Hello, I'm stuck and would like some help. I have a horizontal tab structure with subtabs. Right now the main tabs are activated onclick and they show their respective subtabs. I would like to add the same functionality to the subtabs so that when they are clicked, the style changes and the clicked subtab shows as active. I would also like to have the cookies applied to the subtabs and subtab contents as well. Can anyone please help? Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Untitled Document</title> <style type="text/css"> body{ font-family: Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top:0px; } .bodyText{ padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px; border-top:1px solid #000000; } .bodyText p{ margin-top:5px; } #mainContainer{ width:760px; height:600px; border:1px solid #000000; margin:0 auto; background-image:url('../../images/heading3.gif'); background-repeat:no-repeat; padding-top:85px; } #mainMenu{ background-color: #FFF; /* Background color of main menu */ font-family: Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, Arial, sans-serif; /* Fonts of main menu items */ font-size:0.9em; /* Font size of main menu items */ border-bottom:1px solid #000000; /* Bottom border of main menu */ height:30px; /* Height of main menu */ position:relative; /* Don't change this position attribute */ } #mainMenu a{ padding-left:5px; /* Spaces at the left of main menu items */ padding-right:5px; /* Spaces at the right of main menu items */ font-weight:bold; /* Don't change these two options */ position:absolute; bottom:-1px; /* Change this value to -2px if you're not using a strict doctype */ } #submenu{ font-family: Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, Arial, sans-serif; /* Font of sub menu items */ background-color:#E2EBED; /* Background color of sub menu items */ width:100%; /* Don't change this option */ } #submenu div{ white-space:nowrap; /* Don't change this option */ } /* Style attributes of active menu item */ #mainMenu .activeMenuItem{ /* Border options */ border-left:1px solid #000000; border-top:1px solid #000000; border-right:1px solid #000000; background-color: #E2EBED; /* Background color */ cursor:pointer; } #mainMenu .activeMenuItem img{ position:absolute; bottom:0px; right:0px; } #mainMenu .inactiveMenuItem{ color: #000; cursor:pointer; } #submenu a{ text-decoration:none; padding-left:5px; padding-right:5px; color: #000; font-size:0.9em; } #submenu a:hover{ color: #FF0000; /* Red color when the user moves the mouse over sub menu items */ } </style> <script type="text/javascript"> var menuAlignment = 'left'; // Align menu to the left or right? var topMenuSpacer = 0; // Horizontal space(pixels) between the main menu items var activateSubOnClick = false; // if true-> Show sub menu items on click, if false, show submenu items onmouseover var leftAlignSubItems = false; // left align sub items t var activeMenuItem = false; // Don't change this option. It should initially be false var activeTabIndex = 0; // Index of initial active tab (0 = first tab) - If the value below is set to true, it will override this one. var rememberActiveTabByCookie = true; // Set it to true if you want to be able to save active tab as cookie var MSIE = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE')>=0?true:false; var Opera = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Opera')>=0?true:false; var navigatorVersion = navigator.appVersion.replace(/.*?MSIE ([0-9]\.[0-9]).*/g,'$1')/1; function Get_Cookie(name) { var start = document.cookie.indexOf(name+"="); var len = start+name.length+1; if ((!start) && (name != document.cookie.substring(0,name.length))) return null; if (start == -1) return null; var end = document.cookie.indexOf(";",len); if (end == -1) end = document.cookie.length; return unescape(document.cookie.substring(len,end)); } // This function has been slightly modified function Set_Cookie(name,value,expires,path,domain,secure) { expires = expires * 60*60*24*1000; var today = new Date(); var expires_date = new Date( today.getTime() + (expires) ); var cookieString = name + "=" +escape(value) + ( (expires) ? ";expires=" + expires_date.toGMTString() : "") + ( (path) ? ";path=" + path : "") + ( (domain) ? ";domain=" + domain : "") + ( (secure) ? ";secure" : ""); document.cookie = cookieString; } function showHide() { if(activeMenuItem){ activeMenuItem.className = 'inactiveMenuItem'; var theId = activeMenuItem.id.replace(/[^0-9]/g,''); document.getElementById('submenu_'+theId).style.display='none'; var