Sometimes a JavaScript intended for one purpose can be modified slightly to allow it to be used for a completely different purpose. In this article I discuss how minor changes to my advanced tooltip script can allow it to be used as a pop up menu script.
Pop Up Menus

Now that the really old browsers that pre-date the standards have almost no one using them any more the scripts that we wrote a few years ago can be made a lot simpler. The references to document.all and document.layers (and useragent tests for Netscape 4 to get around the bug that stopped feature sensing for [...]

A tooltip is the yellow box that most browsers display text in when you hover over an element in the web page that has a title attribute. Not all browsers display the title attribute as a yellow box to contain the text, some display the text in the status bar instead. The other limitation is [...]