Re: Drop down navigation...

by "Cyanide _7" <leo7278(at)hotmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Feb 2000 02:11:06 CST
To:	mwilson(at)sigmapath.com
Cc:	hwg-languages(at)hwg.org
	todo: View Thread, Original
i have a couple of changes to recommend. first of all, you can keep both 
menus in one form and not even worry about the names. merely send *this*, 
the menu's object, to the function. also, do not assign a string value to 
the location object, but to its href property. try this:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>TEST</TITLE>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Hide the script from old browsers --

function surfto(menu) {
  if(menu.options[menu.selectedIndex].value != 0)
    location.href = menu.options[menu.selectedIndex].value;
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>

</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
    <BR>
    <BR>
      <FORM>
        <SELECT onChange="surfto(this);" SIZE=1>
          <OPTION VALUE="0" SELECTED>---choose a link---</OPTION>
          <OPTION
VALUE="http://www.sigmapath.net">SigmaPath.net</OPTION>
          <OPTION
VALUE="http://www.sigmapath.com">SigmaPath.com</OPTION>
        </SELECT>
    <BR>
    <BR>
        <SELECT onChange="surfto(this);" SIZE=1>
          <OPTION VALUE="0" SELECTED>--choose a link--</OPTION>
          <OPTION VALUE="http://www.yahoo.com">test1</OPTION>
          <OPTION VALUE="http://www.excite.com">test2</OPTION>
        </SELECT>
      </FORM>
    <BR>
    <BR>
</BODY>
</HTML>

the nice thing about this script is it can run any number of menus merely by 
sending the menus object to the script. - Cyanide_7

>
>Hi again,
>
>ok.. well I checked out a few places that were recommended and didn't
>find anything I could use. I did however come up with something that I
>would like your collective opinions on.
>
>As javascript goes... how solid is the following script? It seems to
>work in NN3, NN4, IE4 and IE5. I would also like to know if anyone has
>IE3 and can try it out for me. It seems to do what I want and does not
>give me any errors, but due to the importance of the site this will be
>placed on, I can't take any chances. Is there anything I can add to
>improve the functionality of this script?
>
>here's what I have so far:
><HTML>
><HEAD>
><TITLE>TEST</TITLE>
>
><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
><!-- Hide the script from old browsers --
>
>  function surfto(form) {
>         var myindex=form.select1.selectedIndex
>         if (form.select1.options[myindex].value != "0") {
>          location=form.select1.options[myindex].value;}
>}
>//-->
></SCRIPT>
>
></HEAD>
><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
>     <BR>
>     <BR>
>       <FORM NAME="form1" >
>         <SELECT NAME="select1" onChange="surfto(this.form)" SIZE=1>
>           <OPTION VALUE="0" SELECTED>---choose a link---</OPTION>
>           <OPTION
>VALUE="http://www.sigmapath.net">SigmaPath.net</OPTION>
>           <OPTION
>VALUE="http://www.sigmapath.com">SigmaPath.com</OPTION>
>         </SELECT>
>       </FORM>
>     <BR>
>     <BR>
>       <FORM NAME="form1" >
>         <SELECT NAME="select1" onChange="surfto(this.form)" SIZE=1>
>           <OPTION VALUE="0" SELECTED>--choose a link--</OPTION>
>           <OPTION VALUE="http://www.yahoo.com">test1</OPTION>
>           <OPTION VALUE="http://www.excite.com">test2</OPTION>
>         </SELECT>
>       </FORM>
>     <BR>
>     <BR>
></BODY>
></HTML>
>
>All help is much appreciated folks!,
>
>X
>
>Ches wrote:
> >
> > Yep, go to www.bratta.com all his stuff is cross compatible. :)
> >
>
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>
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