dynamic CSS menu

Help! I want to build a dynamic and x-browser CSS menu like the one at
http://www.assistivetech.net (which uses ColdFusion).

I understand how to build the CSS but I'm having a hard time finding
information about a menu system which doesn't rely on DHTML and JavaScript.

I have DreamWeaver MX 6.1, MySQL, and PHP 4.3 at my disposal, but I'm a newbie
at combining the three. Would be eternally grateful to anyone who can point my
in the right direction.

smbale1 wrote:

Help! I want to build a dynamic and x-browser CSS menu like the one at
http://www.assistivetech.net (which uses ColdFusion).

I understand how to build the CSS but I'm having a hard time finding
information about a menu system which doesn't rely on DHTML and JavaScript.

I have DreamWeaver MX 6.1, MySQL, and PHP 4.3 at my disposal, but I'm a newbie
at combining the three. Would be eternally grateful to anyone who can point my
in the right direction.

Lookie here:
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/uberlinks/

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Or here:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/horizdropdowns/

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Dan,
I love those menu styles, "A list apart" is well dogged-eared, but for this
project I need something which offers a persistant (not flyout) submenu
depending on where the user is in the site.

For example, go to http://www.assistivetech.net/webresources/index.cfm and
click on one of the subcategories.

smbale1 wrote:

Dan,
I love those menu styles, "A list apart" is well dogged-eared, but for this
project I need something which offers a persistant (not flyout) submenu
depending on where the user is in the site.

For example, go to http://www.assistivetech.net/webresources/index.cfm and
click on one of the subcategories.

I recently searched for a similar menu, but found none that's not
javascript powered. Could be simply that I didn't search long enough,
but could also be that the function in such menu that'll keep it opened
in a certain way despite change of page requires javascript? I don't
have enough knowledge about this, but I strongly doubt that you can make
a menu do that by using CSS only....

However, take a look at www.hotscripts.com or www.scriptsearch.com.
Despite it's a collection of the tackiest scripts on the web :-) ,
perhaps even www.dynamicdrive.com might have something?

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I'm sure theirs must be powered by a database, with a PHP (or whatever) script to find out what section and page is active and assign the right CSS classes. If I find out I'll share.

In case you're wondering, Hotscripts has a very nice one called "dynav" which
is used on the site: http://www.usabilityinfo.com. It doesn't do subsections,
unfortunately, but does use php to compare the current URL to listed URL and
change the style class accordingly.