Accordion Tree Menu — Overview

The Accordion Tree Menu is a Flash menu component that represents a tree menu structure in an accordion fashion. It allows you to implement a hierarchical menu into your website navigation system.

The component provides with great usability supporting most complete feature set:

• multilevel structure (up to 3 levels) and unlimited menu items;
• menu data is loaded using XML;
• component can be completely configured through the XML file;
• separate style declaration for each of three levels of menu structure;
• alpha transparency support for all backgrounds;
• adding URLs or custom Flash functions to any menu click event (through the XML file);
• adding sounds to click or rollover event (through the XML file or authoring parameters in the Component inspector).

The structure of Accordion Tree Menu includes three possible levels:

1. Top level — consists of items expanding and folding in accordion fashion. Move your mouse over a top level item, and nested second level sub-menu (if one exists) drops down. Only one top level item can be open at a time.
2. Second level (optional) — consists of items expanding and folding in tree fashion. Click on tree icon, and nested third level sub-menu moves up or down. Multiple second level items can stay open at the same time.
3. Third level (optional) — the deepest level of Accordion Tree Menu hierarchy.