Adding Pull-Down Menus

You may have looked at the sliding menus in the previous task and said to yourself, that’s nice, but what I really want are those pull-down menus that make Web pages look like applications. Here’s the secret: there’s not a lot of difference between the previous task and this one. In fact, the HTML is identical (just refer back to Script 15.1); the CSS is in Script 15.4, and the JavaScript is in Script 15.5.

Script 15.4. A little more CSS and a little more JavaScript give your menus a more traditional look.
body { background-color: white; color: black; } div { margin-bottom: 10px; width: 20em; background-color: #9CF; } ul.menu { display: none; list-style-type: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; } ul.menu li { font: 1em arial, ...

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