img = activeMenuItem.getElementsByTagName('IMG'); if(img.length>0)img[0].style.display='none'; } var img = this.getElementsByTagName('IMG'); if(img.length>0)img[0].style.display='inline'; activeMenuItem = this; this.className = 'activeMenuItem'; var theId = this.id.replace(/[^0-9]/g,''); document.getElementById('submenu_'+theId).style.display='block'; if(rememberActiveTabByCookie){ Set_Cookie('dhtmlgoodies_tab_menu_tabIndex','index: ' + (theId-1),100); } } function initMenu() { var mainMenuObj = document.getElementById('mainMenu'); var menuItems = mainMenuObj.getElementsByTagName('A'); if(document.all){ mainMenuObj.style.visibility = 'hidden'; document.getElementById('submenu').style.visibility='hidden'; } if(rememberActiveTabByCookie){ var cookieValue = Get_Cookie('dhtmlgoodies_tab_menu_tabIndex') + ''; cookieValue = cookieValue.replace(/[^0-9]/g,''); if(cookieValue.length>0 && cookieValue<menuItems.length){ activeTabIndex = cookieValue/1; } } var currentLeftPos = 15; for(var no=0;no<menuItems.length;no++){ if(activateSubOnClick)menuItems[no].onclick = showHide; else menuItems[no].onmouseover = showHide; menuItems[no].id = 'mainMenuItem' + (no+1); if(menuAlignment=='left') menuItems[no].style.left = currentLeftPos + 'px'; else menuItems[no].style.right = currentLeftPos + 'px'; currentLeftPos = currentLeftPos + menuItems[no].offsetWidth + topMenuSpacer; var img = menuItems[no].getElementsByTagName('IMG'); if(img.length>0){ img[0].style.display='none'; if(MSIE && !Opera && navigatorVersion<7){ img[0].style.bottom = '-1px'; img[0].style.right = '-1px'; } } if(no==activeTabIndex){ menuItems[no].className='activeMenuItem'; activeMenuItem = menuItems[no]; var img = activeMenuItem.getElementsByTagName('IMG'); if(img.length>0)img[0].style.display='inline'; }else menuItems[no].className='inactiveMenuItem'; if(!document.all)menuItems[no].style.bottom = '-1px'; if(MSIE && navigatorVersion < 6)menuItems[no].style.bottom = '-2px'; } var mainMenuLinks = mainMenuObj.getElementsByTagName('A'); var subCounter = 1; var parentWidth = mainMenuObj.offsetWidth; while(document.getElementById('submenu_' + subCounter)){ var subItem = document.getElementById('submenu_' + subCounter); if(leftAlignSubItems){ // No action }else{ var leftPos = mainMenuLinks[subCounter-1].offsetLeft; document.getElementById('submenu_'+subCounter).style.paddingLeft = leftPos + 'px'; subItem.style.position ='absolute'; if(subItem.offsetWidth > parentWidth){ leftPos = leftPos - Math.max(0,subItem.offsetWidth-parentWidth); } subItem.style.paddingLeft = leftPos + 'px'; subItem.style.position ='static'; } if(subCounter==(activeTabIndex+1)){ subItem.style.display='block'; }else{ subItem.style.display='none'; } subCounter++; } if(document.all){ mainMenuObj.style.visibility = 'visible'; document.getElementById('submenu').style.visibility='visible'; } document.getElementById('submenu').style.display='block'; } window.onload = initMenu; </script> </head> <body> <!-- This is the start of the menu --> <div id="mainMenu"> <a>Products</a> <a>Support</a> <a>About us</a> <a>Download</a> </div> <div id="submenu"> <!-- The first sub menu --> <div id="submenu_1"> <a href="javascript:void(0);">Product 1</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);">Product 2</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);">Product 3</a> </div> <!-- Second sub menu --> <div id="submenu_2"> <a href="javascript:void(0);">Phone</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);">Email</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);">Knowledge base</a> </div> <!-- Third sub menu --> <div id="submenu_3"> <a href="javascript:void(0);">History</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);">The team</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);">Contact us</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);">Visions</a> </div> <!-- Fourth sub menu --> <div id="submenu_4"> <a href="javascript:void(0);">Patches</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);">Whitepapers</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);">Tab menu</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);">Color picker</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);">Window scripts</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);">Games</a> </div> </div> </body> </html>
Honestly, The only way you'll learn this effectively is if you stop using templates and learn CSS/JavaScript, and everything about the languages.
