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Re: JavaScript Drop-down Navigation

  • Subject: Re: JavaScript Drop-down Navigation
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 07:46:56 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Manchester University
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Adrienne wrote:

> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> writing in
> dceqmq$2c86$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk:">news:dceqmq$2c86$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk:
> 
>> Yeah wrote:
>> 
>>> I wish to use a drop box where each Option will not take the user to a
>>> web page - but a certain location on the same page the drop box
>>> exists. For example, Option 1 would take the user to "Chapter 1",
>>> Option 2 would be "Chapter 2", and so on. All destinations are on the
>>> same page.
>>> 
>>> I already have <A NAME="#ChapterX"> tags placed in the appropriate
>>> places in the document. (A no-GO button drop box is preferred.)
>>> 
>>> How do I achieve this?
>> 
>> Try this...
>> 
>> In <head>:
>> 
>><script type="text/javascript">
>> function formHandler(form){
>> var URL =
>> document.form.site.options[document.form.site.selectedIndex].value;
>> window.location.href = URL;
>> }
>></script>
>> 
>> In <body>:
> <snip>
> 
>> I can confirm that it works properly in all major modern browsers.
>> 
> 
> For users with javascript enabled.  One should always provide another
> means of navigation for users without, eg. Google.

Places where I embed such code have an alternative version that is
JavaScript-free. The OP can include another version which has a simple
expanded menu rather than a drop-down, but it's a poor choice from an
SEO-centric point-of-view.

Roy

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