Back at work, still need Jump Menu help.

[drewan]

I'm back at work now. Dad's doing great, and hopefully he'll come home today.

So, I'm back to my jump menu problem. Thanks to those who responded to my Thursday post about the jump menus. We didn't solve me problem though.

What I'm doing is trying to create a mock-up version of our divisions future website using HTML. Eventually the site will be recreated in the Corporation's portal, but I want to give our content developers here a sense of how the content will look and feel. I have an HTML version of the new site templates from the Corporate team, but I can't reproduce the multi-level jump menus that are used in the real Corporate sites.

Here is a description of what they should do...

Level 1 jump menu gives you several options.
Level 2 jump menu changes based on your selection from level 1.
Level 3 jump menu changes based on your selection from level 2.

Yes, this might now be the best way to handle this. That's now the point. This is the way the Corporate designers have arranged the content and I can't change that. So, how do I recreate that?

Comments

[sraun]

http://www.dhtmlcentral.com/ has some Javascript menus available to grab - do any of them meet your needs?

[jbru.livejournal.com]

Do you need to have all the options available for your mock-up? Does a single walk-through give you enough of a mock-up to meet your needs?

That is, limit your menus to a single active choice that will be used in presenting. (You can still list out several inactive choices to flesh it out.) If I recall your interface, there's an activation button next to each jump menu. If that's true and having a single choice for demonstation works for you, you can simplify your problem. You wouldn't need to figure out how to have each menu choice populate the next jump menu you'd just have to have the activation button show the menu you've pre-chosen.

If that makes sense.