Re: Making drop-downs move with different screen resolutions

by Gerhard Schoening <g.sch(at)onlinehome.de>

 Date:  Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:14:47 +0100
 To:  "Jim H" <jim(at)haslam.com>
 Cc:  hwg-software(at)mail.hwg.org
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Hi Jim,

On Monday, January 14, 2002 at 18:18 you wrote:

Jim> Hello:

Jim> Forgive me it this is redundant, I tried posting this to the basic's list 
Jim> and didn't get much help. 

Jim> I need to know if there is a way to make drop-down menus (like the 
Jim> javascript or DHTML layered menus) "smart" to follow the change 
Jim> in position when you use an .align="center" tag for a main layout 
Jim> table to display the web site. 

Jim> The client insists that the main layout of the web site be centered 
Jim> on the screen, and wants drop-downs in a horizontal menu bar 
Jim> across the top of his site. My problem is that I won't know what the 
Jim> location should be for the positions of the drop downs (the sub 
Jim> menus or layers) since the screen resolution settings would 
Jim> change the pages location depending on what the resolution the 
Jim> visitors settings were set to.

Jim> Anyone know of such a script, tutorial or solution (...other than 
Jim> telling my client to -- bite me!) I tried several searches and came up 
Jim> blank on this.

Jim> TIA for any info you can pass along!

Jim> Jim H

Maybe

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/dropcontent.htm

can help you? Look at the "Notes:" on bottom of page (centered
table!).

http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/column52/2.html

is just another one for "a permanently-visible horizontal menu
centered on your page".


HTH,

Gerhard
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