SID-00067: How do I create horizontal menus

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Category:	CategoryRendering	Server OS:	debian	Last update:	16 years ago

I want to render this:

• One
• Two
• Three

As Example 1:

One | Two | Three

Or preferably (note the use of the title tag: hover over the number) Example 2:

1 | 2 | 3

This is useful when you split a large document up over a dozen chapters. The horizontal menu allows easy navigation between chapters.

Example 1 can be achieved with a div and styles. It works OK if the chapter titles are short words and there are few chapters. It looks lousy when the chapter titles are meaningful and there are many, because the horizontal menu runs over a couple of lines and is hard to read.

Example 2 can not be achieved with a div and styles, because the title (and in IE the alt) tag need to be inserted. On the other hand this type of menu can fit the whole alphabet on a line. Visitors that refer to the page often remember what the numbers mean. And infrequent visitors get help through the title tag.

I checked the plugins and cannot find a Plugin that does this. Should I write one. Or pick one and extend it? if the latter: Which one?

If I wrote it it could work as follows:

%HORIZONTALMENU{ options here }%
   * [[#AnchorOne][One]]
   * [[#AnchorTwo][Two]]
   * [[#AnchhorThree][Three]]
%ENDHORIZONTALMENU%

Options could be:

• numeric - presenting the menu as 1 | 2 | 3
• alphabetic - presenting the menu as A | B | C
• abbreviated=2 - presenting the menu as On | Tw | Th
• extended - where the plugin accepts the notation [[#AnchorOne][Ch1:One]]

Any suggestions on how to proceed?

• Is there a plugin that does this
• is there a plugin that I should extend
• shall I write a new pluginalong the lines above?

One is here

Two is here

Three is here

-- BramVanOosterhout - 30 Jan 2009

Discussion and Answer

See the Title attribute in LinkOptionsPlugin for the mouseover text.

Then you can build a set of menu items with the list functions of SpreadSheetPlugin

-- SeanCMorgan - 13 Feb 2009

See also NavBarAddOn, TabbedBrowsing.

-- PeterThoeny - 13 Feb 2009

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