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Professional variable width dropdown menu #4

15th October 2008

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Information

Having developed my previous menu to use IE CSS expressions to set the width of the sub menus I have found that it is only a small step to use expressions to do what suckerfish does with javascript.

In this demo I use the same expression but rewritten to work out the widths of the sub menus and have a single line to also add the class .cssplay_hover to the li tag when the mouse is over the element and remove the class when the mouse is moved off the element. So a simple one line expression to replace the suckerfish javascript. I know that expressions are javascript driven but with this method there is no waiting for the page to load before the routine works and it is all combined within the stylesheet.

It also means that you do not need the conditional comments in the menu structure which is now just an ordinary set of nested lists.

This menu has been tested and works in IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera, Safari(PC) and Google Chrome.




Copyright

Because of all the time and effort spent in producing this demonstration I would ask that you respect my copyright.

1. If you are using this on a personal web site then please add a link back to CSSplay and retain any copyright comment in the stylesheet.
A donation to the 'Support CSSplay' fund would be appreciated.

2. If you are using this on a commercial web site, or as a paying job for a client, then please email me asking for permission - stu{at}cssplay.co.uk and in this case a donation to the 'Support CSSplay' fund is required.

3. If you are having problems integrating any of my demonstrations into your website then I now offer a service to fault find and correct any errors that you may have introduced. Please email me for more information.


Terms and Conditions

This menu can be used subject to the following terms and conditions.

  1. If you wish to use this menu in your website(s) please email me stu{at}cssplay.co.uk seeking permission.
  2. You may NOT place this menu on another site for others to download.
  3. You may NOT redistrubute or resell this menu.
  4. Users agree not to remove or edit the credit notice within the stylesheet, or claim that this menu is their own.
  5. A donation to support CSSplay is required for the use of this menu.


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