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.
A twist to the good old JavaScript combo box, this script renders one that's always visible on the visitor's lower right screen. Take site navigation to the next level!
Updated Nov 25th, 2002 for NS6 functionality, plus ability to open links in new window.
This page written with Java Script implements pulldown and go. If you want, you can specify a URL to go with it. If you use it, I would appreciate (but not require) a link back to my home page. Thanks!
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