error: 'menuItem8' is undefined

[john_dough]

Hello,

I am trying to use the website template which comes with Dreamweaver and I am
having a little trouble customizing the menu.

It is giving me the error message error: 'menuItem8' is undefined

The template came with 7 menu items and I want to add more, so I thought I
could just add to the numofitems variable. This casues the error though and I
dont seem to be able to figure out what I am missing.

I am attaching the javascript in a text file hoping someone might have some
ideas what I am missing.

I tried changing;

numofitems=7 to numofitems=8 as well as this.numberofmenuitems = 7; to 8...
but not working. Does it have some other dependency I cant see?

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var time = 3000;
var numofitems = 7;

//menu constructor
function menu(allitems,thisitem,startstate){
callname= "gl"+thisitem;
divname="subglobal"+thisitem;
this.numberofmenuitems = 7;
this.caller = document.getElementById(callname);
this.thediv = document.getElementById(divname);
this.thediv.style.visibility = startstate;
}

//menu methods
function ehandler(event,theobj){
for (var i=1; i<= theobj.numberofmenuitems; i++){
var shutdiv =eval( "menuitem"+i+".thediv");
shutdiv.style.visibility="hidden";
}
theobj.thediv.style.visibility="visible";
}

function closesubnav(event){
if ((event.clientY <48)||(event.clientY > 107)){
for (var i=1; i<= numofitems; i++){
var shutdiv =eval('menuitem'+i+'.thediv');
shutdiv.style.visibility='hidden';
}
}
}
// -->
</script>

[Murray *TMM*]

Most likely, yes. But I REALLY encourage you to evaluate your own abilities
with HTML, CSS, and javascript before using this layout. If you are not
quite comfortable in those at the code level, then please don't use this.

Anyhow, you can read more about this (albeit broken!) menu method here -

[url]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/dreamweaver/articles/dissecting_halo.html[/url]


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"john_dough" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I am trying to use the website template which comes with Dreamweaver and I
> am
> having a little trouble customizing the menu.
>
> It is giving me the error message error: 'menuItem8' is undefined
>
> The template came with 7 menu items and I want to add more, so I thought I
> could just add to the numofitems variable. This casues the error though
> and I
> dont seem to be able to figure out what I am missing.
>
> I am attaching the javascript in a text file hoping someone might have
> some
> ideas what I am missing.
>
> I tried changing;
>
> numofitems=7 to numofitems=8 as well as this.numberofmenuitems = 7; to
> 8...
> but not working. Does it have some other dependency I cant see?
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> <!--
> var time = 3000;
> var numofitems = 7;
>
> //menu constructor
> function menu(allitems,thisitem,startstate){
> callname= "gl"+thisitem;
> divname="subglobal"+thisitem;
> this.numberofmenuitems = 7;
> this.caller = document.getElementById(callname);
> this.thediv = document.getElementById(divname);
> this.thediv.style.visibility = startstate;
> }
>
> //menu methods
> function ehandler(event,theobj){
> for (var i=1; i<= theobj.numberofmenuitems; i++){
> var shutdiv =eval( "menuitem"+i+".thediv");
> shutdiv.style.visibility="hidden";
> }
> theobj.thediv.style.visibility="visible";
> }
>
> function closesubnav(event){
> if ((event.clientY <48)||(event.clientY > 107)){
> for (var i=1; i<= numofitems; i++){
> var shutdiv =eval('menuitem'+i+'.thediv');
> shutdiv.style.visibility='hidden';
> }
> }
> }
> // -->
> </script>
>