Can someone please tell me how to apply a behaviour to hide a drop down menu
using a transparent .gif file.
I can see the change property box but what gets entered into them to produce
this affect.

OK, I give. I'm confused.

If the gif file is transparent, how can it hide anything??

?:-)

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"Craig" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Can someone please tell me how to apply a behaviour to hide a drop down menu
> using a transparent .gif file.
> I can see the change property box but what gets entered into them to produce
> this affect.

There's a complete procedure that includes this technique at:

Creating DHTML Menus in FrontPage 2003
http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tip...ow.aspx?tip=28

Jim Buyens
Microsoft MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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"Craig" wrote:

> Can someone please tell me how to apply a behaviour to hide a drop down menu
> using a transparent .gif file.
> I can see the change property box but what gets entered into them to produce
> this affect.

There's a technique for hiding drop-down menu leaves where you:

o Display each leaf at, say, z-index 2.
o Display a large transparent GIF behind the whole DHTML menu structure
(i.e. at z-index 1).

Then, whenever the transparent GIF gets an onmouseover, you hide all the
drop-down menu leaves.

Note that you can't reliably use onmouseout to detect when the mouse moves
outside a dropdown menu leaf. This is because in a structure like:

<div>
<table>
<tr><td><a href="hither.htm">Hither</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="yon.htm">Yon</td></tr>
</table>
</div>

the <div> gets :

o An onmouseover event when the mouse enters it, which is fine.
o An onmouseout event when the mouse moves outside it, which is fine.
o An onmouseout event when the mouse moves over the table, which is
*way* inconvenient.

Basically, when the table gets onmouseover, the div has to get onmouseout,
because the mouse can only be over one element at a time. Because of this,
you can't use the div's onmouseout to hide the div. You have to use
onmouseover on some element outside the div, such as a transparent gif
underlaying the whole menu.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
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> OK, I give. I'm confused.
>
> If the gif file is transparent, how can it hide anything??
>
> ?:-)
>
> --
> Steve Easton
> Microsoft MVP FrontPage
> 95isalive
> This site is best viewed............
> ........................with a computer
>
> "Craig" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:41C57013-22B8-4592-BD33-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Can someone please tell me how to apply a behaviour to hide a drop down menu
> > using a transparent .gif file.
> > I can see the change property box but what gets entered into them to produce
> > this affect.
>
>
>

Thanks for that Jim I had already been to interlacken after reading some
other posts and since then I had a problem making my iimage to transparent.
Revisiting this site forced me to look again at what I had been doing and
this proved to be where the answer lay. I had not applied a behaviur to the
main menu hyperlink to make the .gif layer visible and therefore no matter
what I tried it wa never going to happen. So in short you fixed my problem -
many thanks keep up the good work with the service you provide for everyone
on this forum and thanks once again.
Craig

"Jim Buyens" wrote:

> There's a complete procedure that includes this technique at:
>
> Creating DHTML Menus in FrontPage 2003
> http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tip...ow.aspx?tip=28
>
> Jim Buyens
> Microsoft MVP
> http://www.interlacken.com
> Author of:
> *----------------------------------------------------
> |\---------------------------------------------------
> || Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out
> || Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
> ||---------------------------------------------------
> || Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
> || Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
> || Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
> || (All from Microsoft Press)
> |/---------------------------------------------------
> *----------------------------------------------------
>
> "Craig" wrote:
>
> > Can someone please tell me how to apply a behaviour to hide a drop down menu
> > using a transparent .gif file.
> > I can see the change property box but what gets entered into them to produce
> > this affect.