Hiermenus Go Forth, I - DHTML Lab

Hiermenus Go Forth, I:
Version 4 - The External Arrays

Element 5 - background_color

Description

Sets the background color of all items in a menu tree. All menus in the cascade (top-level and children) are affected.

Value

Hexadecimal color values or color name.
IE-only: CSS decimal RGB color value or user-defined system color.
May be specified as:

Example Values

string: "#6E77E2"

#6E77E2

string: "purple"

All item backgrounds will display in purple.

Default

If omitted, the background color of all items in the menu tree will comply with the color set by the in-page Global Parameter Variables.

Differences from Version 3 equivalent

No difference from Version 3.

Comments

If you are writing for an IE-only environment, for example, a corporate intranet, you can also use:

CSS decimal RGB color values in the form: rgb(red green blue)
Ex. "rgb(89 121 5)"
user-defined system color values. See Column 24 for a complete list of these values.
Ex. "infobackground"

Element 6 - mouseover_background_color

Description

Sets the background color of all highlighted items in a menu tree. All menus in the cascade (top-level and children) are affected.

Value

Hexadecimal color values or color name.
IE-only: CSS decimal RGB color value or user-defined system color.
May be specified as:

Example Values

string: "#FFFF00"

#FFFF00

string: "skyblue"

All item text will display in sky blue.

Default

If omitted, the background color of all highlighted items in the menu tree will comply with the color set by the in-page Global Parameter Variables.

Differences from Version 3 equivalent

No difference from Version 3.

Comments

If you are writing for an IE-only environment, for example, a corporate intranet, you can also use:

CSS decimal RGB color values in the form: rgb(red green blue)
Ex. "rgb(255 255 0)"
user-defined system color values. See Column 24 for a complete list of these values.
Ex. "appworkspace"

On the next page, the array parameter-elements that set border color.