Menu

[sparkymark75]

I'm after a certain type of menu functionality (not sure what it's typically called). The most obvious example I can find is at microsoft.com/ When you hover over one of the menu items in the silver bar, a "box" appears below it with multiple columns.

Does anyone know where I can get something similar?

 

[sparkymark75]

I don't get the dropdowns on microsoft.com (possibly because I'm using Safari) but google "suckerfish dropdowns".

Here's a pic to illustrate for those that can't see it.

 

[sparkymark75]

I think he means some sort of ready made solution having multiple lists. The thing that comes to mind first is showing hide divs using javascript/JQuery.

Actually, after a quick look I think that's how microsoft are doing on their page, as each dropdown seems to be a hiden div with multiple lists in each div.

Which is what I thought but given that I'm not up on all the quirks of different browsers, I didn't want to start something from scratch and was looking for an example that was similar for me to start from, best practice, etc.

Cheers.