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Accordion Tree Menu Tutorial


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Features Accordion Tree Menu Tutorial

Seamless Integration
  • Visible over flash, select boxes, iframes, java applets
  • Multiple menus on the same page
  • Amicable to other scripts and css styles
  • Any HTML code can be used inside menu items
Unrivalled Features
  • Scrollable, dragable, floating
  • Unique Java Script API for altering menu "on-the-fly", without page reloading
  • AJAX technology - loads menu data from the server "on-fly and on-demand".
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Cost Effective
High Performance
  • AJAX menu loading - loads web menu data from the server "on-the-fly".
  • Commonly loads quicker than other html page elements
  • Runs well with an unlimited number of submenus and items
Compatibility              
  • Full cross-browser compatibility including IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Firefox, Konqueror and Safari on Windows, Mac OS and Linux
  • Menu can be populated from a database using ASP, PHP, etc.
  • Search engine friendly
  • Support for any doctypes
  • Fits for secure sites
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Javascript Tree Menu. Expandable Menu.

  • There can be as many submenus as you want.
  • Use a mouse to drag a menu as a usual window.
  • When the page is scrolled the menu remains visible. The Javascript/DHTML Tree can "float" along one or two coordinate axes. After clicking on menu item selected item becomes highlighted.

Recent Questions Accordion Tree Menu Tutorial

Q: It's been couple of months since I last time asked something about tree menu. I am still evaluating the software.

I have a short question. Is it possible to use CSS instead of JavaScript to tune the look and feel of the tree menu? For example I would be interested in giving menu css java item height value in relative numbers (em or %) rather than specifying a size in pixels...

A: But actually you can use 'em' and '%' units in Javascript/DHTML Tree, forexample.

  var tmenuWidth="13em";
  var tmenuHeight="12em";

  var tmenuWidth="35%";
  var tmenuHeight="15em";



Q: Is there any way I can do the opposite and make the space my separators take up only a few pixels high? At present I can only make them the same height as the other buttons even though the separator image is only 2 pixels high.


A: You should set a separator in the menuItems, for example:

  var menuItems = [
["Home","index.cfm", , , , , , , , ],
["-"],
["About Us","about.cfm", , , , , , , , ],

];

Please, see the following parameters:

//--- Separators
  var separatorImage=""; //for subitems
  var separatorWidth="100%";
  var separatorHeight="3px";
  var separatorAlignment="right";
  var separatorVImage="images/public/separator.gif"; //for the top items
  var separatorVWidth="100%";
  var separatorVHeight="2px";
  var separatorPadding="";




Q: Is there any way through script to call the function that would be called if the user clicked a dhtml tabbed menu?


A: You're able to use Javascript for each item, for example:

  var bmenuitems = [
["item text", "javascript:your_code_here"]
];

Unfortunately, you can't assign onmouseover/onClick event to each item.
However, you can achieve this by using standard html objects within items, for example:

  var bmenuitems = [
["<div onClick='your_code_here'>item text</div>", "index.html"]
];


Q: Can I choose what items will be expanded or collapsed in the php tree view
when the user first comes to the webpage?

A: You can expand some items by default.
Add '+' sign before items text in that case:

["+Javascript/DHTML Tree: XP Style","", "deluxe-tree.files/xpicon1_s.gif", "", "", "XP Title Tip", "", "0", "", "", ],
 ["|Home","testlink.htm", "deluxe-tree.files/icon1_s.gif", "deluxe-tree.files/icon1_so.gif", "", "Home Page Tip", "", "", "", "data-new.js", ],

"Javascript/DHTML Tree: XP Style" item will be expanded by default in that case.

Use   var texpanded=1; parameter to expand all menu items by default.

Use function dtreet_ext_expandItem (itemID, expand) API function to expand the specificmenu items dynamically:
http://deluxe-tree.com/functions-info.html