[thelist] Drop down menus w/o layers & Printable pages
aardvark
roselli at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 23 16:59:31 CST 2001
> From: "Biddy Hughes" <biddy at s4i.com>
[...]
> * We're trying to find a solution for a scalable website that also contains
> drop down menus.
do you expect these menus to be dynamically generated by the
site? such as determined by a CMS and built on the fly based on
the site content?
> 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?
for all users? no... for IE4+ only users? well, still tricky, so i defer
to someone else on that...
> 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?
a tag? no. but CSS can be used to adjust the units from pixels
(for instance) to points so the text will print at a reasonable size...
maybe i'm missing your question here...
> 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?
for the most part, yes, but you don't *need* a database for this...
you have a page template, and then you have a printing template...
that printing template might be completely liquid and call a print-
friendly CSS, or it might be the same template with some colors
turned off... one example might be the printable version of all the
pages at http://roselli.org/tour/ ... none of them are db-driven (ok,
not really, it's driven from text files) and they all use the same
template, just with a diffeerent CSS file and some color changes for
printing...
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