Keeping Menu Parameters out of the HTML

gnevius · Post by **gnevius** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 8:37 pm

Hello Folks,
I am working with the menu system and I am wondering instead of having the menu parameters inside my html, can I just have the same parameters for formatting of the menus only in the mmenu_array.js? I really would like to streamline my HTML docs and keep them free of all this code and if I can draw from the .js file for formatting, that would be great. I have done this before with another menu system, but could not figure out how to add sub-menus, so I am trying this menu system instead.
Thank a lot for any help that you may offer.
Cheers!
Greg

Post by **John** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 10:16 pm

Hi Greg -

What exactly do you have in the HTML? You should be able to do everything right in the array.

Got a URL handy?

gnevius · Post by **gnevius** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 3:27 am

John,
Thanks for your response. In my html document, I have the code from ////////////////////////////////////
// Editable properties START here //
////////////////////////////////////

down to the end where the code ends like this:

dumpmenus();

</script>

I would like to keep this code out of my document and call it from the mmenu_aray.js file only, but when I remove all of that code, I get an error. Can't figure out where I am going wrong.
Thanks for your time,
Greg

Post by **John** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 4:34 pm

Hi Greg -

OK, got it.

The first problem I see is this. You have...

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dumpmenus(); 

</script>

Get that </script> out of there

The array should end with just a dumpmenus() (note no ';').

Call everything from your HTML page(s) like this...

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<script language="Javascript" src="menu_array.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script language="Javascript" src="mmenu.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Put that inside the <head></head>.

Dat's all der is - ain't no mo'

:mrgreen:

gnevius · Post by **gnevius** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 9:35 pm

John,
Thanks for all of your help. I finally got it!!!
Take care, I appreciate your support!
Regards,
Greg

Post by **John** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 12:27 am

Greg -

Great - glad to hear it

I think you'll find most of the folks around here to be helpful. It's Andy's fault - he's so d--n helpful himself it just rubs off