This script is almost identical to the Select and Go script, but it opens the address in a new popup window. You can set the new window to have a height, width, etc. or just leave it to open as a normal new window.
Fill in the required information
Generate the source (button at bottom)
Preview your script (button at bottom)
Copy and Paste the 'Source Code' into your HTML page
Note
If you choose Load selected page immediately, no action occurs for the first Link URL.
Leave Link URL blank on the lines where you want the text entry to act as a divider or a menu header.
Based on Xin's great Chained Selects script, we modified it here to specifically act as a navigational menu. It includes a helper function that loops through the interdependant select lists, and if an "end selection" has been made, takes the user to that selection's value (aka URL). Also supports opening the URLs in a new window. You can use this script to create a multi-level form menu of any dimension.
New! Script now supports a persistent feature, implemented using session cookies. With it enabled, the script remembers and loads the last selection lists of the user when page is reloaded or returned to. See updated docs for more info.
Demo: In the example below: 1) empty lists are disabled, 2) persistent feature is turned on (try reloading page). 3) The selected value is simply alerted for illustration.
The navigation menu above works by using the onChange function of the SELECT object to tell the window to load a new document. The URLs of the documents to jump to are given by the VALUE of the various OPTION tags contained in the SELECT.
This kind of navigation tool has the advantage that it takes up less space than a conventional menu made of text or image links, or an image map. Unfortunately, it also has some disadvantages.
One problem is that the navigation menu will take on the appearance of standard menus on whatever platform your visitors are using, which is likely to clash with whatever look and feel you have chosen for your pages on at least some platforms.
A more serious disadvantage is that this technique depends on JavaScript. As such, if you use it as the only method of navigation on your site, you will close your pages to users who have disabled JavaScript on their browser, as well as those who don't have JavaScript-capable browsers. As more and more sites use JavaScript to assault their visitors with pop-up dialogs, scrolling tickers, extra windows, layers and other assorted irritations, more and more Web users are likely to disable JavaScript so it is unwise to rely on it as the only way for people to get around your site.
Description: A drop down menu generator that allows you to make a form-based drop down menu for your site without knowing how to code any Java Script or HTML.You can define text, font, color, URL and other settings for the script with this tool.
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