Bind Menu Effect - Instalation

Instalation Information

Installing the menu effect script is very simple, there is no point in posting detailed information about how to set up the script here, it's simpler for just to download one of the samples in the download section.

This script was designed specially to serve as a flexibele component that can be integrated within bigger client-side scripts.
Basically it retains the ability to define the three states of a button/option thru css (the "tblTab_default", "tblTab_over", "tblTab_selected" classes) thus allowing full customisation, however, at the same time uses the power of javascript to handle events and also passes them back thru a callback function so that it can be easily integrated within other scripts without having to edit the code or worry about compatibility.

The 1.9 version of the menu effect script was fixed and now allows multiple instances. Any number of instances can be defined from the menu effect object. Beeing able to create multiple instances of the menu effect is great when it comes to creating menus with submenus. Yes there are other menu scripts out there that can handle submenus but that's not the point, most of those scripts are huge, they involve a large number of configuration parameters, most of them are not contained into javascript objects thus cannot be instanced, and most of all, they give developers headaches when it comes to editing or integrating with other code.

If you don't feel like reading all this text above... who and why should use the menu effect script:

   1. Web developers. If you are writing a complex javascript menu or any other client-side component you could probably make good use of this script.

   2. Site owners. If you are building your own site and you are not an expert in client side scripting or html, just download one of the sample scripts from the download section and change the options.

Known Issues:

   1. Wasn't tested on a large number of browsers so there may be problems. Only sure to work in IE and Mozilla Firefox, last generation of Netscape Navigator, other browers not tested.

   2. Setting the redirection thru javascript instead of classic links can cause search engines to skip indexing linked pages. That depends mostly on the way the urls are set up but just to make sure you should also have the links in duplicate within another section of your page like the links within the page footer. However I guess this is an issue with all javascript based menus so it's not any different.

That's about all, have fun with the script and if you successfully use it to build other more interested scripts let me know, I would love to hear it.