The goal of most of the JavaScript menu systems is to enhance and improve the site navigation. Pull-down menus provide a convenient way and familiar way to provide users with lists of choices. These choices are basically links to all pages in the website, grouped under different menuhead. Different menuheads could be required to highlight different products or companys or other links.
The complexity with JavaScript-based menu systems is setup and appropriate application of CSS. The menu building process necessitates that the HTML, CSS , event handling, and dynamic manipulation of document objects in the page to work together harmoniously with perfect cross browser balancing. With so many interacting technologies, overlooking of any small detail might lead to a nightmare. Testing has to be vigorous to reach the perfection level otherwise navigation would be frustrating for the users. Here,we present a simple but basic JavaScript Menu which with little more attention towards details can be used for any site.
Code for the creating the sample Menu:
Please create an empty HTML file and place this code inside the file. Open the html file and you are good to go. You can make further customizations as per your need.
Menu Demonstration
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