I have searched for a tab menu script for a long time but none of them was flexible enough,then i created one for me. The algorithm is nice so the script is not too long although being flexible.
your tab menu is in an html table row as follows :
I have searched for a tab menu script for a long time but none of them was flexible enough,then i created one for me. The algorithm is nice so the script is not too long although being flexible.
your tab menu is in an html table row as follows :
<tr id="foo">
<td align="left">
<img alt="" src="images/tab_sol.jpg"></td>
<td nowrap="true" align="center" bgcolor="#333333">
foo1 </td>
<td align="right">
<img alt="" src="images/tab_sag.jpg"></td>
<td align="left">
<img alt="" src="images/tabGri_sol.jpg"></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#646464" >
foo2</td>
<td align="right">
<img alt="" src="images/tabGri_sag.jpg"></td>
</tr>
in the bottom of your page just add script below to create <strong class="highlight">menu</strong> from the markup above :
<script type="text/javascript">
tableTabControl("foo");
</script>
required script is as follows :
function tableTabControl(anyTdIdFromTabRow)
{
var nodes = xGetElementById(anyTdIdFromTabRow).childNodes;
for(var i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++)
{
if(nodes[i].childNodes[0].nodeName == "#text" || nodes[i].childNodes[0].nodeName== "A")
{
addEvent( nodes[i],"click",clickFunction);
nodes[i].style.cursor = "hand";
}
}
function clickFunction()
{
for(var i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++)
{
if(nodes[i].childNodes[0].nodeName == "#text" || nodes[i].childNodes[0].nodeName == "A")
{
if( nodes[i] != this)
{
nodes[i].style.backgroundColor = "#646464";
nodes[i].previousSibling.childNodes[0].src="images/tabGri_sol.jpg";
nodes[i].nextSibling.childNodes[0].src="images/tabGri_sag.jpg";
}
else
{
this.style.backgroundColor = "#333333";
this.previousSibling.childNodes[0].src="images/tab_sol.jpg";
this.nextSibling.childNodes[0].src="images/tab_sag.jpg";
}
}
}
}
the following is the crossbrowser generic event registration method :
function addEvent(element, type, handler) {
if (element.addEventListener) {
element.addEventListener(type, handler, false);
} else {
// assign each event handler a unique ID
if (!handler.$$guid) handler.$$guid = addEvent.guid++;
// create a hash table of event types for the element
if (!element.events) element.events = {};
// create a hash table of event handlers for each element/event pair
var handlers = element.events[type];
if (!handlers) {
handlers = element.events[type] = {};
// store the existing event handler (if there is one)
if (element["on" + type]) {
handlers[0] = element["on" + type];
}
}
// store the event handler in the hash table
handlers[handler.$$guid] = handler;
// assign a global event handler to do all the work
element["on" + type] = handleEvent;
}
};
// a counter used to create unique IDs
addEvent.guid = 1;
function removeEvent(element, type, handler) {
if (element.removeEventListener)
{
element.removeEventListener(type, handler, false);
}
else
{
// delete the event handler from the hash table
if (element.events && element.events[type]) {
delete element.events[type][handler.$$guid];
}
}
};
function handleEvent(event) {
var returnValue = true;
// grab the event object (IE uses a global event object)
event = event || fixEvent(((this.ownerDocument || this.document || this).parentWindow || window).event);
// get a reference to the hash table of event handlers
var handlers = this.events[event.type];
// execute each event handler
for (var i in handlers) {
this.$$handleEvent = handlers[i];
if (this.$$handleEvent(event) === false) {
returnValue = false;
}
}
return returnValue;
};
function fixEvent(event) {
// add W3C standard event methods
event.preventDefault = fixEvent.preventDefault;
event.stopPropagation = fixEvent.stopPropagation;
return event;
};
fixEvent.preventDefault = function() {
this.returnValue = false;
};
fixEvent.stopPropagation = function() {
this.cancelBubble = true;
};
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