Floating Menu Script

Description: This cross-browser menu stays static on the left hand corner of the browser via a gentle "floating" action. The result is an non-abrupt, smooth transition to reappearing into view for the menu.

Two interesting features of this script are 1) Support for arbitrary rich HTML, so you can float "anything." 2) The menu can be specified to float either from the top or bottom of the screen (in demo, the later is used).

Simply insert the below code to the END of your document, right above the </BODY> tag.



<script>
if (!document.layers)
document.write('<div id="divStayTopLeft" style="position:absolute">')
</script>


<layer id="divStayTopLeft">


<!--EDIT BELOW CODE TO YOUR OWN MENU-->
<table border="1" width="130" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td width="100%" bgcolor="#FFFFCC">
      <p align="center"><b><font size="4">Menu</font></b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="100%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
      <p align="left"> <a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com">Dynamic Drive</a><br>
       <a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/new.htm">What's New</a><br>
       <a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/hot.htm">What's Hot</a><br>
       <a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/faqs.htm">FAQs</a><br>
       <a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/morezone/">More Zone</a></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<!--END OF EDIT-->


</layer>




<script type="text/javascript">


/*
Floating Menu script-  Roy Whittle (http://www.javascript-fx.com/)
Script featured on/available at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
This notice must stay intact for use
*/


//Enter "frombottom" or "fromtop"
var verticalpos="frombottom"


if (!document.layers)
document.write('</div>')


function JSFX_FloatTopDiv()
{
var startX = 3,
startY = 150;
var ns = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") != -1);
var d = document;
function ml(id)
{
var el=d.getElementById?d.getElementById(id):d.all?d.all[id]:d.layers[id];
if(d.layers)el.style=el;
el.sP=function(x,y){this.style.left=x;this.style.top=y;};
el.x = startX;
if (verticalpos=="fromtop")
el.y = startY;
else{
el.y = ns ? pageYOffset + innerHeight : document.body.scrollTop + document.body.clientHeight;
el.y -= startY;
}
return el;
}
window.stayTopLeft=function()
{
if (verticalpos=="fromtop"){
var pY = ns ? pageYOffset : document.body.scrollTop;
ftlObj.y += (pY + startY - ftlObj.y)/8;
}
else{
var pY = ns ? pageYOffset + innerHeight : document.body.scrollTop + document.body.clientHeight;
ftlObj.y += (pY - startY - ftlObj.y)/8;
}
ftlObj.sP(ftlObj.x, ftlObj.y);
setTimeout("stayTopLeft()", 10);
}
ftlObj = ml("divStayTopLeft");
stayTopLeft();
}
JSFX_FloatTopDiv();
</script>