heres the code:
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<a href="#"onMouseOver="showMenu('NorthLayer')>
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function showMenu(menuName)

if(ns)
{

eval("document" + layerRef + "['" + menuName + "']" + styleRef + ".visibility = '" + showRef + "'");

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this is where the layerRef,styleRef,showRef come from

if (ns){ // for netscape
layerRef = ".getElementById";
styleRef = ".style";
showRef = "visible";
hideRef = "hidden";
}

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in IE this(the ie version,very simmalar to this) I get dynamic dropdown menus

in Netscape I get nothing. this is Netscape 6 I am trying to get this to work in.

I can get an alert to show up from the showMenu function so I know I am reaching it, but my layer just won't show up..

any suggestions?

thanks