Installation Guide
The JavaScript Tree Menu by Net Explorers Ltd is open source
and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, a copy
of which has been distributed with this script. By using or distributing
this script you are agreeing to the terms of the license.
The usual terms of use apply. You may freely use this for personal or
commercial use so long as you keep the copyright notices intact. A link
back to our website is not compulsory but would be very much appreciated.
www.hosting-netexplorers.co.uk
Features
- Works in all browsers (hopefully)
- Tested on PC (IE5, NS4 & Opera 5) and Mac (IE5 & NS4.7)
- Appearance easily changed using a style sheet
- Use of images and/or characters for the bullets is optional
- Configurable through a group of settings
- Can easiliy be used to pass varaibles on the end of URLs
Installation
Files needed:
- menu.html - page that displays the menu
- jsmenu/jsmenu.js - contains the menu data, settings and code that
generates the menu
- jsmenu/style.css - style sheet that determines text attributes
- images/open.gif, closed.gif, bullet.gif - to use your own images change
the settings
How to build your menu:
Change the settings in jsmenu.js to suit your requirements. All the variables
have comments to explain what each of them does.
For each menu category you need to do 3 things:
1. Create a short variable to identify the category e.g. for the web
hosting category we chose 'hosting'
2. Build you menu data in jsmenu.js:
- put your indentifying variable into the 'if' statement e.g. page=='hosting'
- Create your sub category items - each has a name and a url
- Make sure they are correctly numbered (in sequential order)
i.e. starting from 0
thisMenu[0]
thisMenu[1]
thisMenu[2]
thisMenu[3]
3. Change the code in the <BODY> of menu.html file where you
want the menu to appear.
Only two things to change here, the category name and the identifying
variable e.g. 'Web Hosting' and 'hosting'.
Need Help?
Thanks to the hosting provider that is currently hosting www.d-zineworx.co.uk
where this script was originally made available the discussion forums
where we provided support on it went down without us knowing. Luckily
we are our own web hosting company so we are currently in the process
of setting up new forums on this site to provide support on this script.
In the meantime please email info@netexplorers.co.uk
for assistance.
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