# How To: Create a Drop Down Menu with XML Data for Menu Items

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-a-drop-down-menu-with-xml-data-for-menu-items/42583>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 10, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-a-drop-down-menu-with-xml-data-for-menu-items/42583 "2004-02-10T18:10:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![cyberv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@cyberv](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cyberv)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-a-drop-down-menu-with-xml-data-for-menu-items/42583/1 "2004-02-10T18:10:43Z")

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Can anyone help by showing me or pointing me in the right direction of how I’d go about creating a drop down menu and populating the menu items from an XML file?

I’m creating a tour sort of thing and I have it pulling in the slides of the tour from an XML file and all the next/prev buttons are working fine. I wanted to add a drop down menu from the top that has the menu items pulling in from elements from the XML file. Possible? Ideas?

Thx

:thumb:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-a-drop-down-menu-with-xml-data-for-menu-items/42583/2 "2004-02-10T18:15:14Z")

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you can help yourself by checking the tutorials before posting, so you don’t get answers such as this.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-a-drop-down-menu-with-xml-data-for-menu-items/42583/3 "2004-02-10T18:20:48Z")

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i.e. [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/xml\_dropdown\_menu.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/xml_dropdown_menu.htm)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-a-drop-down-menu-with-xml-data-for-menu-items/42583/4 "2004-02-10T18:22:33Z")

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My bad on that one. Should have checked here first.

This will work great.

Thx

:sen:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-a-drop-down-menu-with-xml-data-for-menu-items/42583/5 "2004-02-10T18:26:54Z")

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and welcome to the forums! :beam:

Do try your best to search first, though. 😉