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# YUI Library Examples: Menu Family: Website Left Nav Using Animation With Submenus Built From Markup

# Menu Family: Website Left Nav Using Animation With Submenus Built From Markup

This example demonstrates how to create a traditional, two-column page layout (using Grids) with a set of animated fly-out menu navigation in the left column.

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Begin by placing the markup for the two-column Grid on the page (this example uses the Grids Preset Template 1, 160px left). Next add the Menu markup to the left column of the grid.

Use the `onContentReady` method of the Event utility to instantiate the Menu as soon as its markup is available for scripting.

/* Initialize and render the Menu when its elements are ready to be scripted. */ YAHOO.util.Event.onContentReady("productsandservices", function () { /* Instantiate a Menu: The first argument passed to the constructor is the id of the element in the page representing the Menu; the second is an object literal of configuration properties. */ var oMenu = new YAHOO.widget.Menu( "productsandservices", { position: "static", hidedelay: 750, lazyload: true, effect: { effect: YAHOO.widget.ContainerEffect.FADE, duration: 0.25 } } ); /* Call the "render" method with no arguments since the markup for this Menu instance is already exists in the page. */ oMenu.render(); });

This Menu instance makes use of several configuration properties. Setting the "autosubmenudisplay" configuration property to "true" modifies its default behavior so that mousing over any item in the Menu automatically triggers the display of its submenu. The "hidedelay" configuration property is set to "750" so each submenu automatically hides 750ms after the user's mouse has left the menu. The "lazyload" property is set to "true" to help speed up the initial load time of the Menu instance by deferring the initialization and rendering of each submenu until just before it is initially made visible. Lastly, the effect configuration property is set to use the pre-canned FADE ContainerEffect instance bundled with the Container Core package to animate each submenu's opacity as it is shown and hidden.

Finally, it is necessary to set the "position" CSS property of the root Menu instance's element (`<div id="#productsandservices">`) to "static" to match that of the "position" configuration property.

#productsandservices { position: static; }

## Configuration for This Example

You can load the necessary JavaScript and CSS for this example from Yahoo's servers. Click here to load the YUI Dependency Configurator with all of this example's dependencies preconfigured.

### Menu Family Examples:

- Basic Menu From Markup
- Basic Menu From JavaScript
- Grouped Menu Items Using Markup
- Grouped Menu Items Using JavaScript
- Grouped Menu Items With Titles From Markup
- Grouped Menu Items With Titles From JavaScript
- Multi-tiered Menu From Markup
- Multi-tiered Menu From JavaScript
- Handling Menu Click Events
- Listening For Menu Events
- MenuItem Configuration Properties
- Setting Menu Configuration Properties At Runtime
- Website Left Nav With Submenus Built From Markup
- Website Left Nav With Submenus From JavaScript
- Website Top Nav With Submenus Built From Markup
- Website Top Nav With Submenus From JavaScript
- Website Left Nav Using Animation With Submenus Built From Markup
- Website Left Nav Using Animation With Submenus From JavaScript
- Website Top Nav Using Animation With Submenus Built From Markup
- Website Top Nav Using Animation With Submenus From JavaScript
- Context Menu
- Adding A Context Menu To A Table
- Adding A Context Menu To A TreeView
- OS-Style Programs Menu
- Application Menubar
- Using the Menu ARIA Plugin
- Replacing the content of a Button's Menu (included with examples for Button Control)
- Using A Menu Button To Replace A <select> Element (included with examples for Button Control)
- Using the Button ARIA Plugin (included with examples for Button Control)
- Context Menu Integration (included with examples for DataTable Control)
- Menu Buttons (included with examples for Button Control)
- Split Buttons (included with examples for Button Control)
- Color Picker Button (included with examples for Button Control)
- Fixed Width Menu Button (included with examples for Button Control)
- Slider Button (included with examples for Button Control)
- Layout with Menu Controls (included with examples for Layout Manager)
- Using the ProfilerViewer API while Profiling the YUI Menu Control (included with examples for ProfilerViewer Control)

### More Menu Family Resources:

- User's Guide (external)
- API Documentation
- Cheat Sheet PDF (external)

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