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General

This script creates a collapsible menu. Unlimited nested sub-links can also be added. The script uses a cookie to remember what portion of the menu the visitor has displayed so it will remain open when he returns to the page. The appearance of the menu can be changed to match any site.

Collapsible Menu with Memory

+ Computing Links

+ More Links

Sub-Link 1
Sub-Link 2
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+ Few More Links

Sub-Link 1
Sub-Link 2
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Microsoft Corp.
Netscape Corp.
Macromedia Inc.
Symantec Corp.
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+ JavaScript Links

+ More Links

Sub-Link 1
Sub-Link 2
Sub-Link 3
Sub-Link 4
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+ Few More Links

Sub-Link 1
Sub-Link 2
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+ Even More Links

Sub-Link 1
Sub-Link 2
Sub-Link 3
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The JS Page
JavaScript Source
Doc JavaScript
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+ PHP Links

PHP Res. Index
PHP Code Excng.
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Another Link 1
Another Link 2
Another Link 3

Notes

Created by: Sandeep Gangadharan
Web Site: http://www.sivamdesign.com/scripts/
Posted: July 14, 2008

Source Code

Paste this source code into the designated areas.

External file

Paste this code into an external JavaScript file named: collapsibleMenuMem.js

/* This script and many more are available free online at
The JavaScript Source!! http://javascript.internet.com
Created by: Sandeep Gangadharan | http://www.sivamdesign.com/scripts/ */

var exp = 5;

function newCookie(name,value,days) {
  if (days) {
    var date = new Date();
    date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
    var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
  } else var expires = "";
  document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
}

function readCookie(name) {
  var nameSG = name + "=";
  var nuller = '';
  if (document.cookie.indexOf(nameSG) == -1)
  return nuller;
  var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
  for(var i=0; i<ca.length; i++) {
    var c = ca[i];
    while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
    if (c.indexOf(nameSG) == 0) return c.substring(nameSG.length,c.length);
  }
  return null;
}

function eraseCookie(name) {
  newCookie(name,"",-1);
}

if (document.getElementById) {
  document.writeln('<style type="text/css">')
  document.writeln('.main {text-decoration:none; color:blue; cursor:hand; cursor:pointer}')
  document.writeln('span:hover.mainLink {text-decoration:underline; color:red}')
  document.writeln('.sublinks1 {display:none; padding-left:14px}')
  document.writeln('.link2 {text-decoration:none; color:blue}')
  document.writeln('a:hover.link2 {text-decoration:underline; color:red}')
  document.writeln('</style>') }

    // Below you should add a1, a2 etc. for each main link you wish to include
    // so if you want 3 main links you should add a1, a2, a3 in the format shown
    // enclosed in double quotes
  var mainNum = new Array("a1","a2","a3");

    // Below you should add b1, b2 etc. for each sub link you wish to include
    // under one main link, here the first main link. so if you want 4 sub links you
    // should add b1, b2, b3, b4 in the format shown enclosed in double quotes
  var subNum1 = new Array("b1","b2");

    // Below, this is for sub links under the second main link. there are 3 sub links
    // in the given example
  var subNum2 = new Array("c1","c2","c3");
 

function openClose(theName, menuArray, theID) {
  for(var i=0; i < menuArray.length; i++) {
    if (menuArray[i] == theID) {
      if (document.getElementById(theID).style.display == "block") {
        document.getElementById(theID).style.display = "none";
        document.getElementById("tick_"+menuArray[i]).innerHTML = "+";
        eraseCookie(theName); }
      else {
        document.getElementById(theID).style.display = "block";
        document.getElementById("tick_"+menuArray[i]).innerHTML = "-";
        newCookie(theName,menuArray[i],exp); }
      }
    else {
      document.getElementById(menuArray[i]).style.display = "none";
      document.getElementById("tick_"+menuArray[i]).innerHTML = "+";
    }
  }
}

function memStatus() {
  var num = readCookie("MN");
  if (num) {
    document.getElementById(num).style.display = "block";
    document.getElementById("tick_"+num).innerHTML = "-"; }
  var num1 = readCookie("SB");
  if (num1) {
    document.getElementById(num1).style.display = "block";
    document.getElementById("tick_"+num1).innerHTML = "-"; }
}

// Multiple onload function created by: Simon Willison
// http://simonwillison.net/2004/May/26/addLoadEvent/
function addLoadEvent(func) {
  var oldonload = window.onload;
  if (typeof window.onload != 'function') {
    window.onload = func;
  } else {
    window.onload = function() {
      if (oldonload) {
        oldonload();
      }
      func();
    }
  }
}

addLoadEvent(function() {
  memStatus();
});

CSS

Paste this code into your external CSS file or in the <style> section within the HEAD section of your HTML document.

.menu1 {
  color:white;
  background: #000;
  font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-weight:bold;
  font-size:12px;
}

.menu2 {
  background: #ffff00;
  color: blue;
  font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-size:12px;
  line-height: 19px;
}

Head

Paste this code into the HEAD section of your HTML document.


