How To Use Vertical TinyDropdown 2

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Hi guys, today I wanna share to you the code I tweaked with this amazing multi-level JavaScript Dropdown Menu by Scriptiny.

In my opinion, it looks fast, smooth and clean.

The hover animation is really nice. I love it.

But there’s a problem. The script provided by Scriptiny is for horizontal dropdown menu only (as you can see in the picture above). But I needed it to be a vertical dropdown menu like some people were asking about. I’m gonna show you the example code I tweaked to make this a vertical dropdown menu.

Our index.html code looks like the following.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=iso-8859-1” />
        <title>TinyDropdown 2 Vertical Version</title>
         
        <link rel=“stylesheet” href=“tinydropdown.css” type=“text/css” />
        <script type=“text/javascript” src=“tinydropdown.js”></script>
         
    </head>
<body>
     
     
<div class=“nav”>
    <ul id=“menu” class=“menu”>
        <li>
            <span>One</span>
            <ul style=‘top: 0; margin-left: 170px;’>
                <li><a href=“#”>One</a></li>
                <li><a href=“#”>Two</a></li>
                <li><a href=“#”>Three</a></li>  
                <li><a href=“#”>Four</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
         
        <li>
            <span>Two</span>
            <ul style=‘top: 0; margin-left: 170px;’>
             
                <li>
                    <a href=“#”>One</a>
                    <ul>
                        <li><a href=“#”>One</a></li>
                        <li><a href=“#”>Two</a>
                            <ul>
                                <li><a href=“#”>One</a></li>
                            </ul>
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
                 
                <li><a href=“#”>Two</a></li>
                 
            </ul>
        </li>
         
        <li>
            <span>Three</span>
            <ul style=‘top: 0; margin-left: 170px;’>
                <li><a href=“#”>One</a></li>
                <li><a href=“#”>Two</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li>
            <span>Four</span>
            <ul style=‘top: 0; margin-left: 170px;’>
                <li><a href=“#”>One</a></li>
                <li><a href=“#”>Two</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li>
            <span><a href=‘#’>Five</a></span>
        </li>
         
    </ul>
</div>
<script type=“text/javascript”>
    var dropdown=new TINY.dropdown.init(“dropdown”, {id:’menu’, active:’menuhover’});
</script>
 
</body>
</html>

Our tinydropdown.css code:

*{
    margin:0; 
    padding:0; 
    outline:0;
}
.nav {
    height:auto; 
    width: 170px; 
    float:left; 
    background:#aaa; 
    color:#fff; 
    /*text-shadow:1px 1px #888; */
    z-index:1000;
}
 
.menu a {
    color:#fff; 
    text-decoration:none; 
    width:170px; 
    height:auto; 
    display:block;
}
 
.menu span {
    color:#fff; 
    text-decoration:none; 
    width:170px; 
    height:auto; 
    font-weight:bold;
    display:block;
}
 
.menu a:hover {
    color:#fff; 
    height:auto; 
    background:#999;
    display:block;
    height:auto;
    width:170px;
}
 
.menu {
    list-style:none; 
    font:16px Arial,Verdana; 
    text-align:center; 
    width:600px; 
    margin:0 auto;
}
 
.menu li {
    position:relative;
    width:170px; 
    z-index:1000;
    height:auto; 
    line-height:30px;
    background:#AAAAAA;
    /*line-height:28px; this is responsible for line height*/
    border-bottom:thin solid #fff;
     
}
 
.menu ul {
    display:none; 
    position:absolute; 
    font:normal 16px Arial,Verdana; 
    top:36px; 
    left:0; 
    background:#aaa; 
    display:none; 
    list-style:none;
}
 
.menu ul li {
    float:none; 
    width:170px;
    display:block;
}
 
.menu ul li a, li.menuhover li a, li.menuhover li.menuhover li a {
    float:none; 
    display:block; 
    background:none; 
    height:auto; 
     
    width:170px;
    display:block;
     
}
 
.menu ul li a:hover, li.menuhover li a:hover, li.menuhover li.menuhover li a:hover {
    background:#999; 
    color:#fff;
    height:auto; 
     
    width:170px;
    display:block;
     
