can i make a jump/menu from a word?

i want to have a word that when you put the cusor on it a menu drops down and you have options to click on
i have seen it on other sites
thanks in advance

LBJ21 <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote:

i want to have a word that when you put the cusor on it a menu drops
down and you have options to click on i have seen it on other sites
thanks in advance

When you're using a word, image, etc to trigger a menu like this, it is no
longer called a "jump menu." A jump menu is a form element. The vocabulary
for this business can be confusing, eh? So we call it a popup or dropdown
or slideout or some such things.

There are many tutorials on this, but my favorite is here:

http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/snapmenus/index.htm

Or, you can simply do this:

1) Make a null link out of your text:

<a href="javascript:;">I'm a trigger!</a>

2) Create a "layer" in dreamweaver (positioned div), give it an id and make
the visibility hidden. Position it under you trigger. Put your links in
there:

<div id="ddlayer" style="position:absolute; width:200px; z-index:1; left:
0px; top: 0px; visibility: hidden;">
<p><a href="link1.html>link 1</a></p>
<p><a href="link1.html>link 1</a></p>
</div>

3) Style the links and the p's (or whatever container you choose - li, p,
div, table/td, etc).

4) Select the null link and use MM's Show-Hide layers to first show it
onMouseOver, the another instance to hide it onMouseOut:

<a href="javascript:;" onMouseOver="MM_showHideLayers('ddlayer','','show' )"
onMouseOut="MM_showHideLayers('ddlayer','','hide') ">I'm a trigger!</</a>'

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what is a null link?
and how do i do it

LBJ21 <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote:

what is a null link?
and how do i do it

A null link is a link that doesn't go anywhere and is therefore "null."

I just showed you how to do it: javascipt:;
That's:

javascript colon semi-colon

Select the text you want to trigger the menu and type that into the link
field in the P.I.

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