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Question #145
When using the MenuMagicII (MM2) in a frameset or to trigger items in an iframe, is there a way to have the menu button change to the "down state" (default) when clicked? a downstate reset?
The Answer
Prepared May. 2004 by Gerry Jacobsen, PVIIHere's a way to allow the MenuMagicII system to reset the default (down-state) button of the menu when that button is clicked, or when a link in the sub menu is clicked.
1. Add this new JavaScript function, P7_downMM2, to your script file:
function P7_downMM2(ta,bu){ //v1.0 by PVII
if(!document.P7TabBar){return;}
var tk=document.P7dnmm;if(tk){tk.className='';}
ta.className=P7TabProp[4];document.P7dnmm=ta;
P7TabProp[0]=bu;eval("P7_trigMM2('"+bu+"')");
}
2. Next, to deploy this, just place a call to the P7_downMM2 function on the menu button<a> tag or the link. For example, if you want to have the second menu button set to its down state when the button is clicked, add this to the <a> tag onClick event:
onClick="P7_downMM2(this,'p7TBim20')"
The second argument, 'p7TBim20', specifies the name of the button image that you wish to set to the down state. The entire <a> tag for the second menu button would look like this:
<a href="javascript:;" onclick="P7_downMM2(this,'p7TBim20')" onmouseover="P7_trigMM2('p7TBim20')" target="mainFrame">
<img src="../m2img/hbscb2.gif" alt="menu 2" name="p7TBim120" id="p7TBim20" width="117" height="24" border="0">
</a>
3. You can also use this directly on the individual text links in the submenus, again, just add the onClick event to the text link's <a> tag. A sample text link in the submenu would look like this:
<a href="myPage.htm" onclick="P7_downMM2(this,'p7TBim20')" target="mainFrame">Sublink 2.1</a>
This will load the "myPage.htm" file into the main frame of the frameset and also set the second menu button to the down state.
That's it!