If i open a html with dreamweaver and save it, the drop down menus will not work...

is dreamweaver doing something to the html page when saving. whenever i open a html page with drop down menus using dreamweaver and save it, even without modifying it, the drop down menus of that html page doesn't work anymore when i open it with my explorer browser, it still works on safari though, but sometimes on other types of menus, it will not work on safari either.

do i have to modify a setting on dreamweaver to prevent it from corrupting the html page?

What do you mean by "doesn't work"? There is no drop down menu? Or it doesn't drop down? What?

What's the URL of the page in question. I'd have to look at the code to tell you what's wrong.

well, depending on the drop down menu, on the suckerfish one, it just doesn't show any drop down lists at all, it doesn't work, nothing drops down.

and on other type of dropdown menus, instead of a dropdown menu, it just gives a list of all the links that was on the drop down menu.

I don't know if this is your problem, but this happened to me. Was editing some template files in code view for a php app in Dreamweaver (we have to use it at work, I prefer Notepad++, see sig) and on some of the forms the fields were losing their default values, and it was driving me nuts as to why. After much loss of hair I discoverd that Dreamweaver, for some reason was changing the case of some of the variables. It was just doîng it, but I don't know why. As php vars are case sensitive the case change screwed everything up. Teh wierd thing was that it was only for certain ones. As Suckerfish uses JS, and JS is case sensitive too, you might want to check this out. Like I said this might not be the case, but I thought it usefull to share my experience.

Post the page's URL. Or, post the relevant part of the HTML code.

I use dreamweaver and I am having problems getting the suckerfish drop down menu IE js hack to work too. Maybe that is the issue? Interesting.

dotancohen, maybe you can help me with my menu problem. theres a link on that topic that you can download the file i am talking about, as well as the code is there on the post.

http://forums.devshed.com/html-programming-1/drop-down-menu-problem-339827.html

So start a thread on the subject. Don't hijack this one.

That js code is way overbloated. What is wrong with a simple HTML dropdown menu? I'm not about to decode all that js in my head- tell me what you are trying to do that a simple dropdown won't.

people tell me that that drop down menu is overbloated. are there any benefits to an overbloated menu? why would anyone build a menu that is that overbloated with js. is it more secure, more reliable, etc, than a simple drop down menu.

i am trying to get a menu that is very compatible with alot of browsers and one that is easy to modify with pics or how many menu/sub menus in it and i can move around on the design and it stays relative to the design than fixed.

No- overbloated is a bad thing.

Dropdown menus that will work on all browsers will not have pictures or submenus:



Can you point me to an example of a URL that has a dropdown box that you do like?

i am not really fussed about the drop down menu, all i want is one that i can modify the looks by changing a few values here and there, replace with pics for the main menu part and maybe have the menu in a table so that i can align the table at the center in a design and the menu will move with the design accordingly so that it remains center rather that it be fixed to one position regardless.

If you're willing to compromise on the pictures, then use an HTML dropdown like I showed you. If you must have the images, then try doing it with CSS and js, not purely js.

do u have one with images that fits the bill of what im looking for or must the search go on?

Do I have? Javascript is not usually accosiated with proprietary code.

This works with IE:
http://simplythebest.net/scripts/DHTML_scripts/dhtml_script_26.html

But I could not test it, as I use Firefox. Spend some time on google.