[thelist] Drop down menus w/o layers & Printable pages

[Mark Gregor]

Hi,

> without using
> layers.....  this will enable the drop-down menus to move as the page
> scales...    Is anyone familiar with this?  If so, can you please point me
> to a resource that covers this?

Not sure if I understand exactly what you want to do, but if you want scalable menus, the only way I know how to do this is to use Flash.  Everything (including the menus) should scale as the browser is resized. 

> just pull the data out of the page when the visitor hits the print icon -
> i.e. it prints the page content instead of cutting off the page content at
> the 640 mark....  Is anyone familiar with this?

You'd need to seperate the text from layout of the page, so yep, a database would do it.  Or you could make it really tough on yourself and create duplicate pages, one for printing the other for online viewing.

Good luck!

Mark

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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Biddy Hughes
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 4:00 PM
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> Subject: [thelist] Drop down menus w/o layers & Printable pages
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> 
> Hello
> 
> I'm a web project manager working in a design house....  One of 
> our clients
> has requested some technical neccessities that we (our HTML 
> programmers & I)
> are not familiar with - we're mostly a front end GUI design house...
> 
> *  We're trying to find a solution for a scalable website that 
> also contains
> drop down menus.
> 
> In the past we've used DHTML & javascript and layers to create these
> drop-down menus....  It has been suggested that we can do this 
> without using
> layers.....  this will enable the drop-down menus to move as the page
> scales...    Is anyone familiar with this?  If so, can you please point me
> to a resource that covers this?
> 
> Also, we're designing the site to 600x800 dimensions....and we 
> must provide
> a printable page...  I understand that there is a tag/piece of 
> code that can
> just pull the data out of the page when the visitor hits the print icon -
> i.e. it prints the page content instead of cutting off the page content at
> the 640 mark....  Is anyone familiar with this?
> 
> I hear that this is only possible if the content is already in a database,
> and it is already being pulled out and placed into a template 
> page, like an
> ASP website. Is this true?
> 
> I appreciate any and all help and comments,
> 
> thanks so much,
> 
> biddy hughes
> project manager
> p:  650 917 7500 x1129  --  c:  650 274 3995
> e:  biddy at s4i.com  --  f:  650 917 7505
> w:  www.s4i.com
> 
> 
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