Using frames/iframes to display a navigation bar

Sorry about the title - bit long - but it does explain it a bit

I've got a page that I want to display a navigation bar in. Its a DHTML/javascript bar that can be displayed at the top of a document.

I've been including this bar in every file I create, but I'd like to change that to a single frame page that displays the nav and a content frame.

However, when the bar is placed in a separate frame, the drop down menus get hidden by the bottom frame. If I make the frame bigger then I can't get enough info in the content frame.

So I suppose I'm asking if anyone knows a way of hovering the drop down menus over the page such that they hover over a different frame.

I've included a screenshot so that you can see what I mean - its not quite right but I wanted to make it obvious what I was talking about.

Thanks

HD

If the menu is written to the document using JavaScript (i.e. document.write) then can't you just add a <script src="menu.js"> type thing where you need it to appear in each page, and get rid of the frames? Other than that the only thing I can think of is to write the menus to the lower frame, and have the script show/hide them in the other frame, but that will probably mess up your whole script.

The problem I have is that I want the menu to be permanently displayed. You can make the menu static - but it looks *****. Therefore the menu can be scrolled off the display.

Oh well, no problem - cheers.

HD