pop-up menu with frames

I can't get the pop-up menus made with the behaviour that comes with MX to work across frames.


Can someone tell me how to do this.

I've only ever seen one tutorial that covers this:
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract....DE71269CA44AD8

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"choock" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I can't get the pop-up menus made with the behaviour that comes with MX to
work across frames.


Can someone tell me how to do this.

Bill:

It's not worth the trouble, really. Danilo's tutorial only shows how to
move the menu contents from one frame to another, and there is a Macromedia
Technote that does the same thing. But when you finish you still have a
finger grafted onto an elbow, so to speak.

Chook:

There is no practical way to make a layer (that's how drop-down menus work)
cross the boundary between two separate frames (i.e., two unique HTML
pages).

It is true. Your choices are limited now -

1. DUMP THE FRAMES - you would not be having this problem in a non-framed
site.
2. Redesign your menus so that they do not need to span a frame boundary.
3. Redesign the frameset so that you leave enough room for the largest
popup.
4. Move the layer code for the popups from the page in the navigation frame
to each page in the content frame.
5. DUMP THE FRAMES - you would not be having this problem in a non-framed
site.

I recommend either #1 or #5, depending on what your needs are. You just
have no idea the horrors that await you if you continue with the frames.....
8)

I also recommend that you dump the FW pop-up menus, but that's another post.

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"Bill .:CMX:." <bill (AT) nospamcommunitymx (DOT) com> wrote

I've only ever seen one tutorial that covers this:
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract....DE71269CA44AD8

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"choock" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote in message
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I can't get the pop-up menus made with the behaviour that comes with MX
to
work across frames.


Can someone tell me how to do this.

thanks for the advice. I will dump the frames. When you said I should dump the FW menus I guess you mean fireworks? I made the menus in Dreamweaver. I have made pop-up menus before without any problems in Dreamweaver, but are there any issues?

Issues? I should say so!

The DW/FW pop-ups will add at least 35K of code overhead to the first page
using them, as well as a large dynamic write to *each* page containing the
menus.

You should also know that they link to your files using document relative
links that are hardcoded in your javacript - not only are these links
invisible to the DW link management routines (i.e., when you move a page in
the site, you break the link), but worse, they are also invisible to the
search engine spiders, and accessability (508) requirements. The only way to
solve the second problem is to make sure that your pages have alternate,
HTML-based navigation links on them.

I am not fond of these menus (as you have no doubt guessed) and feel that it
is important to know what you are getting into before you may devote much
time to them.

There are some excellent alternatives to these pop-ups that have none of
these problems. Here are two methods that are very simple -

http://www.projectseven.com/tutorial...oser/index.htm

or

http://www.projectseven.com/tutorial...hide/index.htm

Here is a method that is more 'hands on' but very slick and equally trouble
free -

http://www.youngpup.net/?request=/co...deOutMenus.xml



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"choock" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

thanks for the advice. I will dump the frames. When you said I should dump
the FW menus I guess you mean fireworks? I made the menus in Dreamweaver. I

have made pop-up menus before without any problems in Dreamweaver, but are
there any issues?