What type of menu bar is this?

Question

I'm going to be building a CSS menu bar into a site much like the one at http://www.mightyleaftea.com

I've heard of dropdown menus, but what is the type of menu at mightleaftea.com called? Oh, and more recently http://www.whitehouse.gov/

This is programming related. I have to build the menu...

Answer 1

It looks like a dropdown menu using javascript.

Answer 2

I would still call it a drop down menu. It just so happens that the drop-down part has more going on inside than a typical html list of links.

Answer 3

It looks like it's just a simple DHTML menu.

Basically all their doing is display setting of them menu div when you hover over the link.

something like:

document.getElementById('menu_div').style.display = 'block';

then on mouse out you would have

document.getElementById('menu_div').style.display = 'none';

Answer 4

It's look like some kind of suckerfish.

Answer 5

It looks like a regular hierarchical dropdown menu to me.

Try this alistapart dropdowns article.