<script type="text/javascript" src="collapsibleMenuMem.js"></script>

Body

Paste this code into the BODY section of your HTML document


  <table border="0" width="130" bgcolor="#ffffff" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="background:#ffff00; color:#000000; border:#000000 1px solid">
   <tr>
     <td class="menu1">Collapsible Menu with Memory</td></tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="menu2">
      <div onClick="openClose('MN',mainNum,'a1')" class="main"><span id="tick_a1">+</span> <span class="mainLink">Computing Links</span></div>
      <div id="a1" class="sublinks1">

<!-- below is an example of nested sub-links under the first main link. -->

       <div onClick="openClose('SB',subNum1,'b1')" class="main"><span id="tick_b1">+</span> <span class="mainLink">More Links</span></div>
       <div id="b1" class="sublinks1">
         <a href="http://www.thedomain.com/" class="link2">Sub-Link 1</a><br />
         <a href="http://www.thedomain.com/" class="link2">Sub-Link 2</a><br />-------------<br />
       </div>
       <div onClick="openClose('SB',subNum1,'b2')" class="main"><span id="tick_b2">+</span> <span class="mainLink">Few More Links</span></div>
       <div id="b2" class="sublinks1">
         <a href="http://www.thedomain.com/" class="link2">Sub-Link 1</a><br />
         <a href="http://www.thedomain.com" class="link2">Sub-Link 2</a><br />-------------<br />
       </div>

<!-- end of nested sub-links example. -->

       <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/" class="link2">Microsoft Corp.</a><br />
       <a href="http://home.netscape.com/" class="link2">Netscape Corp.</a><br />
       <a href="http://www.macromedia.com" class="link2">Macromedia Inc.</a><br />
       <a href="http://www.symantec.com" class="link2">Symantec Corp.</a><br />------------------------<br />
      </div>
      <div onClick="openClose('MN',mainNum,'a2')" class="main"><span id="tick_a2">+</span> <span class="mainLink">JavaScript Links</span></div>
      <div id="a2" class="sublinks1">

<!-- below is an example of nested sub-links under the second main link. -->

       <div onClick="openClose('SB',subNum2,'c1')" class="main"><span id="tick_c1">+</span> <span class="mainLink">More Links</span></div>
       <div id="c1" class="sublinks1">
         <a href="http://www.thedomain.com/" class="link2">Sub-Link 1</a><br />
         <a href="http://www.thedomain.com/" class="link2">Sub-Link 2</a><br />
         <a href="http://www.thedomain.com/" class="link2">Sub-Link 3</a><br />
         <a href="http://www.thedomain.com/" class="link2">Sub-Link 4</a><br />-------------<br />
       </div>
       <div onClick="openClose('SB',subNum2,'c2')" class="main"><span id="tick_c2">+</span> <span class="mainLink">Few More Links</span></div>
       <div id="c2" class="sublinks1">
         <a href="http://www.thedomain.com/" class="link2">Sub-Link 1</a><br />
         <a href="http://www.thedomain.com/" class="link2">Sub-Link 2</a><br />-------------<br />
       </div>
       <div onClick="openClose('SB',subNum2,'c3')" class="main"><span id="tick_c3">+</span> <span class="mainLink">Even More Links</span></div>
       <div id="c3" class="sublinks1">
         <a href="http://www.thedomain.com/" class="link2">Sub-Link 1</a><br />
         <a href="http://www.thedomain.com/" class="link2">Sub-Link 2</a><br />
         <a href="http://www.thedomain.com/" class="link2">Sub-Link 3</a><br />-------------<br />
       </div>

<!-- end of nested sub-links example. -->

       <a href="http://www.sivamdesign.com/scripts/" class="link">The JS Page</a><br />
       <a href="http://javascript.internet.com/" class="link2">JavaScript Source</a><br />
       <a href="http://www.docjs.com/" class="link">Doc JavaScript</a><br />------------------------<br />
      </div>
      <div onClick="openClose('MN',mainNum,'a3')" class="main"><span id="tick_a3">+</span> <span class="mainLink">PHP Links</span></div>
      <div id="a3" class="sublinks1">
       <a href="http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/" class="link2">PHP Res. Index</a><br />
       <a href="http://px.sklar.com/" class="link2">PHP Code Excng.</a><br />------------------------<br />
      </div>
      <div>
         <a href="#" class="link">Another Link 1</a><br />
         <a href="#" class="link">Another Link 2</a><br />
         <a href="#" class="link">Another Link 3</a><br />
      </div>
    </td></tr>
  </table>

<!--
  Each collapsible link has 2 DIV tags, one is the main link that opens or closes the collapsible
  links and the other is for the collapsible links. In the first DIV tag the text
  [onClick="openClose('MN',mainNum,'a1')" class="main"] should not be changed and in the second DIV tag
  the text [id="a1" class="sublinks"] is required. As you add more collapsible links the identifier
  'a1' should be incremented for all new links in both DIV tags, for example a2 for link 2, a3 for
  link 3 etc. Also for each collapsible link there is a SPAN tag that changes the + sign to - when
  the menu is expanded. For each SPAN tag also there is text (id="tick_a1"). This identifier
  also needs to be changed by matching the identifier 'a1' to the DIV identifier.

  Each group of sub-links under each main link also should have text [openClose('SB',subNum1,'b1')"
  class="main"]. The text [subNum1] should also be incremented with each main link. For
  example for the main link a1, the sub-links should be ['SB',subNum1,'b1'], ['SB',subNum1,'b2'] etc.
  and for main link a2, the sub-link should be ['SB',subNum2,'c1'], ['SB',subNum2,'c2'] etc.

  Everything else can be modified as per your requirements. Lastly, you can get rid of these comments in
  your documents.
-->

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