www.apple.com style menu - is this possible?

blaine · Post by **blaine** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 11:35 pm

I can see this component is very flexible and I'm working my way thru the examples. I was wondering if it would be possible to create a menu like http://www.apple.com uses.

What I wanted was a way to have the active tab look like it is part of the lower table area where I could have context actions or additional buttons that would appear depending on the selection.

I would be generating the menu from PHP and can therefor alter the layout but would it be possible to have it look like the lower table flows into the active tab?

Thanks.

Post by **John** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 11:54 pm

Yes, you could do that. Obviously it would be graphics-based, but this system allows for a graphical main menu and code-generated sub-menus dropped from that (plus a lot of other things). There a a lot of different ways this can be done.

See http://westcgi.west.asu.edu/sai/ for a simple example of just that.

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:29 am

Making a horizontal submenu is possible too, although I'm not sure what alignment you would use there.
maz

blaine · Post by **blaine** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:14 am

I'd prefer that it not be graphics based and or min graphics for the corners possibly for the tabs. If the tabs are CSS then I can generate the labels dynamically which is my goal.

I was looking at this CSS based tabbed menu
http://ww2.netpenny.net/~bcreswell/My_U ... cTabs.html

I may have missed an example that showed how to do a menu like that tabbed version.

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:19 am

You can use background images with text on top.

So long as each main menu item has a link it is possible to tab through them, but I don't think that's what you meant.

Or you could use a css background and just place the menu text on top.

Or there is linking to graphics for the popup.

Have a look at the different menu styles to see which one might work for you.

maz