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Description
Dynamic navigation menu using a mouseOver of main categories to dynamically generate buttons with appropriate labels and links. This script avoids special rollover graphics, and gets around the limitations of Netscape style sheets....View A Script Demo


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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<LINK href="general.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Original:  John Soul (john@cjsi.com) -->
<!-- Web Site:  http://www.cjsi.com/ -->
<!-- Begin
// Initiate a new array containing all the navigation hyperlinks that loads on startup
// The 'htm' extension for the link is added by the script

//initialize the variables for indexing data
x=1; //initialize the first variable
y=5; //initialize the variable used to reset the buttons on mouse out
linx = new Array()
linx[1] = new Array(); //First set of links for the top level category
linx[1][1] = "link1";
linx[1][2] = "link2";
linx[1][3] = "link3";
linx[1][4] = "link4";
linx[1][5] = "link5";

linx[2] = new Array(); //Second set of Links for next top level cateogry
linx[2][1] = "linkA";
linx[2][2] = "linkB";
linx[2][3] = "linkC";
linx[2][4] = "linkD";
linx[2][5] = "linkE";

linx[3] = new Array(); //Third set of Links for the last top level cateogry
linx[3][1] = "linkZ";
linx[3][2] = "linkY";
linx[3][3] = "linkX";
linx[3][4] = "linkW";
linx[3][5] = "linkV";

//This is the function populates the first set of buttons ...
function rollover1() {
document.menu.nav1.value = "Link 1";
document.menu.nav2.value = "Link 2";
document.menu.nav3.value = "Link 3";
document.menu.nav4.value = "Link 4";
document.menu.nav5.value = "Link 5";
document.menu.dummy.value = 1;
x = document.menu.dummy.value;
return(x);
}
//Function populates the second set of buttons ...
function rollover2() {
document.menu.nav1.value = "Link A";
document.menu.nav2.value = "Link B";
document.menu.nav3.value = "Link C";
document.menu.nav4.value = "Link D";
document.menu.nav5.value = "Link E";
document.menu.dummy.value = 2;
x = document.menu.dummy.value;
return(x);
}
//Function populates the third set of buttons ...
function rollover3() {
document.menu.nav1.value = "Link Z";
document.menu.nav2.value = "Link Y";
document.menu.nav3.value = "Link X";
document.menu.nav4.value = "Link W";
document.menu.nav5.value = "Link V";
document.menu.dummy.value = 3;
x = document.menu.dummy.value;
return(x);
}

//This sends
function go2url(hlink) {
// set temporary variable temp1 to the value of the dummy hidden field
var temp1 = document.menu.dummy.value;
// set the temporary variable temp2 to link array
var temp2 = (linx[temp1][hlink]);
// Construct the url for the link to point to
window.location = "http://www.yourdomain.com/"+temp2+".htm";
}

//If there are no lower tier navigation buttons, this function closes the buttons as the mouse moves off the prevoius link to this.
function rollout() {
//
for (var j=0; j<y; j++) {
document.menu.elements[j].value = "            ";
   }
}
//  End -->
</script>

</HEAD>

<BODY Background=../graphics/grayback.jpg>
<center><BR><BR><BR>
<!-- The following may be added to the body tag -->
<!--- onLoad="init()"> --->

<div align=center>
<center>
<!--- Note first 2 links do not have dynamic buttons --->
<A HREF="test1.htm" onMouseOver="rollover1()">Category 1</A> |
<A HREF="test2.htm" onMouseOver="rollover2()">Category 2</A> |
<A HREF="test3.htm" onMouseOver="rollover3()">Category 3</A> |
<A HREF="test4.htm" onMouseOver="rollout()">Category 4</A>
<FORM NAME="menu">
<!--- the blanks used in the value cater for Netscape that otherwise truncates the labels --->
<INPUT TYPE="button" name="nav1" value="            " onClick="go2url(1)">
<INPUT TYPE="button" name="nav2" value="            " onClick="go2url(2)">
<INPUT TYPE="button" name="nav3" value="            " onClick="go2url(3)">
<INPUT TYPE="button" name="nav4" value="            " onClick="go2url(4)">
<INPUT TYPE="button" name="nav5" value="            " onClick="go2url(5)">
<!--- this dummy element stores the link structure --->
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="dummy" value=""size="3" >
</FORM>

<P>
<SCRIPT>
//document.write(linx[1][2])
document.write("<P><SCRI"+"PT LANGUAGE='JavaScript1.2' SRC='../footer.js'></SCR"+"IPT>");
</SCRIPT>
</center>
</div>

</center>
</BODY>
</HTML>
 

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