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A Simple DHTML Flyout Menu

THANK YOU!!

January 10, 2004 by nikki shannon

Doesn't Work PC IE6

March 15, 2006 by Jay moody

This tutorial was promising at first. Tom explained the compatability limitations up front which was fine with me since I only needed help creating a menu for an intranet consisting of pcs using IE6. I followed along through the tutorial writing my own .htm, .css, and .js pages.

Of course it didn't work. When I finally gave up trying to fix it, I scrapped all the files and just copied the entire source provided by Tom in the tutorial. The problem continued:

Line: 40

Char: 1

Error: 'finalCloseTime' is undefined

I then tried placing all the js and css in the same page as the html. Didn't work...

I'm pretty upset that I purchased this document hoping to find help where I didn't find it elsewhere then being completely let down.

RE: Doesn't Work PC IE6

March 15, 2006 by Tom Dell'Aringa

If you'll email me your files, I can help you out. Looks like you have a call to a function that the page cannot see, probably simple to fix. Copying the code from the PDFs can be problematic because of weird line breaks, so you have to be really careful. Tom

RE: RE: Doesn't Work PC IE6

March 16, 2006 by Jay moody

Thank you for your quick reply Tom. I was able to find a break where there shouldn't be. It works beautifuly now!

What can be done to this script to make it compatable with other browsers as well. (I don't have a need for the compatability, but am curious....Firefox and older versions of IE)

RE: RE: RE: Doesn't Work PC IE6

March 16, 2006 by Tom Dell'Aringa

Honestly, this script is a bit out of date. I don't have one available, but if you google for css menus you'll literally find a boatload of them, many that work across platforms. There are even some that don't use JS. Someday I'll have to update this script.