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I’ve spent the past week playing with the Spry Widgets in Dreamweaver CS3. To greater or lesser degrees I’ve had problems with most of them, from jittery animation to cross-browser rendering problems. Their tabbed content widget has so far proven the most reliable for me.

For now, I’m looking for a good dropdown/flyout menu script, one that’s reasonably easy to use and style, and that won’t present cross-browser problems.

What’s the recommendation among the great designers here?

Sons of Suckerfish Dropdowns.

I have used both ul2menu and suckerfish. I did examples a few years back for an intranet documents library I was working on and I ended up going with ul2menu, because it just worked best for me at the time. This intranet was on a Windows 2000 system (system wide, every user desktop was Windows 2000) but my examples I worked on at home on a Mac. So I think they would both behave fairly well on different browsers and systems. However, because the system I developed it for was a set platform and browser, and would remain so for many years, thanks to a big licensing contract signed between this large public organisation and Microsoft (the biggest ever apparently), the issue of cross-browser, cross platform did not ever come up.

Anyway, Suckerfish example and ul2menus example.

They were made using a pretty standard EE unordered category list and this was circa EE 1.3 so category management has a few extra features these days. Note all of the menu links are dead. I messed around a little bit with the standard scripts but they are pretty much as per the originators. Hope these are useful

Try these: http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/index.htm

Looks like some good scripts and far less complex than Spry Widgets. (Their js codes alone comes to about 12K.)

Thanks, everyone!

Using Web Standards and css:
CSS Play

I’m personally using Superfish on my site - which is a jquery powered Sons of Suckerfish type deal, and I’ve been really happy with it. I used Suckerfish before but I wanted to delve into jquery and have some nicer transitions, so.. =)

I’ve used ProjectSeven’s PopMenuMagic. Worked pretty well, but I think it relied on Dreamweaver to implement (at least initially).

I second the comments/opinions for CSS Play

Although the jQuery method, mentioned by Lisa, has me wondering ... hhmm ... I may need to check it out!

I’m personally using Superfish on my site - which is a jquery powered Sons of Suckerfish type deal, and I’ve been really happy with it. I used Suckerfish before but I wanted to delve into jquery and have some nicer transitions, so.. =)

Really neat. I guess that the menu is generated on-the-fly, and not hard coded.

Any idea how this would work if I use categories and sub-categories for the menu?

This here goes only half way in that it displays only the main categories, but not the sub-categories.

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="treic" parent_only="yes" style="linear"} 
<li id="{category_id}">
  <a href="http://{path={my_template_group}/{category_url_title}}" title="{category_name}" class="active">{category_name}</a>
</li>
{/exp:weblog:categories}

And if I change the “parent_only” to “no”, than the subcategories are being displayed but the additional <ul> I need for the sub-categories display isn’t inserted.

Thanks for any help!