the functionality of microsoft site is provided by two javascript files,
manipulating several dhtml layers.  you can see these if you save the entire
web page, say in IE5.

the 'toolbar' consists of a menu on the extreme top right hand side of the
page (global) and the menu system on the left hand side (local) and a
toolbar file

you should also notice that in the htm page you have code to return ordinary
html to browsers other than IE 4

i learnt a lot from 'reverse engineering' this code about dhtml and
javascript, but it's not for the faint hearted!

you can get a similar system from www.dynamicdrive.com which you can use in
your sites, but it's still a little short of the microsoft menu system.

any other q's about this jus' send 'em through!


-----Original Message-----
From: mg188@h... [mailto:mg188@h...]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 4:33 AM
To: HTML Code Clinic
Subject: [html_code_clinic] mouseover menu question


How can I get a pulldown menu to show it's options when the user puts the
mouse over the first option?  You can see examples on
http://microsoft.com/ .  I like this - less mouseclicks for the user, and
I think the page looks better without a bunch of select boxes with
scrollbars.

I looked at the source for this page, and there are some links to asp
pages, so maybe the code I'm looking for is in those asp pages, which I
wouldn't have access to.  Any ideas?