Navigation menu help!!

[ashwyn222]

Hi,

My name is Ashwin. I want to be a web designer/developer. I know XHTML and CSS completely and now confident about designing any kind of layout. But now stuck in creating navigation menus(javascript part). I know some javascript also.

I want to learn to create the below navigation menus-
1. Combo menu (Select boxes and message is displayed just below for each selected option).
2. Accordian menus.
3. Tabbed menus (Tabbed menu with each tab hovered or selected a message or menus displayed horizontally in the below row.)
4. Dropdown menu (Horizontal tabbed menu, when each tab hovered or clicked a vertical dropdown is displayed.)
5. All levels navigational menus.
6. Chained select menu.
7. Drilled down menus.
8. Tree menus.

I need a step by step tutorial on each of these. If you guys know any link or helps please let me know that. I wanna learn these things in at the most five days. I have to face interviews shortly.

I am searching for javascripts on internet for the last couple of days but cannot find tutorials(step by step).

Thanks.

 

[elcape]

well with the drop down menu you can use this jquery tutorial

 

[tevih]

You don't need JS to do drop downs any more. Check out the "Son of Suckerfish" tutorial for doing CSS-based drop downs. You will only need a really small JS file just for IE6.

http://htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/

As far as the other types of menus you'd like to create, JQuery would be great - there are plenty of plugins that can help you out over there.

http://jquery.com/

 

[ashwyn222]

Thanks,

I will see into jquery.
One question: Do developers write their own scripts when they have to create customised menus. I hope they won't but from where do they get the code? Also is it necessary to understand the coding?