[thelist] name of function / cascading menu effect

[Bob Meetin]

Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Bob Meetin<bobm at dottedi.biz> wrote:
>   
>> what is the name of the function, also what is used to create a
>> cascading menu system:
>>
>> 1) select vehicle type (car or truck)
>> 2) if car, second menu dynamically lists: audi, jensen, mercury,
>> pontiac, volkswagen
>> 3) if select jensen, third menu dynamically changes to list jensen
>> healey or jensen interceptor
>>
>> what is this called?
>>     
>
> I'd accept "cascading menu system" :-)
>
>   
>> language? javascript, mootools, jquery, ajax?
>>     
>
> JavaScript is a programming language.
>
> MooTools and jQuery are two (of many!) JavaScript libraries.
>
> AJAX is an acronym referring to a particular use of JavaScript.
>
> In any case, yes, doing a menu like you describe client-side *without*
> a full page refresh requires JavaScript, though not necessarily any of
> the other three mentioned.
>
> HTH,
>   
Maybe I should have said flavor of JavaScript, but that's it.  I think 
either tirerack.com or nada.com use the function to get you going.  
Anyone on the list have a good reference link to the code or should I 
resort to google, which is fine.