Re: Pop Up Menus In Frameset

message from robinbobobbin on 22 Jul 2004
Hey there

Im having some trouble getting my pop up/drop down menus to show up outside of
a frame. I have my navigation in a top frame and the behavior attached to my
nav links. When I mouse over the menus get blocked by my content frame. I
haven't had this problem before. Any suggestions?!

http://www.robinreece.com/aicm is the page Im having problems with

Help, please
robin
 
Murray *TMM* replied to robinbobobbin on 22 Jul 2004
There is no practical way to make a layer (that's how drop-down menus work)
cross the boundary between two separate frames (i.e., two unique HTML
pages).

It is true. Your choices are limited now -

1. DUMP THE FRAMES - you would not be having this problem in a non-framed
site.
2. Redesign your menus so that they do not need to span a frame boundary.
3. Redesign the frameset so that you leave enough room for the largest
popup.
4. Move the layer code for the popups from the page in the navigation frame
to each page in the content frame.
5. DUMP THE FRAMES - you would not be having this problem in a non-framed
site.

I recommend either #1 or #5, depending on what your needs are. You just
have no idea the horrors that await you if you continue with the frames.....
8)

As for the pop-up menus? Well you are in trouble there, too. Read this -

http://apptools.com/rants/jsmenu.php
 

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