The result of the next steps will be a User control accessible to keyboard and mouse inputs. At the beginning use your H-TML file, which also includes the JQery library. Add a Menu section which should include the headers and links of your menu. In addition mark headers and links using the a tag. These little changes will make it possible to tab through the links later. The CSS code is not that difficult if you keep it to a minimum. Comments: Noel Hurtley↯ Written on 2007-01-20 at 21:15 Thanks for the great tutorial. Paul Written on 2007-01-23 at 00:35 Great tutorial. Ty Written on 2007-01-24 at 09:12 Sweet, it resizes great I made it as big as a bus, and it still looked fine in firefox, by clicking control + about a zillion times. Klaus Albert Written on 2007-01-26 at 01:49 great solution! My additional request: “open a predefined submenue” My solution: the complete new example:

15 Super-Simple jQuery Menu and Navigation Plugins. There are lots of jQuery menu and navigation plugins freely available that can do anything you could possibly imagine.

We love those innovative and ground-breaking plugins we really do. But, as we are sure you will agree, the most of the time, all we basically need is a lightweight, functional and easy to style solution. Something that we can easily slot into our templates and themes and will work without any major code tinkering and requires only minor CSS tweaks. And that is what we have for you today – 15 Super Simple jQuery Menu and Navigation solutions that should make your work that little bit easier.

Smooth Navigational Menu Smooth Navigation Menus contents can either be from direct markup on the page, or via an external file and fetched via Ajax. jQuery Simple Drop Down Menu This tiny (1kb) and versatile menu has been compiled with only 20 lines of code, achieved by removing various cumbersome mouse events from within the html code making it simpler and lighter. jQuery Basic Menu.

jQuery Performance Rules - Best Practices for Speeding Up jQuery. Once upon a time, all we needed to worry about was reducing Bytes and Requests and playing around with load order to make things faster.

Nowadays, we are increasingly impacting one more major component in performance – CPU utilization. Using jQuery and other frameworks that make selecting nodes and DOM manipulation easy can have adverse affects if you’re not careful and follow some simple practices for reducing the work the browser has to do. 1. Always Descend From an #id The fastest selector in jQuery is the ID selector ($('#someid')). Selecting Single Elements <div id="content"><form method="post" action="/"><h2>Traffic Light</h2><ul id="traffic_light"><li><input type="radio" class="on" name="light" value="red" /> Red</li><li><input type="radio" class="off" name="light" value="yellow" /> Yellow</li><li><input type="radio" class="off" name="light" value="green" /> Green</li></ul><input class="button" id="traffic_button" type="submit" value="Go" /></form></div> Selecting Multiple Elements.

CSS horizontal navigation list.