Extension:Chrome Menu

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ChromeMenu Release status: beta
Description	Create pages with "Dropdown Menus"
Author(s)	Eric Fortin (Kenyu73talk)
Last version	0.1 - 4/25/2009
License	GPL
Download	download
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This allows the author to create dropdown menus easily within a page. The links are Wiki syntax compatible.

• dedicated CSS file for easy customization
• dedicated Javascript file

Based off the javascript code from Dynamic Drive

Usage

<menu name=myMenu align=center>
menu1=
  [http://www.drudgereport.com DrudgeReport]
  [http://www.MediaWiki.com MediaWiki]
  [[SomeWikiPage]]
|-|
menu2=
  [http://www.maxkeiser.com MaxKeiser]
  [http://www.google.com Google]
</menu>

• Menus are delimited by: "|-|"
• Menus must have unique names if more than one used per wiki page

Installation

To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

require_once("$IP/extensions/ChromeMenu/ChromeMenu.php");

• Note: As of beta version 0.1, I have the following hardcoded in chrome.js, which may or may not need to be changed for other wiki installs. Please note that the code uses mediawiki by default. Most sites will probably have to change this to get the menu arrow gifs to display.

offsetLeft: -150, // this sets the dropdown location
offsetTop: -35, // this sets the dropdown location
dropdownindicator: '<img src="/mediawiki/extensions/ChromeMenu/down.gif" border="0" />',

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