[pmwiki-users] Real drop-down, or pull-down menu for sidebar possible?

[Roman]

As to JumpBox, try both examples on
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/JumpBox. As to OptionMenu, I don't
know about publicly available site that uses it. My site is behind
firewall.

Roman

On 4/18/07, Jonathan Knight <kelpranch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Roman,
>
> Thanks for the tips. Can you direct me to a page that uses either of those
> for their navigation menus?
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
>
> On 4/18/07, Roman <romat2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Is there a way to create a true drop down list for the navigation bar,
> such
> > > that it expands either on hover over, or on click?
> >
> > Take a look at
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/OptionMenu or
> > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/JumpBox.
> >
> > Because I evaluated both recipes recently I can tell you about my
> experience.
> >
> > OptionMenu is simpler to use, just put fmt=optionmenu to your
> > pagelist. That's all. On the other hand it requires communication with
> > server, i.e. does not work in offline version of pages (if you need
> > this functionality).
> >
> > With Jumpbox you have to define pagelist template first. On the other
> > hand it's better customizable. As opposite to OptionMenu it works in
> > offline version, but has another problem. If pagelist contains actual
> > page, this page is not selected in droplist (in HTML <option> does not
> > have selected=selected attribute).
> >
> > I would like to use JumpBox (because of its offline support) but could
> > not found a way how to solve the problem with selection of actual
> > page. Maybe someone could help.
> >
> > Roman
> >
>
>
>
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