html/css question

[Mike Teezie]

I am a total web novice.

I want to try to build a nav bar for my site, much like this one.

What I need to know is - is the menu above composed with a combination off html and css, or one of the two? I really like the way on rollover, the sub menus drop down.

Would I make a table, then do the drop downs with css?

I wouldn't even know how to do the css honestly, but I'm trying to learn. My employers have tapped me to become our web designer, even though I really have no experiece with any of it.

I'm trying to learn.....

ANY help at all would be greatly appreciated.

 

[mnkeybsness]

check out the Suckerfish Dropdown Method

 

[whocares]

CSS will do half the work for you: creating the menu and submenus (each submenu will be on its own layer).

You'll also have to throw in a healthy dose of javascript to show and hide the submenus (notice the 'onmouseover="somejavascript"' in the page's source).

From experience, this will force you to do some browser specific javascript coding (namely for MSIE and Netscape <=4.7). All browser don't handle displaying and showing layers the same way in javascript (has to do with the DOM - Document Object Model, if you won't to go deeper into that; good luck!).

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You didn't need to go so far for an example, we have similar menus here at MR, just click on someone's pseudo to the left of the posts!

 

[whocares]

check out the Suckerfish Dropdown Method

Just read through your link. Good stuff!


Still, bloody MSIE is always there to ruin your day.

 

[Mike Teezie]

check out the Suckerfish Dropdown Method

Oh, wow.

Thanks a TON. Seriously, I would have never made it without this.