Drop-Down Menus

[Shlup]

I am crabby. I'm trying to get a fairly simple drop-down menu system for my site, like a Java one or something, and the world is being a poop.

Everytime I find a free script there's a catch... One of them made it so every time I click anything their webpage opens. Another would only let me build the menu, but wouldn't give me the code unless I gave them $100 or some poophead amount. Another was like "omg I sux," and a couple more were so complicated I was like nooooo.

So if anyone knows of a way for me to make a drop-down menu for my site (with submenus) without learning a new computer language I will weep for joy. If someone made one for me I would make a banner in your image and hang it in my car window.

I doubt I'll get a good response for this but I've been trying to get this going for two days now and I think a chunk of brain just fell out of my ear.

[Dr Unne]

It can be done with CSS, in which case it probably won't work in IE. Like this: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html

Or it can be done with Javascript, in which case it will probably be sucky and annoying and will involve you learning another programming language (and not a fun one, either).

[Shlup]

Wont work in IE... I'm sure my visitors will love that. :p

I found a few cracked apps on BitTorrent, so hopefully one of those will work. One program I had was really nice, but wont let me even see the code without monies. *cwy*

[Samuraid]

Are they distributed in a Java .class file? If so, send it to me and I might be able to decompile it. :D

Then it would be a pretty simple job to remove the extra stuff.

[Jojee]

http://dynamicdrive.com has workable dropdown menu scripts.

[Dr Unne]

Using Java (Java that is, not Javascript) for dropdown menus would be overkill in the extreme. I've never seen such a thing.

[Shlup]

Shoot... I think I deleted the Java one. That was the one that was opening the creator's web page with every click. I tried to change that myself, but then I was like "hey, this is complicated. dam."

I'm gonna try some of the ones on dynamicdrive, 'cause all the ones on hotscripts are eeevil.

[Endless]

The key is CSS plus a touch of Javascript. I find this <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/horizdropdowns/">How-to</a> quite complete and it explains step by step what to do and change to first make the menu then make it work with IE (and it does, tested with IE the "prettier one"). Also see <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/">this one</a>.