like
http://mlb.com or
http://www.accuweather.com/
and waving the mouse around a bit.

They are also very difficult to use for anyone with motor deficiencies,
or blind users, or people with text-only browsers, etc etc. Hopefully,
no visitors who operate their computers by using a pencil in their mouth
will visit your site. :-/

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

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