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Section and Category Pull-down Menus

Creating a pull-down menu (also known as a “jump” or “select” or popup menu) of articles is very simple. What follows uses JavaScript to power it, but can be changed to use another programming language if desired.

In “jump-menu”, an article form:
<option value="<txp:permlink />"><txp:title /></option>

Page examples (for any version)

Examples to use within a “page”.

Replace

  • section-name with the name of your section
  • category-name with the name of your category
    1. with how many options to generate (to get 5 options, enter 5). If you do not specify a limit, the default number, 10, will be used.

Drop-down by section <form action=""> <select onchange="document.location=options[selectedIndex].value;"> <option value="" selected="selected">Articles In section-name</option> <txp:article_custom section="section-name" form="jump-menu" limit="#"" /> </select> </form>

Drop-down by category <form action=""> <select onchange="document.location=options[selectedIndex].value;"> <option value="" selected="selected">Articles in category-name</option> <txp:article_custom category="category-name" form="jump-menu" limit="#" /> </select> </form>

Pull-down for Section and Category

You can also mix section and category, which would return articles from section-name that also are in category-name.

<form action=""> <select onchange="document.location=options[selectedIndex].value;"> <option value="" selected="selected">Articles in section-name and category-name</option> <txp:article_custom section="section-name" category="category-name" form="jump-menu" limit="#" /> </select> </form>

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