RE: [PHP] Generating foldout menus in php

>This may not be directly php related but I'm hoping that generating the >code with PHP will keep it on topic. > >I'm looking for a way to generate dropdown/foldout menus (horizontal >and >vertical) on the fly, but all the javascript solutions I've seen use >absolute or relative pixel positioning, which means I can't use them >because I don't know at the time of generating a specific menu item how >many pixels across or down the preceding items have already used. I'm >currently using a javascript menu that works really well, but all the >top-level menu items have to be preset with specific x-y pixel >coordinates, and all the subsequent items are then relative to the >top-level items. So I can generate the second-level and subsequent >items on the fly but not the top-level items. Is there a way to use css >or dhtml or something else (maybe something in javascript that I missed) to do this? > >Thanks >Arno Arno: There's really no way to do this just using php. I can envision a way to use php with a couple of other languages to provide drop-down and pop-out menus, but that would be more complicated than just using css with js, like so: http://sperling.com/examples/menuh/ http://sperling.com/examples/menuv/ Why complicate your life? Cheers, tedd -- Hi tedd Thanks, that's pretty much what I was looking for. I found something similar at cssplay, except the examples I saw didn't use .htc file. Like your examples the cssplay code only runs on IE5.5 and up (and other browsers). Not sure yet if that would be a problem. I don't have IE5 to test with, so I don't know if there's a graceful fallback that would still allow the user to navigate. As you said, it doesn't look like there's a solution to fit all browsers and versions. Cheers Arno