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Inside Technique : IE Menu Toolkit
By Scott Isaacs

The Menu Toolkit is a very powerful DHTML menuing library. The Menu Toolkit Library automatically transforms HTML tables in rich HTML menus.

The Menu Toolkit is the quickest and easiest way to add rich HTML menu's to your web-site. This toolkit includes a powerful library that transforms nested tabled into a hierarchical HTML menu bar. The menu toolkit only works in Internet Explorer 4.x for windows or later.

We created the menubar below by defining a simple nested table and using the Menu Toolkit:

In Internet Explorer 4.0, an interactive menu is available.

Over the next few pages, we walk through how to take full advantage of the menu toolkit library. The last page is the menu toolkit wizard that quickly builds menus. First we demonstrate how to define a menu.

Page 1:IE Menu Toolkit
Page 2:Defining Menus
Page 3:Hooking Events
Page 4:Coming Together
Page 5:Build your Menu
Page 6:Download Menu.js