Features

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

Easy Setup

De Luxe Tuner. GUI interface to create your dijit menu horizontal menus easily and in no time Sensible menu parameters for manual editing

Sample Horizontal Menu Bar Dijit Menu Horizontal

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

Professional Look-n-feel

Entirely customizable look-n-feel A lot of pre-designed dijit menu horizontal samples Hundreds of visual effects Custom CSS styles can be applied for all menu settings

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!

2.0 Buttons by Web-Buttons.com v3.0.0

Recent Questions

Q: I’m very interested in your script of deluxe-menu.
I tryed your script out and have some questions now:

How do I highlight main menu items when I selected a main category?
How do I highlight submenu items when I selected a sub category?
How can I have a submenu unfoldet when I selected the matching main category?

I would be pleased to have answers to my questions as soon as possible.
Thank you for support!


A: The menu has only two states normal and mouseover. We'll try to add the pressed state in the future.

You can set a pressed item using Javascript API:

function dm_ext_setPressedItem (menuInd, submenuInd, itemInd, recursion)

Sets a current pressed item.
menuInd - index of a menu on a page, >= 0.
submenuInd - index of a submenu, >= 0.
itemInd - index of an item, >=0.
recursion = true/false - highlight parent items.

But notice, to use dm_ext_setPressedItem() you should know ID of selected item and subitem.
You can't get this ID after you reload your page. That is why you should write your own code on PHP.

Q: I am using deluxe menus and have a problem with images not downloading when the page loads. Is there a way to instruct the menus to preload the images instead of waiting until a person mouse overs the basic drop down menu for the first time?

I am using images that are called via stylesheet.

A: Please try to add the following basic drop down menu parameter:

  var dm_writeAll = 1;

Q: We are unable to get sub-menus to appear on page load or rather simulate a "windows application style menu".

How can we in combination with the java menu api function dm_ext_setPressedItem get the associated sub-menu to display? This function simply sets the item to "pressed" rather than actually showing the sub-menu. Attempts at beginning an item's text value with "+" only works with Deluxe Tree.

Again, we are trying to use the menu not only as a navigator but also as a visual aid for the user to determine what page they are viewing. For example, when a user clicks on a menu item and that page loads, the menu should display the top-level item pressed, the sub-menu group, and the item pressed.

Furthermore, it would also be useful if we could then "unlock" the pressed items and navigate the menu under normal circumstances.

If there are no existing "quick" functions to accomplish this, could you please point out the function in dmenu.js or another engine file that initiates the display of sub-menus, we could then force the menu to select a top-level item in the onload event thus showing a top-level item pressed along with it's related sub-menu.

A: Unfortunately Deluxe Menu doesn't have such a feature now. It is notpossible to set parent item highlighted, expanded submenu group andhighlighted submenu item.

You can do it using Deluxe Tree now only.

Q: Could you please advise how to stop cascading html menus going under a swf in Firefox?

A: To overlap your flash file you should add opaque parametersto your flash, for example:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0"
width="566" height="250" title="Intro">
<param name="movie" value="/includes/banner_final3d.swf" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque">
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="/includes/banner_final3d.swf" quality="high" wmode="opaque" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="566" height="250"></embed>
</object>

You can find more info about menu parameters on our website:
http://deluxe-menu.com/objects-overlapping-sample.html