Drop down menus

In all the years I have been doing web sites I have never felt the need to use drop down menus. I have now been asked to do them.

Does anyone know of any good resource where I can get hold of the necessary code or templates that can be modified?

Hey David,

Have you got an example of the type of drop down menu you are looking to create?

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This was the one I found:

http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/example/

Would not want the pictures in the drop down. I thought I might be able to adapt this one but have been worried about what works and what does not in different browsers. I use Firefox as my main browser since I had problems earlier in the year and whilst it is good some things do not work in it.

Heres a couple of examples I found.

http://dhtml-menu.com/menu-demos/demo1123.html
http://www.opencube.com/
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/36892.html

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I was experimenting a bit with menus and I eventually created (and optimized for Firefox, Opera and IE) this menu: http://abes.newelski.com/intechnet/
It is cool because of the transparency! If you want I can send you all the files needed to implement it to your website. I can also help you out if you will have any troubles with setting it up ;]

I like that - it looks really good.

I have no projects at the moment which need drop down menus. The one I was doing got done without them. I have been busy trying to learn CSS.

This is the nw design I came up with for my web site:

http://www.hub-uk.com/hub2/

and this is the CSS version I came up with:

http://www.hub-uk.com/hub2/index-css.html

I suppose some time I should have a look at drop down menus using CSS - if I ever get time.

Thanks! Your menus look good as well! And speaking of transparency it is just one parameter (opacity) to change so you can have non-transparent menus from that by changing just one number :]

Having got the redesign of Hub-UK more or less working with CSS about ten days ago:

http://www.hub-uk.com/hub2/index-css.html

and it worked in Firefox and IE, I decided on Friday night and over the weekend to improve the menu system. I set about creating that on its own so that it would be easier to understand what was going on. Mastered that on Sunday afternoon:

http://www.cookingholidays.co.uk/test/menuhub.htm

So Sunday night I was ready to amalgamate one with the other and . . . the air was blue. Everything went pear shaped and I stormed off to do something else!

Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

The menu background in Firefox is a bit close to the left of the screen but the menu should actually be centralised on the background. The menu is supposed to expand out for certain items but it does not in IE. That may be due to me using the IE fix as a SSI. If I embed the fix in the page then it defeats the object of CSS because if I was to make changes I would then have to edit every page to change the IE fix.