- Personal CSS styles for separate menu elements - Inactive/Disabled items - Search feature - add the search area in the menu and type symbols. - Keyboard navigation - press Ctrl+F2 to enter the top menu - Deluxe Tuner - visual interface to create and modify dhtml menus easily and in no time. - Relative/Absolute menu position - 85% transparency for sub menus - Cross-frame support - menus work on frameset-based pages
Build right-click menus for your site. For this purpose you should appoint a peculiar method for the object you want. The current X,Y of the mouse pointer or your own ones can be used for the context menu.
Design menus absolutely based on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). It is possible to apply the personal CSS styles for every elements of the menu.
When the submenu is bigger than the visible page area, the size of submenu will be automatically decreased. To view all the submenu items you do not need to use scrollbars or something like that - just put your mouse to the bottom of a submenu and it will be automagically scrolled! You can also define width and height for each submenu.
Q: I am using Javascript Menu. Deluxe Menu. v1.12 How can I upgrade to v.2.0?
A:How to upgrade to v2.00 --------------------------------------------------------------- You can download the licensed engine .js files from the same link in your license message.Deluxe Menu v2.00 has new parameters and features. To upgrade to v2.00 you should do the following.
Step 1. 1.1 For Windows users a. Run Deluxe Tuner v2.0 (can be found in the trial menu package v2.0 http://deluxe-menu.com/deluxe-menu.zip). b. Open menu data file (.js file where menu parameters are placed): select File/OpenЕ c. Save the file: select File/Save, then click "No" button when the dialog box appears.
1.2 For other OS users a. Open menu data file (.js file where menu parameters are placed) in a text editor. b. Make sure that the following variables exist in the data file:
var keystrokes = 0; var dm_focus = 1; var dm_actKey = 113;
var dynamic = 0; var smHideOnClick = 1; var itemAlignTop = 'left'; var smSmartScroll = 1;
var dmAJAX = 0; var dmAJAXCount = 30; var dmRTL = 0; var dmObjectsCheck = 0; var menuBackRepeat = "repeat"; var menuHeight = ""; var transDuration2 = 200;
If one of the variables doesn't exist - add it at the beginning of the file.
c. Save the file.
Step 2. Now open HTML-page that contains Deluxe Menu.
Step 3. Replace existent tags of the menu by the following code:
<noscript><a href="http://deluxe-menu.com">Javascript Menu by Deluxe-Menu.com</a></noscript>
Step 4. Save HTML-page.
Step 5. New engine v2.00 has 7 .js files. They are: - dmenu.js - dmenu4.js - dmenu_add.js - dmenu_dyn.js - dmenu_key.js - dmenu_cf.js (new v2.00) - dmenu_popup.js (new v2.00)
Replace all old .js files by the files from v2.00.
Try that.
Q: Is there a way to specify certian font styles escpecailly a hanging indent on the text of the navigation menubar?
A:You should use Individual styles, for example: var itemStyles = [ ["fontStyle=bold 12px Arial,Helvetica", "fontDecoration=none,underline"], // style 0 ["fontStyle=normal 12px Arial,Helvetica", "fontDecoration=underline,underline"], // style 1 ["fontStyle=normal 14px Arial,Helvetica", "fontDecoration=none,none"], // style 2 ];
And assign styles to your items: var menuItems = [ ["1 Item","index.php","","","","_self","0",,,], ["2 Item","","","","","_self","1",,,], ["|Submenu Item","","","","","_self","2",,,], ...
Q: Do I need to replace the menudir/ in the code with the name of the folder I have placed the .js files?
So, you should install your menu in the following way: <head> <!-- Deluxe Menu --> <noscript><a href="http://deluxe-menu.com">Javascript Menu by Deluxe-Menu.com</a></noscript> <script type="text/javascript"> var dmWorkPath = "deluxe-menu_files/";</script> <script type="text/javascript" src="deluxe-menu_files/dmenu.js"></script> <!-- (c) 2006, http://deluxe-menu.com --> </head>
Q: Is there any way of asigning the background color of the submenu (I onlyneed one level of nesting menus) different from the background color of thedhtml rollover?
A: Create Individual Submenu Style and assign it for the first item in that case:
