Likno Drop-Down Menu Trees

Likno Drop-Down Menu Trees is more than a cross-browser, platform-independent hierarchical navigation control for your web pages. It's an intuitive and fun way of showing structured information and providing your visitors with the means to manipulate this information in a user-friendly manner.

Menu trees lend themselves as the natural user interface for allowing your visitors to navigate quickly through categories and subcategories of links in your site, while at the same time exposing your sitemap.

Forget the overused, dull styles you've all seen before, now you can select from one of our many original themes comprising of custom icons and styles to suit your individual requirements and dazzle your visitors!

Likno Drop-Down Menu Trees is built using Javascript and DHTML technologies and does not require any plug-ins or extensions to work on your clients' browsers.

You can choose one of the many predefined themes ranging in style from the standard Microsoft Windows tree interface to more interesting and even funny styles which are sure to catch your visitors' attention and keep them coming for more!

You can change the style for the whole tree and even customize each and every item using a different icon and style for the default, mouseover and selected states. The possibilities are endless!

Once your menu tree is ready you can publish it on your website and allow it to...grow! By using our custom javascript API you can allow your visitors' choices to change or rearrange your tree dynamically on their browser. You can add or delete items, and you can sort the items under any branch. You can even generate the menu tree from a database and associate an array of values (e.g. from a recordset) with each leaf.

Major Features Include:

Likno Drop-Down Menu Trees was designed with the end user in mind. Users are accustomed to using tree controls on their every day computer work and require no less than the same functionality from their web-based counterparts.

Simply put, Likno Drop-Down Menu Trees is a complete cross-browser, platform-independent hierarchical navigation control for your web pages (check out product overview).

Some of the main features of Likno Drop-Down Menu Trees are:

• Cross-browser, tested on all major modern browsers and operating systems (MS Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Konqueror & Safari) (*)
• A wide variety of different themes comprising of different icons, CSS styles for the nodes, and background properties. Check out our extensive Theme Gallery!
• Styles can be defined individually for three different states, normal, mouse over and selected
• Icons can be defined for each of the states mentioned above, and for each node, closed or open branch
• Different icons can be individually set for specific nodes (that is, not following the tree theme)
• Any number of CSS classes can be dynamically added and used or changed for different nodes or branches of the tree
• Unlimited number of trees in the same page, each with different styles and properties
• Unlimited nodes and/or levels (depth)
• Use the keyboard arrows to navigate through the tree and expand/collapse branches
• The tree participates in the TAB order of your web page. If you have multiple trees in the same page, you can also use Alt+1, Alt+2, etc. to navigate between them
• Double click or single click to expand/collapse a branch
• Support for either fixed box size trees with scrollbars, or freely expandable
• Trees can be attached to any HTML element on the page
• Support for multiple selection trees (can be used as check boxes), optional use of the CTRL modifier key to add to selection
• Custom context menu with user-defined items, following the tree theme
• Visit link in a target frame, and/or execute a Javascript command when clicking on a node
• Optional tree state persistence across sessions. The state of the tree is saved in a cookie
• Support for tool tips and custom status bar messages on mouse over for each node
• Ability to associate custom user-defined data with each node (and perform sorting and other operations on them)
• Optional auto-collapse property (Microsoft Explorer style)
• Comprehensive client-side API, including functions for manipulating all aspects of the tree, sorting, searching for nodes, dynamically inserting or deleting nodes, selecting a node etc.

(*) Some features may not be available to certain browsers, due to limitations and/or bugs of these browsers.