I’ve used YUI Menu in the past for website navigation, and was impressed with it’s ability to handle all sorts of cases like viewport size detection, etc. My current project is centered in jQuery, and I wondering if there’s a good comparable menu system for jQuery. Web searches haven’t turned up an answer to this specific question.
Specific things that YUI Menu does that I am looking for:
- Creates menu from nested list markup in document (
<ul>) - Is fairly simple to style (to match site)
- Progressive enhancement
- Has sub-menu indicators
- Is viewport aware when rendering sub-menus (keeps them in the screen, scrolling)
Two examples from the YUI site:
Perhaps you are looking for something like the Filament Group jQuery UI Menu Plugin. It has some powerful dropdown/flyout options, including some iPod style menus with flyouts, etc.
It also looks like the jQuery UI Menu (in development) can do what you are looking for – take a look at the second example on this page