I need to use a popup menu on my site. I am sure I can easily do this with the standard insert> list/menu command.
Advantage: fast to create
Disadvantage: ugly to look at
I can probably make something nicer with some other tricks. Is there any particular advantage to using the html popup?
–Ted
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Is this popup menu (a select tag in HTML) meant to be part of a form
that you submit to your server? If so, that’s the correct element to
use. The only other type of form input which can replace a select is a
radio button group, because that allows a single choice from a defined
group of options. For a short list of options (2 - 6 or so) the radio
group has a distinct usability advantage over the select, because it
makes the available choices open for immediate scanning, rather than
hiding them inside an opaque widget.
If you are using a select for any purpose besides form value choice,
then you’ll need to explain what you intend to do with it so we can
offer some replacement suggestions.
Walter
On Dec 7, 2010, at 1:51 AM, tedg wrote:
I need to use a popup menu on my site. I am sure I can easily do
this with the standard insert> list/menu command.
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This is not for a form. It is a way of changing a right hand panel to different nav choices.
If the site is a blog, then you can select the nav type on the right to be: by date, by tags, by popular. The popup I mentioned would be the way for the user to switch among these.
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Even if it is triggering a JavaScript, then you’re still invoking a
form element to choose a variable value as opposed to making a
navigation choice, which was why I asked. So you do need a form
element, but you just want it to look different, right?
You might want to look at Form Element Styler ActionsForge - The Complete Repository of Freeway Actions
which can do a lot of different visual things to a form element.
If you post some of the code you’re using at Gist or Pastie, there may
be another way to trigger it, say with a set of hyperlinks rather than
a picking list, and of course that could open up a whole world of
other design choices for you.
Walter
On Dec 7, 2010, at 1:48 PM, tedg wrote:
This is not for a form. It is a way of changing a right hand panel
to different nav choices.If the site is a blog, then you can select the nav type on the right
to be: by date, by tags, by popular. The popup I mentioned would be
the way for the user to switch among these.—Ted
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