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CSS MENUS › A graphic fly-out menu

Date : 26th March 2006

For all modern browsers

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Information

Another flyout menu, but this time using background images to create the menu and sub-menu links.

This one also has a flicker free change of graphic on hover.

This works in IE5.5, IE6, IE7 beta, Firefox 1.5 and Opera 8. It should also work in Netscape 8, Mozilla and Safari. It will not work on IE5.01 or IE5 Mac.

Cascading Style Sheet

Because a lot of visitors are having trouble with the conditional comments and the cascading style sheets for this menu I have now removed the CSS to separate files and now show how to load these into the page.

If you look at the header of this page you will see that the normal method of loading a file is used for the non-ie browser css.

<link rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" href="css/fly_wall.css" />

The fly_wall.css file

The IE only style sheet is loaded using the conditional comment.

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" href="css/fly_wall_ie.css" />
<![endif]-->

The fly_wall_ie.css file

The html

The html code for the flyout menu can be seen here in text format.

You will see that conditional comments have been used to hold the IE specific version of the menu which used nested tables. The other browsers will not see the tables and instead will use the normal unordered lists.

Please note that you will also need a standards compliant !doctype for this menu to work correctly.

Copyright

Because of all the time and effort spent in producing this demonstration I would ask that you respect my copyright.

1. If you are using this on a personal web site then please retain the copyright comment in the stylesheet.
   A support donation is now required for this demonstration.
2. If you are using this on a commercial web site, or as a paying job for a client, then please email me asking for permission - stu{at}cssplay.co.uk and again a support donation is required.
3. If you are having problems integrating any of my demonstrations into your website then I now offer a service to fault find and correct any errors that you may have introduced. Please email me for more information.

Terms and Conditions

This demonstration can be used subject to the following terms and conditions.

1. If you wish to use this demonstration in your website(s) please email me stu{at}cssplay.co.uk seeking permission.
2. You may NOT place this demonstration on another site for others to download.
3. You may NOT redistrubute or resell this demonstration.
4. Users agree not to remove or edit the credit notice within the stylesheet, or claim that this demonstration is their own.
5. Please see the Copyright statement above regarding the requirement for a support donation.