Text Menu Applet

Hi everyone. You are looking at the most VERSATILE menu applet, and the best thing is that you can can create quickly and easily url menus, either Horizontal or Vertical, WITHOUT creating images. The combinations as you will see in these examples are countless. When the mouse is over text then it can change it's font color, font size, font style and background color.

Vertical Examples: (For horizontal examples click here)

Example 1

When the mouse is over text, it's fontsize, font color, font style and background color change

Copy the following code and put it in an html file:

<APPLET CODE=TextMenu.class WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=70>
<param name="TextToDisplay" value="Java Boutique;Java News;Java FAQs;Java Sun">
<param name="URLtoDisplay" value="http://javaboutique.internet.com;http://javaboutique.internet.com/jbnews.html;http://javaboutique.internet.com/javafaqs.html;http://java.sun.com>
<param name="Target" value="_blank;_blank;_blank">
<param name="Position" value="Vertical">
<param name="FontSize" value="16">
<param name="FontSize2" value="20">
<param name="bgCOLOR1" value="240,240,200">
<param name="bgCOLOR2" value="0,0,255">
<param name="textCOLOR1" value="0,0,0">
<param name="textCOLOR2" value="0,0,0">
<param name="FontStyle" value="BOLD">
<param name="FontStyle2" value="BOLDandITALIC">
<param name="FontName" value="TimesRoman">
<param name="Author" value="George Eleftheriou">
<param name="Email" value="gele@egnatia.ee.auth.gr">
Your browser doesn't support java or java is not enabled!
</APPLET>

Example 2

When the mouse is over text, it's fontsize and font color change

Copy the following code and put it in an html file:

<APPLET CODE=TextMenu.class WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=70>
<param name="TextToDisplay" value="Java Boutique;Java News;Java FAQs">
<param name="URLtoDisplay" value="http://javaboutique.internet.com;http://javaboutique.internet.com/jbnews.html;http://javaboutique.internet.com/javafaqs.html>
<param name="Target" value="_blank;_blank;_blank">
<param name="Position" value="Vertical">
<param name="FontSize" value="16">
<param name="FontSize2" value="20">
<param name="bgCOLOR1" value="240,240,200">
<param name="bgCOLOR2" value="240,240,200">
<param name="textCOLOR1" value="0,0,0">
<param name="textCOLOR2" value="0,0,255">
<param name="FontStyle" value="BOLD">
<param name="FontStyle2" value="BOLD">
<param name="FontName" value="TimesRoman">
<param name="Author" value="George Eleftheriou">
<param name="Email" value="gele@egnatia.ee.auth.gr">
Your browser doesn't support java or java is not enabled!
</APPLET>

Example 3

When the mouse is over text, font color changes

Copy the following code and put it in an html file:

<APPLET CODE=TextMenu.class WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=70>
<param name="TextToDisplay" value="Java Boutique;Java News;Java FAQs">
<param name="URLtoDisplay" value="http://javaboutique.internet.com;http://javaboutique.internet.com/jbnews.html;http://javaboutique.internet.com/javafaqs.html>
<param name="Target" value="_blank;_blank;_blank">
<param name="Position" value="Vertical">
<param name="FontSize" value="20">
<param name="FontSize2" value="20">
<param name="FontStyle" value="BOLD">
<param name="FontStyle2" value="BOLD">
<param name="bgCOLOR1" value="240,240,200">
<param name="bgCOLOR2" value="240,240,200">
<param name="textCOLOR1" value="0,0,0">
<param name="textCOLOR2" value="0,0,255">
<param name="FontName" value="TimesRoman">
<param name="Author" value="George Eleftheriou">
<param name="Email" value="gele@egnatia.ee.auth.gr">
Your browser doesn't support java or java is not enabled!
</APPLET>

Example 4

When the mouse is over text, background color changes

Copy the following code and put it in an html file:

<APPLET CODE=TextMenu.class WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=70>
<param name="TextToDisplay" value="Java Boutique;Java News;Java FAQs">
<param name="URLtoDisplay" value="http://javaboutique.internet.com;http://javaboutique.internet.com/jbnews.html;http://javaboutique.internet.com/javafaqs.html>
<param name="Target" value="_blank;_blank;_blank">
<param name="Position" value="Vertical">
<param name="FontSize" value="20">
<param name="FontSize2" value="20">
<param name="bgCOLOR1" value="0,0,255">
<param name="bgCOLOR2" value="240,240,200">
<param name="textCOLOR1" value="0,0,0">
<param name="textCOLOR2" value="0,0,0">
<param name="FontStyle" value="BOLD">
<param name="FontStyle2" value="BOLD">
<param name="FontName" value="TimesRoman">
<param name="Author" value="George Eleftheriou">
<param name="Email" value="gele@egnatia.ee.auth.gr">
Your browser doesn't support java or java is not enabled!
</APPLET>

Parameters:

TextToDisplay: the text displayed Must be separated with semicolon ";"
Position Either "Horizontal" or "Vertical". Default is Vertical.
URLtoDisplay: the links corresponding to text.Must be separated with semicolon ";"
Target can have any of the values "_self", "_parent", "_top", "_blank" or the name of the frame you want the URL to appear. Each URL can have one target and targets must be separated with semicolon ";". Default is "_blank"
bgCOLOR1: the background color. All colors are defined as triples of R,G,B values where 0<R,G,B<255. All values zero indicate black, all values 255 indicate white.
bgCOLOR2: the background color when the mouse is over text
textCOLOR1: the color of the text.
textCOLOR2: the color of the text when the mouse is over it.
FontSize: the size of the font.
FontSize2: the size of the font when the mouse is over it.
FontStyle: the style can be "PLAIN" or "BOLD" or "ITALIC" or "BOLDandITALIC". Default is "BOLD". This means that if you don't specify this parameter, or if you specify it wrong, fontstyle will be "BOLD"
FontStyle2: the style when the mouse is over the text. Default is "BOLD"
FontName: is the name of the font. If you don't know what fonts your java support, you 'd better leave it as it is.
Author and Email do not affect your applet in any way as long as they stay as they are and should not be changed because the applet won't work then
You must also change width and height of the applet accordingly when you create your own menus

For horizontal examples click here

Note: If texts don't appear centered, please reload/refresh page.I have noticed this, only on Internet Explorer, and only some times.. Netscape Communicator presents no problem.

Questions should be directed to the author

Download the TextMenu and a classes and put them in the same Directory

Created 1998 by George Eleftheriou