Date: 06/26/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: css, java

Here's a basic rundown of what I need to do:

I need to have something to the effect of a pull-down list that navigates people to their proper sale's rep's page regionally, so there's a pull-down menu that lists all of the states, the user then selects their state and presses a "go" (or whatever) button, and is then directed to the proper page.

I've never needed this type of pull down menu before, and I assumed that the select tag would be what I would use, but now that I'm looking into it, it seems that this would only work in conjunction with javascript, and a lot of coders find this method to be less than ideal.

I've read about drop down menus a la A List Apart's suckerfish menu, which seems to be the ideal way for standards-wise and accessibility-wise, but the CSS type menu just doesn't seem appropriate for this particular use (especially because of the pre-existing horrible mess this site is already in, design-wise and code-wise). This sounds awful, but to keep this site consistently bad, I'd just like to put a standard pull-down with navigation (a tidy little CSS drop down would look out of place).

What are your thoughts on this method? Am I overthinking it?

Boy, I can't wait until I get the go ahead to start this site over from scratch!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1130561.html