Note: You can see this code in action at one of my projects at Pioneer Videography’s website.

I have received a few requests from friends and coworkers to discuss a sliding menu that I created for a client using the scriptaculous javascript library. If you haven’t yet heard of scriptaculous, it’s a simple web 2.0 javascript library that many people use for adding Flash-like effects to their web applications. It is freely downloadable here.

There are many plusses and minuses to using scriptaculous, but the one thing to keep in mind is that if you think your visitors will be coming to your site with javascript turned off, they are not going to be able to use your site due to the fact that your menu links will not expand.

The first step to creating a sliding menu is to add the necessary scriptaculous and prototype js files to your page. Expand your downloaded files into a “scripts” directory in the root of your web site and put the following tags in the head of every page that will use the scriptaculous libraries. If you want to lighten the amount of javascript that you use, don’t use the “scripts/scriptaculous.js” script, but instead import just the scripts that you need, suchas “effects.js”. Put the following in the HEAD section of your html





..To be continued…

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