Hi all!
Please bear with me, since I am completely unsure on how to ask this question.
What I’m wanting to do is have a page where the alphabet is displayed at the top, and when the user clicks a letter, a display appears below with the relevant links.
Like this:
A|B|C|D|etc.
User clicks “A” and below the line of letters, the list of “A” links show up:
Abner
Agatha
Andy
Amos
etc.
And each of those listed is a link to open a new window that displays the information about, say, “Amos”.
Now, I understand that you can do this via scripts, but I’m a script-idiot. I looked at show/hide layer, but that seems to be about graphics, not links, unless I’ve missed something?
Can someone point me in the right direction to a (hopefully) simple solution? Bear in mind that I know enough to insert the proper things into a script but writing one is WAY beyond my skills.
TIA!
Nancy
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What you describe sounds like a horizontal drop-down menu. Experience tells
me that such things are not easy for novices, but are also not
impossible. There are probably even actions for that.
As I am a do-it-yourselfer type, I would start with a list and use CSS
styling to fashion a menu.
A
Abernathy
Adrian
Ames
B
Baldwin
Boscoe
Byron
and so forth. The advantage of list structures is they still make sense
should styles breakdown in the user’s browser. Here are a couple of
examples of my own:
http://cssway.thebigerns.com/workbench/basic-css-menu/
http://cssway.thebigerns.com/workbench/css-dropdown-example/
Best,
Ernie Simpson
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Nancy Godfrey email@hiddenwrote:
Hi all!
Please bear with me, since I am completely unsure on how to ask this
question.
What I’m wanting to do is have a page where the alphabet is displayed at
the top, and when the user clicks a letter, a display appears below with
the relevant links.
Like this:
A|B|C|D|etc.
User clicks “A” and below the line of letters, the list of “A” links show
up:
Abner
Agatha
Andy
Amos
etc.
And each of those listed is a link to open a new window that displays the
information about, say, “Amos”.
Now, I understand that you can do this via scripts, but I’m a
script-idiot. I looked at show/hide layer, but that seems to be about
graphics, not links, unless I’ve missed something?
Can someone point me in the right direction to a (hopefully) simple
solution? Bear in mind that I know enough to insert the proper things into
a script but writing one is WAY beyond my skills.
TIA!
Nancy
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Thanks for the response, Ernie!
That isn’t quite what I was thinking of. Here’s a page where it’s a bit closer to what I’m looking for:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/popular.php?character=A
What I’m envisioning would be a fair bit simpler than this, though. I do however know bupkis about scripting so I’m thinking I’ll need pointers in that direction 
Nancy
On 2012-08-17, at 8:44 PM, Ernie Simpson wrote:
What you describe sounds like a horizontal drop-down menu. Experience tells
me that such things are not easy for novices, but are also not
impossible. There are probably even actions for that.
As I am a do-it-yourselfer type, I would start with a list and use CSS
styling to fashion a menu.
A
Abernathy
Adrian
Ames
B
Baldwin
Boscoe
Byron
and so forth. The advantage of list structures is they still make sense
should styles breakdown in the user’s browser. Here are a couple of
examples of my own:
http://cssway.thebigerns.com/workbench/basic-css-menu/
thebigerns.com
Best,
Ernie Simpson
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Nancy Godfrey email@hiddenwrote:
Hi all!
Please bear with me, since I am completely unsure on how to ask this
question.
What I’m wanting to do is have a page where the alphabet is displayed at
the top, and when the user clicks a letter, a display appears below with
the relevant links.
Like this:
A|B|C|D|etc.
User clicks “A” and below the line of letters, the list of “A” links show
up:
Abner
Agatha
Andy
Amos
etc.
And each of those listed is a link to open a new window that displays the
information about, say, “Amos”.
Now, I understand that you can do this via scripts, but I’m a
script-idiot. I looked at show/hide layer, but that seems to be about
graphics, not links, unless I’ve missed something?
Can someone point me in the right direction to a (hopefully) simple
solution? Bear in mind that I know enough to insert the proper things into
a script but writing one is WAY beyond my skills.
TIA!
Nancy
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Hey Nancy.
I still see no need for scripting. Your example looks to me like a separate
page for each letter, with each letter at the top linking to its page. All
the entries under “A” on one page, each linked to a page with its
definition.
A lot of pages and typing, but nothing requiring a script. Do you know how
to make text links to pages in Freeway Pro?
–
Ernie Simpson
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Nancy Godfrey email@hiddenwrote:
Thanks for the response, Ernie!
That isn’t quite what I was thinking of. Here’s a page where it’s a bit
closer to what I’m looking for:
Urban Dictionary: Words in A
What I’m envisioning would be a fair bit simpler than this, though. I do
however know bupkis about scripting so I’m thinking I’ll need pointers in
that direction
Nancy
On 2012-08-17, at 8:44 PM, Ernie Simpson wrote:
What you describe sounds like a horizontal drop-down menu. Experience
tells
me that such things are not easy for novices, but are also not
impossible. There are probably even actions for that.
As I am a do-it-yourselfer type, I would start with a list and use CSS
styling to fashion a menu.
A
Abernathy
Adrian
Ames
B
Baldwin
Boscoe
Byron
and so forth. The advantage of list structures is they still make sense
should styles breakdown in the user’s browser. Here are a couple of
examples of my own:
http://cssway.thebigerns.com/workbench/basic-css-menu/
thebigerns.com
Best,
Ernie Simpson
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Nancy Godfrey <email@hidden
wrote:
Hi all!
Please bear with me, since I am completely unsure on how to ask this
question.
What I’m wanting to do is have a page where the alphabet is displayed at
the top, and when the user clicks a letter, a display appears below with
the relevant links.
Like this:
A|B|C|D|etc.
User clicks “A” and below the line of letters, the list of “A” links
show
up:
Abner
Agatha
Andy
Amos
etc.
And each of those listed is a link to open a new window that displays
the
information about, say, “Amos”.
Now, I understand that you can do this via scripts, but I’m a
script-idiot. I looked at show/hide layer, but that seems to be about
graphics, not links, unless I’ve missed something?
Can someone point me in the right direction to a (hopefully) simple
solution? Bear in mind that I know enough to insert the proper things
into
a script but writing one is WAY beyond my skills.
TIA!
Nancy
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My first question would be - how many of these do you reckon you will have?
Here is a very quick (and rough/unstyled) example which uses the CSS Menu action - and content from the Urban Dictionary you linked to.
http://www.deltadesign.co/menu_stuff/alphabet.html
David
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