Simple navigation question

[NRastogi]

Hi guys,

I have an URGENT question for you, please respond immediately if you could think of the answer or any sort of input. Any help is highly appreciated.

Scenario:
I have a website that was using table. The struc. would look like as follows
<TR>

<TD>
This the place the navigation bar appears, that has menus and for those menu there are popup menus. As soon as you mouse-over to those menus, a popup box (sub menus) appears on the edge of those menus.
</TD>
<TD>
REST OF THE SITE
</TD>

</TR>


Now, we just bought some application, which is FRAME based and it's main contents has to be in a frame.

What we have done is moved create a page with FRAMES that has two frames, one for navigation menu and other for the "new application" and our old contents.

If I copy the javascript that displays menus, the popups are getting cut in half. If I make the size of the left frame bigger, I loose the contents of the main frame.

Questions:
1) What is the best way to deal this situation?

2) Can I overlay the popups on the top of both frames, if yes how? Those popups are created using FireWorks and DreamWeaver (uses javascript)

3) How could I dynamically call those menu popups on the start (left) edge of the main frame, or ending (right)edge of the navigation frame.


Thanks a lot in advance.

NRastogi

[Roy Sinclair]

The problem of course is that content in one frame absolutely cannot exist outside the frame boundary. The only way to make something like that work is to have the menuing code create and destroy the menu items in the target frame instead of within the local frame.

The only menu of that sort which I know of that'll work across a frame boundary is the older version of a difficult to use menu at WebReference.com (http://webreference.com/dhtml/) but that menu has a lot of strings attached too.

Perhaps someone else knows a different menu with that capability and without the costs and other strings.

[beetle]

Originally posted by NRastogi
Questions:
1) What is the best way to deal this situation?Don't use the popout menus.

Questions 2 and 3 become a moot point with this solution, and you get to keep some of your hair :D

Frames and popout menus has always been "either/or" choice for me.

[Roy Sinclair]

Originally posted by beetle
Don't use the popout menus.

Questions 2 and 3 become a moot point with this solution, and you get to keep some of your hair :D

Frames and popout menus has always been "either/or" choice for me.

Good point. A expanding/collapsing menu would work well as an alternative.

[beetle]

This menuing system (http://www.likno.com/) seems to have support for cross-frame popouts.

Hope it works for ya.