Rollover problems in DW8

Question

Hi,
I'm new to DW and to web development in general.
I'm building a site using a template that I purchased as a
starting point. Each page has a menu bar across the top which uses
a piece of javascript to change the menu image when the user moves
the mouse pointer over it. These rollovers work fine in both
Firefox and IE6, except...
I've created some pages which are identical except that
they're in a subfolder rather than being in the same root folder as
the index.html file. On these pages, the rollover doesn't work - if
you click the menu items the links still work, but the image
doesn't change on rollover. Thikning that it might be because the
relative location of the javascript file has changed, I've tried
moving this and putting a separet copy of the script in the same
subfolder as the html page, but it still doesn't work.
All my images are in a single subfolder which is in turn in
the site root folder. Unfortunately I can't provide a link as the
site hasn't yet been uploaded.
Grateful for any help - thanks,
Rob

Answer 1

Investigate using a server-side include to solve your "every
menu on every
page problem"!
> 1. When I preview in IE6, my security settings stop the
menu from
> working -
> presumably this is because the "swap image" behaviour
still uses
> javascript?
This is only a local problem.
http://www.projectseven.com/support/answers.asp?id=153
And, you can delete the script reference.
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"Rob in France" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:e3fmj1$itc$[email protected]..
> Thanks, Alan. I've now got it working using the "swap
image" behaviour. It
> took
> a while because I had to do it for each menu bar on each
page (the pages
> were
> already created and populated). But it's so easy to do
with DW - I love
> this
> program!
>
> If I may ask two more questions:
>
> 1. When I preview in IE6, my security settings stop the
menu from
> working -
> presumably this is because the "swap image" behaviour
still uses
> javascript?
>
> 2. There' s a line in the code near the top of each page
that says <script
> language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"
src="menu.js"></script>.
> Presumably this is referring to the script that was
previously being used
> to
> change the menu images, and therefore is no longer
needed? (So I assume in
> the
> interests of tidiness I can delete it and the menu.js
file?)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>