?? A scrollable, expandable, drop-down menu ??

[MissouriTiger]

My dear fellow Tek-Tipians,

I have a rather unusual assignment. Our client has several html list-boxes on their website, which are all populated with entries from a database (ASP). One of these has over 200 items in the list.

The client wants to convert everything to dynamic drop-down menus. Since I have only been doing web development for a few months, this is my first time creating DHTML drop-down menus.

There are tons of examples on the web, and in some of my books, and I have created a basic one. But none of them cover all of the complexities that I have to deal with on this site.

First, the lists have to be expandable, because their are sublists with in lists. Second, sith 200 items in the list, obviously some kind of scrolling or paging type behavior is a necessity. So far, I have not been able to find an example of anything like this.

I realize it will probably be tricky, and that's fine. I will do whatever I have to do to make it work, but right now I'm not sure what that is...

I welcome all suggestions, and a link to an example would be great (or a title of a book).



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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Try searching for a "treeview" script - that sounds like it could be what you're after.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[BabyJeffy]

Personally I would suggest the client reconsiders the need to have such a cluttered set of menus. Good UI development practice suggests drop-down menu length of no more than 8 items... and up to 1 level of nested menus. Using this guide, the max number of items would be 64 in the menu (and even that would indicate a restructure).

The point is... sometimes just because you can do something doesn't make it right to do it

Cheers,
Jeff

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