Creating DHTML Menus in FrontPage 2003

[Jim Buyens]

I've posted a procedure that (hopefully) describes how to
create DHTML menus in FrontPage 2003. Here's the URL.

http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=28

I would appreciate any feedback you have time to collect
and send, especially errors or omissions. To send mail,
click the link titled, "Comment On This Article," in the
top right corner of the Web page.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Troubleshooting Microsoft FrontPage 2002
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
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[Bill Somogyi]

Jim:

Pretty thorough. I tried a quick one using images since you scared me off
using text with your intro. Here's my result:
http://realdrawcafe.com/jb/index.htm

Question? I didn't play long with it and I'm being lazy. How would you
attach a style to the Transparent gif Behavior to change the cursor so the
hand doesn't show?

Suggestion: You may want to suggest when using the transparent gif method
that folks include the imagetoolbar no meta if they are using a large one.

Otherwise by the second or third behavior it became automatic. About the
only thing I would mess up was forgetting to change the onclick.

Thanks for posting it.

Have Fun Bill

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Did you also look at
http://www.sharepointcustomization.com/resources/codesamples.htm




| I've posted a procedure that (hopefully) describes how to
| create DHTML menus in FrontPage 2003. Here's the URL.
|
| http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=28
|
| I would appreciate any feedback you have time to collect
| and send, especially errors or omissions. To send mail,
| click the link titled, "Comment On This Article," in the
| top right corner of the Web page.
|
| Jim Buyens
| Microsoft FrontPage MVP
| http://www.interlacken.com
| Author of:
| *========----------
| |\=========------------
| || Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
| || Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
| || Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
| || Troubleshooting Microsoft FrontPage 2002
| || Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
| || (All from Microsoft Press)
| |/=========------------
| *========----------
|
|

 

[Jim Buyens]

Jim:

Pretty thorough. I tried a quick one using images since you scared me off
using text with your intro. Here's my result:
http://realdrawcafe.com/jb/index.htm

Question? I didn't play long with it and I'm being lazy. How would you
attach a style to the Transparent gif Behavior to change the cursor so the
hand doesn't show?

Good catch. Actually, there's another problem with the transparent
GIF: you can't click ordinary hyperlinks that lie behind it!

The fix for that is to start out with the transparent GIF hidden, then
show the GIF whenever you show a menu leaf, then hide it when you hide
all the menu leaves. I believe this fix will solve the mousepointer
issue as well.

I'll be updating the procedure within a day or so.

Suggestion: You may want to suggest when using the transparent gif method
that folks include the imagetoolbar no meta if they are using a large one.

Ugh. This is another good catch, but I think:
<img src="spacer.gif" galleryimg="no">
is a better choice in ths case than
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">

(Thanks to http://www.webdevtips.com/webdevtips/developer/imagebar.shtml)

Otherwise by the second or third behavior it became automatic. About the
only thing I would mess up was forgetting to change the onclick.

I know; I hate when that happens.

Thanks for posting it.

Have Fun Bill

Thanks.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
*========----------
|\=========------------
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Troubleshooting Microsoft FrontPage 2002
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
|/=========------------
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