}
 
.menu ul li span, li.menuhover li span, li.menuhover li.menuhover li span {
    float:none; 
    display:block; 
    background:none; 
    height:auto; 
     
     
    width:170px;
}
 
.menu ul ul {
    left:170px; 
    top:0;
}
.menu li.submenu {
     
}
 
.menu li.noborder {
    border-top:none;
}
 
li.menuhover a, li.menuhover li.menuhover a {
    color:#fff; 
    background:#999; 
    height:auto; 
     
    width:170px;
    display:block;
     
}
 
li.menuhover span, li.menuhover li.menuhover span {
    color:#fff; 
    background:#999;
    height:auto; 
     
    width:170px;
    display:block;
     
}
 
#info {
    width:180px; 
    background:#eee;
}
 
#info li {
    width:160px; 
    border-top:none; 
    padding:8px 10px; 
    color:#666; 
    /*text-shadow:1px 1px #fff; */
    text-align:left;
}

Our tinydropdown.js code:

var TINY={};
function T$(i){return document.getElementById(i)}
function T$$(e,p){return p.getElementsByTagName(e)}
 
TINY.dropdown=function(){
    var p={fade:1,slide:1,active:0,timeout:200}, init=function(n,o){
        for(s in o){p[s]=o[s]} p.n=n; this.build()
    };
    init.prototype.build=function(){
        this.h=[]; this.c=[]; this.z=1000;
        var s=T$$(‘ul’,T$(p.id)), l=s.length, i=0; p.speed=p.speed?p.speed*.1:.5;
        for(i;i<l;i++){
            var h=s[i].parentNode; this.h[i]=h; this.c[i]=s[i];
            h.onmouseover=new Function(p.n+‘.show(‘+i+‘,1)’);
            h.onmouseout=new Function(p.n+‘.show(‘+i+‘)’)
        }
    };
    init.prototype.show=function(x,d){
        var c=this.c[x], h=this.h[x];
        clearInterval(c.t); clearInterval(c.i); c.style.overflow=‘hidden’;
        if(d){
            if(p.active&&h.className.indexOf(p.active)==-1){h.className+=‘ ‘+p.active}
            if(p.fade||p.slide){
                c.style.display=‘block’;
                if(!c.m){
                    if(p.slide){
                        c.style.visibility=‘hidden’; c.m=c.offsetHeight; c.style.height=‘0’; c.style.visibility=”
                    }else{
                        c.m=100; c.style.opacity=0; c.style.filter=‘alpha(opacity=0)’
                    }
                    c.v=0
                }
                if(p.slide){
                    if(c.m==c.v){
                        c.style.overflow=‘visible’
                    }else{
                        c.style.zIndex=this.z; this.z++; c.i=setInterval(function(){slide(c,c.m,1)},20)
                    }
                }else{
                    c.style.zIndex=this.z; this.z++; c.i=setInterval(function(){slide(c,c.m,1)},20)
                }
            }else{
                c.style.zIndex=this.z; c.style.display=‘block’
            }
        }else{
            c.t=setTimeout(function(){hide(c,p.fade||p.slide?1:0,h,p.active)},p.timeout)
        }
    };
    function hide(c,t,h,s){
        if(s){h.className=h.className.replace(s,”)}
        if(t){c.i=setInterval(function(){slide(c,0,-1)},20)}else{c.style.display=‘none’}
    }
    function slide(c,t,d){
        if(c.v==t){
            clearInterval(c.i); c.i=0;
            if(d==1){
                if(p.fade){c.style.filter=”; c.style.opacity=1}
                c.style.overflow=‘visible’
            }
        }else{
            c.v=(t–Math.floor(Math.abs(t–c.v)*p.speed)*d);
            if(p.slide){c.style.height=c.v+‘px’}
            if(p.fade){var o=c.v/c.m; c.style.opacity=o; c.style.filter=‘alpha(opacity=’+(o*100)+‘)’}
        }
    }
    return{init:init}
}();

The output of the codes above will look like this:

Also, if you want my version of its horizontal dropdown menu, output looks like this:

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