Best Javascript drop-down menu? [closed]

Answer 1

Here's my answer using jQuery:

jQuery.fn.ddnav = function() {
        this.wrap("");
        this.each(function() {
                var sel = document.createElement('select');
                jQuery(this).find("li.label, li a").each(function() {
                        jQuery("").val(this.href ? this.href : '').html(jQuery(this).html()).appendTo(sel);
                });
                jQuery(this).hide().after(sel);
        });
        this.parent().find("select").after("");
        var callback = function(button) {
                var url = jQuery(button.target).parent("div").find("select").val();
                if(url.length)
                        window.open(url, "_self")
        };
        this.parent().find("input[type='button']").click(callback);
        this.parent().find("select").change(callback);
        return this;
};

And then in your onready handler:

  $("ul.dropdown_nav").ddnav();

But I would point out that these are terrible for usability. Better to use a list and show people all of the options at once, and it's better to not navigate away after a selection and/or require a different button to be pushed to get to where they want.

I think you're best off never using the above (and I wrote the code!)