Simple animated drop down menu using jquery

This tut will help you to have a simple animated drop down using jquery. Before using this please add the js file from jquery website. Refer the site http://jquery.com/ for more details. You can download the minified version or the developer version.

Once you download and include in the page then using the below steps.
HTML

<ul class="drospdown">
<li><a href="#">A Website #1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">A Website #2</a>
<ul>
             <li><a href="#">Indoor</a></li>
             <li><a href="#">Outdoor</a></li>
            </ul>

</li>
<li><a href="#">A Link #1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">A Link #2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">A Website #3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">A Website #4</a></li>

<li><a href="#">A Link #3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">A Link #4</a></li>
</ul>

Javascript

function mainmenu(){
$(" .drospdown ul ").css({display: "none"}); // Opera Fix
$(" .drospdown li").hover(function(){
$(this).find('ul:first').css({visibility: "visible",display: "none"}).slideDown(400);
},function(){
$(this).find('ul:first').slideUp(400);
});
}
$(document).ready(function(){
mainmenu();
});

this will give you an animated drop down menu...