Re: dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 13:28 +0000, MEM wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm on my way to build my first dynamic menu using php. > However, each time I say this, people start jumping at me crying out loud: > "Jquery" . > I don't need js for this. Really. (At least, this is what I believe). > > So I was wondering if It's possible to accomplish it, by using css and php > only. > > > If so, I'm wondering if something like this it's a good way for doing this: > > 1) > Generate a multidimensional array from database table containing categories > and subcategories. > > 2) > Create a css file with two classes one that shows, another that hides. > > 3) > Grab that array and: > 3.1) print it recursively (no idea how to accomplish this) > 3.2) print it with some sort of class="showThis" inside the generated html > element. > 3.3) make a conditional somewhere (I really don't know where, and this may > be related with the recursion doubt), in order to display the children > elements, only when we click the parent element. > > And here resides my main doubt: Is the point 3.3 feasible without the use of > js? > > > > I just need some directions please, > > Regards, > Márcio > > > Everything there is feasible without Javascript except for the clicking part, which is pretty essential to what you want. Pure CSS-only menus are still unavailable because of IE, so using some Javascript is your only option really. Is there a particular reason you are shying away from Javascript in this case? There are ways you can construct drop-down menus in a way that if Javascript is unavailable, then they fall back to becoming a bog-standard navigation bar. Also, before anyone mentions them, <select> lists are not the same thing as a drop-down menu, and navigating to different parts of a document upon changing the selected option is actually breaking their default behavior, and can become confusing to people who expect them to work as select lists. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk