> I just found my SOURCE today and thought I would pass it along. The O'Reilly > "CSS Cookbook" by Christopher Schmitt. It's in Chapter 3: Links and > Navigation and here is called 'Creating Collapsible Menus' (pp 78-80). > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cssckbk/ > > There is a zip available of code and I think the example is there. > > Additional comment: Chris was right to correct my comment that implied short > JavaScript was 'better'. As he so well stated, short really has nothing to > do with "better" or not. I meant that I used one that had much less JS > involved.
Which might be even worse. With JavaScript I can delay the hiding of sub elements, I can set a state that doesn't change, and it works in every browser that supports the DOM and event handlers (which includes all major ones since their third generation). I can make the menus collapse and expand with a mouse and a keyboard or I can even offer the option not to collapse the menu - something I can only do with CSS with an extra style sheet. With CSS I have to hack around (with JS or JScripts in HTCs) to make MSIE behave, I have no way of keeping the state and I cannot make the menu work with a keyboard (unless the browser in use supports :focus and :active). However, CSS menus are sexier as they are newer :-) Eric pointed all these issues out in his book, sadly enough a lot of CSS tutorials reiterating some of his ideas fail to mention them. CSS menus are easier to maintain for the developer, hybrid JS/CSS menus with all the styling in the CSS are both maintainable and work for a lot bigger user group. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
