Javascript Hoirzontal Menu

by: Caleb Jonasson - October 8th, 2009   Add Comment

javascript_horizontal_menu

In order to create a proper working javascript based horizontal menu you need to have all of the necessary files. These files consist of :

/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css
/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js

index.php
main.css

The first section of code is going to be the SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css

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@charset "UTF-8";
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
width: auto;
}
ul.MenuBarActive
{
z-index: 1000;
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
width: 8em;
float: left;
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: 8.2em;
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
{
left: auto;
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
{
width: 8.2em;
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
{
position: absolute;
margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
{
left: auto;
top: 0;
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
{
border: 1px solid #CCC;
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
{
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-color: #4b4b4b;
padding: 0.2em 0.4em;
color: #ffffff;
text-decoration: none;
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
{
background-color: #4b4b4b;
color: #FFF;
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
{
background-color: #333366;
color: #ccccff;
}
ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe
{
position: absolute;
z-index: 1010;
}
@media screen, projection
{
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE
{
display: inline;
f\loat: left;
background: #4b4b4b;
}
}

The second file, SpryMenuBar.js looks like this.

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    var Spry;
    if(!Spry)
    {
    Spry = {};
    }
    if(!Spry.Widget)
    {
    Spry.Widget = {};
    }
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar = function(element, opts)
    {
    this.init(element, opts);
    };
 
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.init = function(element, opts)
    {
    this.element = this.getElement(element);
 
    this.currMenu = null;
 
    var isie = (typeof document.all != ‘undefined’ && typeof window.opera == ‘undefined’ && navigator.vendor != ‘KDE’);
    if(typeof document.getElementById == ‘undefined’ || (navigator.vendor == ‘Apple Computer, Inc.’ && typeof window.XMLHttpRequest == ‘undefined’) || (isie && typeof document.uniqueID == ‘undefined’))
    {
    return;
    }
    if(opts)
    {
    for(var k in opts)
    {
    var rollover = new Image;
    rollover.src = opts[k];
    }
    }
 
    if(this.element)
    {
    this.currMenu = this.element;
    var items = this.element.getElementsByTagName(‘li’);
    for(var i=0; i 0)
    {
    layers[0].parentNode.removeChild(layers[0]);
    }
    };
 
    Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.clearMenus = function(root)
    {
    var menus = root.getElementsByTagName(‘ul’);
    for(var i=0; i 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
 
    var hasSubMenu = false;
    if(menu)
    {
    this.addClassName(link, “MenuBarItemSubmenu”);
    hasSubMenu = true;
    }
 
    if(!isie)
    {
 
    listitem.contains = function(testNode)
    {
    if(testNode == null)
    {
    return false;
    }
    if(testNode == this)
    {
    return true;
    }
    else
    {
    return this.contains(testNode.parentNode);
    }
    };
    }
 
    var self = this;
 
    this.addEventListener(listitem, ‘mouseover’, function(e)
    {
    if(self.bubbledTextEvent())
    {
 
    return;
    }
    clearTimeout(closetime);
    if(self.currMenu == listitem)
    {
    self.currMenu = null;
    }
 
    self.addClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? “MenuBarItemSubmenuHover” : “MenuBarItemHover”);
    if(menu && !self.hasClassName(menu, “MenuBarSubmenuVisible”))
    {
    opentime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.showSubmenu(menu);}, 250);
    }
    }, false);
 
    this.addEventListener(listitem, ‘mouseout’, function(e)
    {
    if(self.bubbledTextEvent())
    {
 
    return;
    }
 
    var related = (typeof e.relatedTarget != ‘undefined’ ? e.relatedTarget : e.toElement);
    if(!listitem.contains(related))
    {
    clearTimeout(opentime);
    self.currMenu = listitem;
 
    self.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? “MenuBarItemSubmenuHover” : “MenuBarItemHover”);
    if(menu)
    {
    closetime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.hideSubmenu(menu);}, 600);
    }
    }
    }, false);
    };

Now you need your index.php. This is where the menu content will be.

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<link href=”main.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” />
<script src=”SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<link href=”SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” />
</head>
 
<body>
 
<div id=”container”>
<div id=”header”>
<h1>Header</h1>
 
<ul id=”MenuBar1″>
<li>
<div align=”center”><a href=”#”>simple</a></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align=”center”><a href=”#”>Smart</a></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align=”center”><a href=”#”>Tutorials</a>
<ul>
<li><a href=”#”>Photoshop</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Illustrator</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Flash</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Dreamweaver</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
<!– end #header –></div>
<div id=”mainContent”>
<h1> Main Content </h1>
<!– end #mainContent –></div>
<div id=”footer”>
<p>Footer</p>
<!– end #footer –></div>
<!– end #container –></div>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar(“MenuBar1″);
//–>
</script>
</body>
</html>

The last file that we need is the main.css file.

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@charset "utf-8";
body {
font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #666666;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
text-align: center;
color: #000000;
}
.oneColElsCtrHdr #container {
width: 46em;
background: #FFFFFF;
margin: 0 auto;
border: 1px solid #000000;
text-align: left;
}
.oneColElsCtrHdr #header {
background: #4b4b4b;
color: #ffffff;
padding: 0 10px 0 20px;
}
.oneColElsCtrHdr #header h1 {
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 0;
}
.oneColElsCtrHdr #mainContent {
padding: 0 20px;
background: #FFFFFF;
margin-top: 50px;
}
.oneColElsCtrHdr #footer {
padding: 0 10px;
background:#DDDDDD;
}
.oneColElsCtrHdr #footer p {
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 0;
}

Try it out by clicking here.

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Caleb Jonasson

About: Caleb Jonasson

I am a web application developer currently spending my days coding at work, completing contracts and running around with my Nikon. This is my primary place for updates and everything code, technology and database related.