A good day to all of us brothers in this field of work.This is our 2nd drop down menu so far, here we will be sharing another cool drop down menu designed by dynamicdrive and bloggerized by mybloggertricks.This is a multi level drop down menu wherein it will help you more in organizing your blog important links, and also it will help your readers to easily navigate through your blog since it is our dream to let our users impress our blog as they land on it.The HTML structure of this menu is so easy as you have to use tags, but you have to add a different ul id for a new drop down, that's the little negative side of this drop down menu. But don't worry pal, just follow below steps carefully and you will successfully integrate this menu to your blog.
Step 1. Go to Blogger Dashboard
Step 2. Click Lay- out
Step 3. Hit the Add a Gadget button >> Select the HTML/Javascript
Step 4. In the empty/blank space provided, place the CSS/scriptscript below
Create Multi Level Drop Down Menu In Blogger
Step 1. Go to Blogger Dashboard
Step 2. Click Lay- out
Step 3. Hit the Add a Gadget button >> Select the HTML/Javascript
Step 4. In the empty/blank space provided, place the CSS/scriptscript below
<script src='http://mybloggertricks.googlecode.com/files/dropdownddlevel.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<style>
/* ######### Drop Down Menu by www.Bloggingtipsandtrix.blogspot.com ######### */
.ddsubmenustyle, .ddsubmenustyle div{ /*topmost and sub DIVs, respectively*/
font: normal 13px Verdana;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
list-style-type: none;
background: white;
border: 1px solid black;
border-bottom-width: 0;
visibility: hidden;
z-index: 100;
}
.ddsubmenustyle ul{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
list-style-type: none;
border: 0px none;
}
.ddsubmenustyle li a{
display: block;
width: 170px; /*width of menu (not including side paddings)*/
color: black;
background-color: lightyellow;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 4px 5px;
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}
* html .ddsubmenustyle li{ /*IE6 CSS hack*/
display: inline-block;
width: 170px; /*width of menu (include side paddings of LI A*/
}
.ddsubmenustyle li a:hover{
background-color: black;
color: white;
}
.downarrowpointer{ /*CSS for "down" arrow image added to top menu items*/
padding-left: 4px;
border: 0;
}
.rightarrowpointer{ /*CSS for "right" arrow image added to drop down menu items*/
position: absolute;
padding-top: 3px;
left: 100px;
border: 0;
}
.ddiframeshim{
position: absolute;
z-index: 500;
background: transparent;
border-width: 0;
width: 0;
height: 0;
display: block;
}
/* ######### Black Strip Main Menu Bar CSS ######### */
.mattblackmenu ul{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font: bold 12px Verdana;
list-style-type: none;
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
background: #414141;
overflow: hidden;
width: 100%;
}
.mattblackmenu li{
display: inline;
margin: 0;
}
.mattblackmenu li a{
float: left;
display: block;
text-decoration: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 6px 8px; /*padding inside each tab*/
border-right: 1px solid white; /*right divider between tabs*/
color: white;
background: #414141;
}
.mattblackmenu li a:visited{
color: white;
}
.mattblackmenu li a:hover{
background: black; /*background of tabs for hover state */
}
.mattblackmenu a.selected{
background: black; /*background of tab with "selected" class assigned to its LI */
}
</style>
<div id="ddtopmenubar" class="mattblackmenu">
<ul>
<li><a href="#">LINK1</a></li>
<li><a href="#" rel="ddsubmenu1">LINK2</a></li>
<li><a href="#" rel="ddsubmenu2">LINK3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link4</a></li>
<li><a href="#" rel="ddsubmenu3">LINK5</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
ddlevelsmenu.setup("ddtopmenubar", "topbar") //ddlevelsmenu.setup("mainmenuid", "topbar|sidebar")
</script>
<ul class='ddsubmenustyle' id='ddsubmenu1'>
<li><a href='#'>LINK2 ITEM 1</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK2 ITEM 2</a>
<ul>
<li><a href='#'>LINK2 ITEM 2.1</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK2 ITEM 2.2</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK2 ITEM 3</a>
<ul>
<li><a href='#'>LINK2 ITEM 3.1</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK2 ITEM 4</a></li>
</ul>
<ul class='ddsubmenustyle' id='ddsubmenu2'>
<li><a href='#'>LINK3 ITEM 1</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK3 ITEM 2</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK3 ITEM 3</a>
<ul>
<li><a href='#'>LINK3 ITEM 3.1</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK3 ITEM 3.2</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK3 ITEM 3.3</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK3 ITEM 3.4</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK3 ITEM 4</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK3 ITEM 5</a>
<ul>
<li><a href='#'>LINK3 ITEM 5.1</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK3 ITEM 5.2</a>
<ul>
<li><a href='#'>LINK3 ITEM 5.2 1</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK3 ITEM 5.2 2</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK3 ITEM 5.2 3</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK3 ITEM 6</a></li>
</ul>
<ul class='ddsubmenustyle' id='ddsubmenu3'>
<li><a href='#'>LINK5 ITEM 1</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK5 ITEM 2</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK5 ITEM 3</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK5 ITEM 4</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>LINK5 ITEM 5</a></li>
</ul>
Simple Customizations:
- Replace the # symbols with your page link/URL
- Replace the bolded black texts with Page Titles
- To create a drop down menu inside a Main Menu link simple add to it a rel attribute like rel="ddsubmenu1. Change the drop down number accordingly.
- Normal li and ul rules apply here to create sub menu and sub sub menu links.
- Main links are mentioned first and drop down menu links are mentioned separately after the JavaScript call function.
- To change the background color of the menu simply edit background: #414141
Step 5. Save your widget and you are all done!
Visit your blogs to see the menu working just perfectly. Good Day Pal and Happy Blogging!!!
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