Name that code!

[Minty Electronica]

I'm right now stuck on creating a part of a layout. One thing I really want to put on it is, well, missing, and I don't know where to look for it.

Let me describe it to you fairly simply. You see the menu bar at the top of your page? The one that starts with "File"? Well, I'm looking for something like that, only for a webpage -- as in, something that allows a menu to be pulled down without being as blatant as a full drop-down box. I'd like for it to be activated by mouse-over, though I'll take whatever I can get.

So, does a script like that actually exist (or at least what language should I aim for in a search), or will I have to resort to using drop-down boxes? If the latter's the case, then can anyone give me tips on how to make said drop-down boxes less noticable so it's not obvious that they are what they are? (I've tried altering the code for a drop-down box in many different ways, but the results always came out pretty obvious.)

 

[Koroku]

No idea if such a script exists, but if it does, I'm pretty sure it'd be DHTML.

http://dynamicdrive.com/

 

[Zhen Lin]

Hmm, popup-menu-driven navigation... well, yes, it's doable via DHTML. But it adds a bit of complexity to your code.

 

[Eevee]

I have that, using CSS, but it doesn't work in IE as it requires using :hover on elements besides <a>.

the HTML is just nested unordered lists containing links, and I think the CSS is less than ten lines.

 

[Zhen Lin]

Yes, that's a non-DHTML way of doing it. I had some problems with the menu-positioning though.