Creating drop down menus in JSP using custom tags

Hi, i am working on a JSP which has custom tags for displaying menubar and menus, now i want to have these menus converted into drop down menus, and the submenus displayed onmouseover event. I am getting solutions with pure html page calling javascript functions.But i dont need this, i want the work done by my TagHandler class which sends the output to output stream, which in turn is transformed in to actual HTML by a XSLT embedded in my JSP.
Please help as i am new to custom tags, and desperately in need of help.
If possible give some sample code or useful links.
I will be highly grateful.
Thankx in advance

that's fine, but the tag has to, ultimately, generate the HTML/Javascript stuff like you've already seen.

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> Is SPRY menus the way to go now? It looks quite time
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>I want to know how to make the drop down menus for my
navigation bar. I
>really
> want the menus to pop out to the right. Do I have to buy
a java script to
> do
> this. I am a relativly new developer. I know some HTML
and am just
> learning
> CSS. I am using Dreamweaver to construct my pages. I
dont know java
> scripting and dont know how hard it is to do so don't
know if this is
> something
> I can make on my own or if I can copy one from a free
source or buy one.
> Thanks for any help. aekp
>

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