Showmenu2 Horizontal by Deluxe-Menu.com
Showmenu2 Horizontal

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Showmenu2 Horizontal Cross Frame Menu

Features

Compatibility              
  • Full cross-browser compatibility including IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Firefox, Konqueror and Safari on Windows, Mac OS and Linux
  • Menu can be populated from a database using ASP, PHP, etc.
  • Search engine friendly
  • Support for any doctypes
  • Fits for secure sites
  • Section 508 compliant
Easy Setup
  • De Luxe Tuner. GUI interface to create your showmenu2 horizontal menus easily and in no time
  • Sensible menu parameters for manual editing
Slide Down Menu And Javascript Showmenu2 Horizontal
Seamless Integration
  • Cross-frame support - menus work on frameset-based pages
  • Visible over flash, select boxes, iframes, java applets
  • Multiple menus on the same page
  • Amicable to other scripts and css styles
  • Any HTML code can be used inside menu items
High Performance
  • AJAX menu loading - loads web menu data from the server "on-the-fly".
  • Commonly loads quicker than other html page elements
  • UL/LI items structure
  • Runs well with an unlimited number of submenus and items
Unrivalled Features
  • Scrollable, dragable, floating, right-click menus
  • Keyboard navigation - press Ctrl+F2 to enter the menu
  • Unique Java Script API for altering menu "on-the-fly", without page reloading
  • AJAX technology - loads menu data from the server "on-fly and on-demand".
  • Search feature - add the search area in the menu and type symbols. The found words will be higlighted.
  • Sound support!



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Javascript Menu. DHTML Menu.

  • Tune menu parameters manually or using Deluxe Tuner. Then add several rows of a code within html page - your menu is ready!
  • Use special JavaScript functions for: Dynamic changing of items (text, link, icons and even individual style!). Making a menu item active/inactive. Addition/removing of items. Changing of visibility of items. Getting the information on any menu, submenu and items. Other tricks.
  • Opportunity to control the menu from the keyboard.
  • Cross-frame mode allows you to build full-featured menus on the pages that use frame-based structure. But for all that it's not necessary to insert any additional code into all the pages - just specify some additional parameters of the menu.

Recent Questions

Q: I am totally confused by this now but I have 2 data files - one for a menu bar going horizontal and one going vertical both containing the same information. But even though the content is the same, the layout is different.

You will see that on the horizontal menu,

Fleet
Financce
CPC Cards
Cashire

These are listed correctly under each other but on the vertical one, the layout differs.


A: You should write your parameters more carefully.
See, now you have

menuItems = [
["About us","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,0 , , , ],
   ["|||Organisation Chart","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,1, , , ],

First you have the 1-st level of menu items then at once 4-th. It isnot right. You should write the number of your Individual Style in ""also.

See, how you should write your menuItems:

menuItems = [
["About us","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"0" , , , ],
 ["|Organisation Chart","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"","1", , , ],
 ["|Who's Who?","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/Who's Who?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
 ["|Contact Details","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["How To?","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"0", , , ],
 ["|Fleet","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
   ["||Hire a Vehicle","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/Hire a Vehicle?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
   ["||Report an Accident","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/How to report an accident?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
   ["||Report a Breakdown","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/Report a Breakdown?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
 ["|Finance Admin","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
   ["||Capitalise an Asset","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/capitalise an asset?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
   ["||Pay your Personal Calls on Mobile Phone Bills","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/Pay your personal calls on mobile phone bills?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
   ["||Request a credit to be raised","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
 ["|CPC Cards","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
   ["||Request a new CPC user","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/request a new cpc user?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
   ["||Report a Lost/Stolen CPC Card","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/Report a lost or stolen card?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
   ["||Enquire about a general CPC query","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/enquire about a general cpc query?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
 ["|Cashier","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
   ["||Request a Cashbook Manual Payment","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/Request a Cashbook Manual Payment?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
   ["||Request a Cashbook BACS Payment","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/Request a cashbook Bacs payment?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["Useful Information","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"0" , , , ],
 ["|Month End Timetable 2007","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
 ["|Month End Year to Date Results","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
   ["||Coming Soon...","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["Finance Focus","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"0" , , , ],
 ["|Coming Soon...","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["Coming Soon","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"0", , , ],
];

dm_init();


Q: I need to include backgroundimages for my navigation, so I put them in the same folder where the "data.js" file can be found. I am using the deluxe tuner in order to call these files and it looks great in the preview. As soon as I save the file and load it in the browser, the background images are missing.
Any solutions for this problem?


A: Now you have such paths for all your images data.files/image.gif

  var itemStyles = [
["itemWidth=128px","itemBackImage=data.files/nav01_off.gif,data.files/nav01_off.gif"],
["itemWidth=128px","itemBackImage=data.files/nav02_off.gif,data.files/nav02_off.gif"],
["itemWidth=128px","itemBackImage=data.files/nav03_off.gif,data.files/nav03_off.gif"],
["itemWidth=128px","itemBackImage=data.files/nav04_off.gif,data.files/nav04_off.gif"],
["itemWidth=128px","itemBackImage=data.files/nav05_off.gif,data.files/nav05_off.gif"],
];

But you don't have images in "data.files/" folder. That's why youcan't see them.
Please, check all your paths.

You can use additional parameters to make menu paths absolute:

  var pathPrefix_img = "http://domain.com/images/";
  var pathPrefix_link = "http://domain.com/pages/";

These parameters allow to make images and links paths absolute.
For example:

  var pathPrefix_img = "http://domain.com/images/";
  var pathPrefix_link = "http://domain.com/pages/";

  var menuItems = [
["text", "index.html", "icon1.gif", "icon2.gif"],
];

So, link path will be look so:
http://domain.com/pages/index.html

Images paths will be look so:
http://domain.com/images/icon1.gif
http://domain.com/images/icon2.gif

Please, try to use these parameters.


Q: Im working on a menu with your program, and am unable to make the javascript sticky menu save the hover states after you move off the navigation item and onto its child nav items.

For example

Example Nav item 1
-Example Sub Nav item 1
-Example Sub Nav item 2
-Example Sub Nav item 3

When I hover on the Example Nav Item 1, the hover state works, but when I move my mouse down (Im using a horizontal javascript sticky menu) to select Example Sub Nav item 1, I want the hover state to stay selected on the "parent" Nav Item. Is this possible? What is the variable you have to change to accomplish this?

A: Yes, it's possible, please use

  var saveNavigationPath = 1; The javascript sticky menu keeps items highlighted during menu navigation.
0 - disabled, 1 - enabled (default).



Q: I see that you have the demo of the menu working over a frame so that it displays over the lower frame, vertical top to bottom.
However I have played around with your demo and can't seem to replicate the same feature.
Could you please tell me what I have to set to make the easy dropdown menu float over the lower framed window?

A: To initialize the cross frame menu call dm_initFrame() function instead of standard dm_init() function within data.js file:

dm_initFrame(framesetID, mainFrameInd, subFrameInd, orientation);

framesetID - id attribute of the frameset;
mainFrameInd - index of the main frame (where the top-menu is placed), >=0;
subFrameInd - index of the subframe (where the submenus will be shown), >=0;
orientation - frame orientaion: 0 - top-to-bottom, 1 - left-to-right; 2 - bottom-to-top; 3 - right-to-left.

For example, for the following structure:

<frameset id="frmSet" rows="185,*">
<frame id="frame1" src="cross-frame-horizontal-1.htm">
<frame id="frame2" name="testlink.htm" scrolling="no">
</frameset>

the dm_initFrame() function call at the end of data.js file will look like:

dm_initFrame("frmSet", 0, 1, 0);