Menu Ids

nsuk · Post by **nsuk** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 7:42 am

I am wondering how you can access the menus using javascript. Basically I have a menu across the top of the page, and depending upon which area of the site you are in the relavent menu item has a background image (using css).

What I want to do is turn off the image when you mouse over another menu item, but return the image when you move away from the menu. I imagine that I simple want to write a javscript function that changes the css style of all menu items (apart from the mousedover one) but for this do I not need to know the menu id so that I can reference it.

I can email people the url of the site if they want to take a look but it is on my adsl machine so would rather not post it publicly.

Thanks

J

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 7:59 am

I'm thinking the closest built into the menu is onstyle and offstyle. Give these a name to reference in your style sheet.

Do check the milonic site for js references under support.
And search the forum for ideas on making js work.

maz

nsuk · Post by **nsuk** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 8:07 am

I have already looked over the site and the quick reference but can't seem to find anything. Do you have a link to where the documentation explains how the menu items are referenced.

I have already used the on/offstyle but I want to change the style for all menus apart from the current one the user is over, which this doesn't cover. I want to use on/off function and am happy to write the javascript but I need to know how to reference the menu items.

For example the menu is something like:

[products] | services | contact | about

where the user is currently in the products section of the website.

The user mouses over services and you get the following:

products | [services] | contact | about

however once he mousesout from services the menu returns to how it was before:

[products] | services | contact | about

I have used [] to indicate the use of a different css style

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 9:26 am

Did you look at these:

http://milonic.com/menu_methods.php

http://milonic.com/menu_variables.php

I can't help here.

maz

nsuk · Post by **nsuk** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 5:05 pm

Yes, but that doesn't seem to help. All I want is to be able to do:

document.getElementById(FROM-MILONIC-SOMEWHERE).className but everything I have tried just bums out in the javascript with 'no attribute'.

I have tried _m[0][6]/_m[1][6] etc but apparently this is wrong.

Post by **Ruth** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 4:32 pm

I'm not sure this will help, but it does talk about the internals of getting menus, by name, by object. etc.

http://milonic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3632

Ruth