How to Create a Cross-Frame Vertical Navigation Menu

[sharsy]

Hello,

I'm currently creating a new version of our internal office intranet
using Microsoft FrontPage and one of the features I would like to us
is a vertical navigation menu of sorts using Java/DHTML - the intranet
document is frames based so I would need the menu that appears to be
able to display over the top of the frame beside it.

I'm using a frames page that has 4 parts - a top banner, three frames
underneath this - the left hand side is the
navigation menu, the middle one is the body and the right hand side is
a links menu. When an option is chosen from the left hand side
navigation menu, I would like just the middle body frame to change
only.

What i'm looking for is some script that I can wack into FrontPage
that can do the three things:
- Vertical Navagation Menu that displays the submenu to the right
- Cross-Frame capability - so the submenu displayed on the right
appears over the top of the adjacent fram
- When you click on a link from the submenu, the middle frame on the
page changes.

If someone can help me with sourcing some script that would be greatly
appreciated!

Thank you!

 

[Trevor Lawrence]

sharsy,

I have read this post, but using frames is no longer a strong point with me.

If I can help, I will, but others may be better able to do so

 

[Ronx]

Can't be done.
A frame is a window, and all content (including fly out menus), will be
constrained to that window, even if it means extending the window in one
direction or other - in other words adding scroll bars. DHTML menus
will not cross frame boundaries.

You could use a menu that opens downwards - as each leaf opens it pushes
the menu items below it downwards. An example of this is the folder
list in FrontPage.

Take a look at http://www.treemenu.net/

 

[Marindi]

I have the exact same problem as you... have to re-do intranet page with
similar type of frames layout, also wanted menu to display over other frames,
click on menu to open contents in middle frame, etc...

See my thread below (Drop down is not displaying over frames 10/9/2008) -
I've had some very useful feedback and help. Gonna have to re-do quite a lot
of pages, but at least it will look and work the way I want it to... once I
get it right... Good luck!