Link-based Menu position relative to link

[barneson]

I am activating a popup menu with the OnMouseOver function. I would like for the menu to popup near the linked text.

How do I accomplish this without setting the absolute position of the menu in the menu_array3.js file? I realize that this would do the trick, but I would have to reposition the menu every time that I added or subtracted copy from the web page.

Is there a way to open a popup menu which is positioned relative to the cursor or to the text to which I have applied the OnMouseOver function?

[mjrogan]

Is there anyone who has done this that could share? Thanks!

[kevin3442]

The menu has a built-in function called popup(). Pass the name of the menu you want to open as a string in the function's first parameter.

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popup("menuname")

will open the menu named "menuname" at its preassigned position.

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popup("menuname",1)

will open the named menu at the current mouse pointer position.

This should be fine for most text-based or image-based links. If you'd like a little more control, you could try some additional code I wrote to extend the menu's positioning capabilities. You can download the add-on code as well as some examples and docuementation here.

Hope that helps,

Kevin

[andrew]

Hi, is this tool also capable of using CSS positioning? I want to get rid of the frames in my page, so I want to link the menu-items to a certain ID class which I defined in a seperate CSS file. This means that I only have to maintain one single page which displays all links in a certain area on that page.

Please check http://www.avdwal.nl/altius4/menu/menu.htm.

[andrew]

sorry, without the dot at the end, so http://www.avdwal.nl/altius4/menu/menu.htm

Kind regards,
Andre