I have deeply tried to build a DHTML/Javascript menu bar based on the Zope content rather than having a fixed (hard coded in javascript) menu content.

I generally try to stay away from the monstrosity of DHTML, and the quirkiness of JavaScript. But building popup or whatnot menus from CSS isn't very bad at all. The content generation is especially easy. You can very simply write a tree-walker in Zope to generate something like: <div id="menubar"> <div class="toplevel">Top Level A <span class="item">Content</span><span class="item">Content2</span> </div> <div class="toplevel">Top Level B <span class="item">Content</span><span class="item">Content2</span> </div> </div> (or if you really want to be clever, use unordered lists and anchor hrefs to look better in non-style browsers) and style the id of 'menubar', and classes 'toplevel', 'item', and maybe 'expandable item' to get a fully hierarchical popup menu system. Take a look at http://devedge.netscape.com/ for an example of the latter. There are other CSS sites around that would love to show you how also. --jcc

I've written a product that takes over these tasks fluently, based on a licensed javascript menu, that I code-named as "Pilot" (before I got to know a zope-related company, Pilot Systems, existed) ;) I'd like to release it but as it uses this licensed stuff, I think I can't, at least in its current version. Anyway I'm planning to release it independently of the javascript part, so that a user who already owns the code could upload it and then to perform the bindings to the product, manually. For more information, follow the link: http://www.zope.org/Members/ausum/Pilot/index_html Ausum ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gilles Lenfant" <gilles@pilotsystems.net> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:56 PM Subject: [Zope] DHTML Popup menu bar built from content

Hi,

I have deeply tried to build a DHTML/Javascript menu bar based on the Zope content rather than having a fixed (hard coded in javascript) menu content.

Have some of you experiences in building such stuffs ?

Thanks in advance for your tips

--Gilles

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