How to make a Dynamic Drop Down Menu ?
Hey everyone , i wanted to make a dynamic drop menu , but could figure out how to do it .
I want something like select a car make and then select a model and then a year and then when you press go it take you to that specific page .
Thanx y'all
webwiz posted this at 00:32 — 23rd June 2009.
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You are all set then.
Seriously though, my advice is - don't. For the sake of your visitor's sanity and your own. You'll need to provide a landing page to list the model and year to those visitors that don't have scripting enabled anyway, so it's not worth the effort IMO.
There is a reason that successful sites like Amazon do not use them.
Cordially, David
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davecoventry posted this at 06:46 — 23rd June 2009.
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David,
This has been something that has concerned me for a while: how do people with scripting turned off in their browsers manage to get around the web nowadays?
Is it worth catering for them?
When I started coding web pages ten years ago I was always careful that I catered for pre HTML4 browsers. I always reckoned that there was bound to be someone using Windows 3 or something whose operating system would not run a reasonably current browser.
Today we are encouraged to adopt CSS and abandon deprecated HTML.
If we are going to ignore people with older browsers (maybe from third world countries and perhaps Eastern Europe), does it make sense to cater explicitly for people that have deliberately, compromised the functionality of their own browsers?
I visit slashdot.org often enough to know that this is regarded as a smart and computer-savvy thing to do, but it does strike me as taking paranoia to extremes.
And I've used browsers without script capabilities like Lynx and Epiphany so I know that the bulk of the 'net is pretty much closed off to them (please don't get me started on flash based sites!) and I feel that there must be a big incentive for these guys to pull their necks out of the sand, smell the coffee and switch on scripting!
zerocool posted this at 21:57 — 23rd June 2009.
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Thanks David and dave
on giving me an insight , i was working 10 hours just to make a dynamic drop menu , although i have intermediate experience i understood that this wasnt easy for many experienced persons .
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davecoventry posted this at 22:29 — 23rd June 2009.
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There are plenty of resources for dropdown menus on the web.
I'm just not sure what would suit you. Are you putting together a CSS page? are you using a CMS like Drupal? If it's the former, Google gives this: http://www.google.com/search?q=css+dropdown+menus&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t...
Second one on the list:
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/auto_hide/
I'm not sure what resources you have: if you don't have Dreamweaver (I don't, I'm afraid) and you want a WYSIWYG editor, I use Kompozer for throwing a basic design together before I start hand-coding my HTML. http://kompozer.net/ It's free, but it's not perfect.
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