Milonic JavaScript Menu

Hi John,

The menus in the sample work because their X and Y coordinates are specified. Unfortunately for me, the locations of the HTML links on my page are dynamic, and therefore unpredictable. That's why I was encouraged to read that the command

onmouseover("mainmenu",1)

would cause the menu to ...

Hi,

I'm trying to get a menu to display when I move the mouse over an HTML link. I'm using this code:

onmouseover=popup("mainmenu",1) onmouseout=popdown()

When I move the mouse over the link, I get a JavaScript error that says "'MouseY' is undefined." How do I "define" MouseY?

Thanks.

Gary

Sorry, but no URL exists yet. The website I'm developing exists only on my laptop so far. I've set a variable to identify the proper root directory, and that works fine. I'll just have to remember to reset it when I eventually move the site to the Internet.

Thanks for your help!

Gary

Set up a variable in your data file that defines your ROOT directory.

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