Vertical DHTML Menu

[liquidstar]

I've been visiting these forums for a few weeks now, and I finally decided to sign up. A person could just browse these forums for a while and really increase their skill set. Anyway, all that is to lead up to something I couldn't find. I'm looking for a vertical DHTML Menu for site navigation. I know their are rules on posting links, but to give you an idea, I've added a couple of places that use what I'm talking about:

www.hsn.com
www.msnbc.com (I think they use something else, but the idea is what I'm looking at)

I've found a few scripts that are okay, but I'm looking for something better. I would like something that the menu is already there (doesn't have to wait for the whole site to load). Then the navigation would work once the site is loaded. The Olympics page is like this (nbcolympics.com). It is horizontal, and I'm looking for vertical, but the main menu is there, and the sub menu works as soon as everything is loaded. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, I would like for the main menu to be able to use images. Thanks all.

[MikeFoster]

I have a few simple menus in the "Examples" section of my site.
http://cross-browser.com/

[Brett_Tabke]

Blast you Foster! ;) Just when I am ready to write off dom as a complete lost cause, I visit your site and am wow'd every time. That's some great work your doing over there. Some stuff I never thought I'd see in Opera comes across perfectly.

Welcome to the board liquidstar.

[MikeFoster]

LOL! :D

Thanks Brett!

I've always been really impressed with Opera's dedication to standards-compliance. That's why I go to the trouble to support it with my library. When Opera finally supports DOM2 (the rumor: this year) I think it will be a huge embarassment to Microsoft. Unfortunately it may also be embarassing to the Mozilla project (depending on how well Opera performs then) - but I'm confident that Mozilla will get their DOM problems corrected.

Standards may be bad for monopolies - but they're great for consumers!

Have a great day!

[dcbiker]

have you tried hiermenu from [dhtmlab.com...]

[txbakers]

Mike Foster: That's amazing work.

I would add your site and work to a "must-have" collection of tools.

Kudos.

Did I mention I was impressed?

[MikeFoster]

dcbiker: You're right, hiermenu is very nice indeed, well-supported, with many features. My menus are just simple examples of using my library.

txbakers: Thanks very much! My library is in pretty good shape right now, although I still have big plans for it. I'm experimenting with object-detection, as opposed to browser-detection. This should make it much more cross-browser. But this is not something that I can implement quickly - much testing is needed. My site itself is not too great - my real work goes into the library. I'm slowly learning how to use xhtml, make the site more standards compliant, down-gradable, and accessable. Thanks again.