I'm in the process of learning Javascript and I'm trying to create a simple dropdown menu. An example of my desired functionality can be seen on the google homepage in the top menu with the "more" and "settings" dropdown. Specifially the click off the menu and the menu disappears.
Maybe onblur() isn't the correct function to call. I don't know.
I have this code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<title>Untitled 1</title>
<style type="text/css">
a
{
color:blue;
}
.info ul.submenu
{
border: solid 1px #e0e0e0;
background-color: #fff;
position: absolute;
padding: 0;
z-index: 2;
display: none;
}
.info ul.submenu li
{
display: block;
border-top: solid 1px #e0e0e0;
margin: 0px 10px 0 10px;
}
.info ul.submenu li a
{
display: block;
padding: 7px 0px 6px 0;
color: #1177ee;
cursor:pointer;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function menu(id) {
var myLayer = document.getElementById(id);
myLayer.onblur = function() {
myLayer.style.display = 'none';
};
if (myLayer.style.display == "none" || myLayer.style.display == "") {
myLayer.style.display = "block";
} else {
myLayer.style.display = "none";
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="info">
Some Text Boom A <a onclick="menu('id1');">Link</a> | More text
<a onclick="menu('id2');">Another Link</a> | more text
<ul id="id1" class="submenu">
<li><a href="dfhdfh">A1</a></li>
<li><a href="aetjetjsd">A2 This is Long</a></li>
<li><a href="etetueb">A3</a></li>
</ul>
<ul id="id2" class="submenu">
<li><a href="dfhdfh">B1</a></li>
<li><a href="aetjetjsd">B2</a></li>
<li><a href="etetueb">B3</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The onblur event just simply doesn't work. I have no idea why.
(Yes I know I shouldn't be using a closure)