jQuery Simple Drop Down Menu

In this section, you will learn how to develop a simple drop down menu using jQuery

In this section, you will learn how to develop a simple drop down menu using jQuery

jQuery Simple Drop Down Menu

In this section, you will learn how to develop a simple drop down menu using jQuery. To develop a drop down menu we put the menu items in a unordered list .After that we design and manage it using CSS . After it we bind the two events i.e. mouseover & mouseout to two user defined functions i.e. "jsddm_open" & "jsddm_timer" . The other two functions are helping function of the previously describe functions. The complete code is given below :

DropDownMenu.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>jQuery Simple Drop Down Menu</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<style type="text/css">

/* common page styles */
body
{ background: #6595A3;
padding: 0 20px}

.clear
{ clear: both;
overflow: hidden;
height: 0}

#all
{ width: 60%;
min-width: 650px;
margin: 40px auto 0 auto;
background: #FCFFED;
padding: 20px 35px}

h1
{ font: 26px tahoma, arial;
color: #324143}

p
{ font: 12px tahoma, arial;
color: #171F26;
margin-bottom: 25px}

a
{ color: #324143}

</style>

</head>
<body>
<div id="all">
<style type="text/css">
/* menu styles */
#jsddm
{ margin: 0;
padding: 0}

#jsddm li
{ float: left;
list-style: none;
font: 12px Tahoma, Arial}

#jsddm li a
{ display: block;
background: #324143;
padding: 5px 12px;
text-decoration: none;
border-right: 1px solid white;
width: 70px;
color: #FF6347;
white-space: nowrap}

#jsddm li a:hover
{ background: #24313C}

#jsddm li ul
{ margin: 0;
padding: 0;
position: absolute;
visibility: hidden;
border-top: 1px solid white}

#jsddm li ul li
{ float: none;
display: inline}

#jsddm li ul li a
{ width: auto;
background: #FF6347;
color: #24313C}

#jsddm li ul li a:hover
{ background: #6495ED}
</style>
<script src="jquery-1.4.2.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var timeout = 500;
var closetimer = 0;
var ddmenuitem = 0;

function jsddm_open()
{ jsddm_canceltimer();
jsddm_close();
ddmenuitem = $(this).find('ul').eq(0).css('visibility', 'visible');}

function jsddm_close()
{ if(ddmenuitem) ddmenuitem.css('visibility', 'hidden');}

function jsddm_timer()
{ closetimer = window.setTimeout(jsddm_close, timeout);}

function jsddm_canceltimer()
{ if(closetimer)
{ window.clearTimeout(closetimer);
closetimer = null;}}

$(document).ready(function()
{ $('#jsddm > li').bind('mouseover', jsddm_open);
$('#jsddm > li').bind('mouseout', jsddm_timer);});

document.onclick = jsddm_close;
</script>
<center><h3><font color="green">
Hover mouse on any menu item to drop down list</font></h3></center>
<ul id="jsddm">
<li><a href="#">Ajax</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Global Ajax Event Handler</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Low Level InterFace</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Short Hand Methods</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Effects</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Basic</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Custom</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Sliding</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Fading</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Semitransparent</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Events</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Forms</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Plug-ins</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>

OUTPUT

When you hover on any menu list :

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