Creating an expanding menu

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Creating an expanding menu

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Anybody have a solution that produces an epanding menu (i.e. click on a menu item drops down a list of sub menu options)? I have an example of a working menu in HTML but I'm not able to get it to work in ProfoundUI.

I've attached the CSS and JavaScript files and the HTML code. I have the JS in my /userdata/html folder, the CSS in my userdata/css folder and the HTML in an HTML container on my record format. The top level menu items appear, but they won't open up the sub menu's when clicked.

If anyone can help me make this example work, or knows of a better way to accomplish this type of menu, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
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Re: Creating an expanding menu

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The implementation would be different based on if it’s something you’re trying to integrate with the Profound UI HTML template, where it will be a global menu throughout the entire application, versus something you’re just trying to put into a record format in a display file.

As a general observation, this JS code is not written in a way that will work well with other environments (it uses the global namespace for variables and functions, overrides windows.onload, etc.). The code is somewhat simple though and might possibly be rewritten the right way to work with Profound UI or created into a custom widget.
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Re: Creating an expanding menu

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Thanks Alex. I'll look into the custom widget. I fairly new to ProfoundUI so I've never done a custon widget. It'll be a good learning experience.
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Re: Creating an expanding menu

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I've been looking for information on creating a custom widget for this. Can anyone give me some guidance with how to create a custom widget?
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