Just closing the loop on this. Randal - I assume you didn't ever solve (or maybe you did solve it, but didn't share your solution).
On 6/16/06, Randal digitas@panix.com wrote:
I will look at Nice Menus to see how easily it can be hacked to do this. Obviously what I need is a CSS statement written to the page (not in javascript) that opens a specific menu section vertically when you are in the section that that menu item represents.
Anyway, I just noticed the activemenu module which is a part of the jstools module and activemenu does exactly what you want (I think).
"Activemenus makes the standard Drupal navigation menu expandable. Clickable, highlighted regions are added to the menu. When a collapsed menu item is expanded, the child menu items are loaded dynamically through AJAX."
The only problem I have with it is that it uses AJAX to pull down the expanded menu information. On a busy site that can result in a jagged movement and require the user to pause unnecessarily.
Anyway, in my quick tests it worked -- with and without javascript -- in IE6 and Firefox1.5.
Regards, Greg