[Web4lib] CSS Drop Down Menus

[Junior Tidal]

I've been researching a javascript free workaround for IE, but to no
avail. It looks like I may have to compromise and use a CSS/javascript
hybrid.

thanks for your help, everyone!

Junior

Junior Tidal
Web Services and Multimedia Librarian
CUNY New York City College of Technology
300 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11210
718.260.5481

>>> "Engwall, Keith D" <kengwall at catawba.edu> 11/17/2006 11:18:01 AM
>>>
Our site uses CSS Drop Down Menus.  They use a simple unordered list
and some CSS.  There is a tiny bit of javascript to compensate for IE
6's lack of support of :hover for list items, but that's it (I haven't
tested to see if it's fixed in IE7), and as far as I know, unless you
make things a heck of a lot more complicated one way or another, there's
really no good way around that.  On the Mozilla side it's completely
CSS-driven.

We based our dropdowns on the excellent article in A List Apart on
Horizontal Dropdowns:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/horizdropdowns

(I had trouble getting into A List Apart today, so you might want to
google "A List Apart Dropdown" and read the cached version of the
article)

We made some modifications, which I document in our library blog
entry:

http://libweb.catawba.edu/blog/?p=10#more-10 

I'm interested to see what others have to say on this, whether anyone
knows of a truly javascript-free solution for IE.

Keith


Keith Engwall
Head of Library Systems and Technology
Catawba College Library
kengwall at catawba.edu 
http://www.lib.catawba.edu 

It is not enough to do your best: you must know what to do, and THEN do
your best.
-- W. Edwards Deming
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Subject: [Web4lib] CSS Drop Down Menus

Hi all, 

I was wondering if anyone had any links for good CSS Drop Down menus.
I'm trying to find something that's compatible with both Mozilla and
IE
that doesn't use javascript. Most of the ones I've found either look
great in Mozilla, but dont' work in IE, or use javascript. Thanks your
help.

Regards,

Junior Tidal
Web Services and Multimedia Librarian
CUNY New York City College of Technology
300 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11210
718.260.5481
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