Drop-down Information-only "menu items"?
Hello,
A client just had an interesting idea that I haven't seen implemented before (though it doesn't seem too difficult). I also searched the forums here, but didn't see anything specifically about this.
What they want is to have a Primary Links-type horizontal menu just under the header area. And when you hover over one of the menu items, rather than have it drop down to show additional links, it opens a box (or "bubble", as she called it) with information about that link.
So for example, one of the menu items would be "Food". Hovering over that would drop down to show this information:
agriculture, diets, co-ops, genetic engineering, organic foods, more...
... and that would fit into the area normally used for a drop-down menu item (though it would be expanded vertically to show the additional text involved). There would be no link involved, just the information.
Has anyone done or seen anything like this in Drupal? I'm also wondering if Nice_Menus could be modified, or if there's a more tailor-made solution out there? Basically I think this is an interesting idea, and any advice/feedback would be appreciated.
Jim
The answer?
Okay, it looks like the answer may be tooltips. Drupal currently has these modules:
http://drupal.org/project/jtooltips
http://drupal.org/project/cluetip
http://drupal.org/project/hovertip
The only problem is, they usually display whatever's been set for the link's "Title" in the HTML. So this could work for primary links, though I'm not sure how to get custom text for the "Title" as Drupal normally just duplicates the Link Name for that.
The other thing I'm wondering is if there's some way to tell one of these modules to only work on the primary links, and not for other links on the site.
So the more I think about it, the more it would be great to hear some other alternative ideas!
Jim