Could someone help me with this code
I noticed the .this.style.backgroundcolor="""" but I dont understand why there are three periods. This is from the site webmasterforums.com
ALso, I noticed from their code that they use a javascript method of making their menu at the top from this code
<script TYPE="text/javascript" LANGUAGE="javascript" SRC="/include/loadmenu.js"></script>
Are there any good resources to learn how to make javascript menu's. Is an advantage of using them loading time, and browser compatibility?
Sorry for the multiple questions
Bryan
pmj7 posted this at 17:22 — 23rd December 2002.
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Is webmasterforums.com a typo? Neither this site, nor the one you list has the code you describe. '"' are called quotes, not periods.
I'd suggest you visit http://www.irt.org and read up on JavaScript, they probably have something on menus there. You should never rely on JavaScript to do something, because a visitor's browser might not support it or even have it turned off. The one advantage of using JavaScript to create your navigation is that you can update it by changing a single file. If you don't have server support (PHP, etc), then this is the only way it can be done without frames.
Peter
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dk01 posted this at 17:54 — 23rd December 2002.
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.this.style.backgroundcolor=""
should actually be
this.style.backgroundcolor="";
"this" - the current element on the page, in your case its a tr.
"style" - the object of style refers to the css properties of the element "this". So "this.style" gets all of the css properties of the element .
"backgroundColor" this is the property of the background color.
The periods between all the objects just show that you are becoming more specific. (Starting off with all the properties of the object -> going to just the css properties -> going to just the backgroundColor css property.
Hope that helps. Sorry its not so clear.
-dk
Suzanne posted this at 18:37 — 23rd December 2002.
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Peter, I'm surprised at your response...
He was referring to the periods, not the quotation marks.
jag5311 posted this at 23:44 — 23rd December 2002.
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Thanks, that clears a few things up.
Bryan
ShoelessNet posted this at 05:36 — 24th December 2002.
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I agree - and the webmasterforums.com does indeed have that code, it's for the side navigation and it changes the background color of each link onmouseover. Such a thing could be handled in CSS rather than javascript, but to each his own.
Tiffany
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