[sabret00the]

nah i never tried, which was very rude of me so i apologise i should've said that first, however upon reading it, it appeared to act more like the forumbits than the navbar.

anyway i got the left one working (displayoptions) however it's showing both dropdowns as one men

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-bottom-width:-1px">
	<tr>
		<td class="tcat" width="100%">Pieces In Category<span class="normal">: $cats[title]</span></td>
		<td id="displyoptions" class="vbmenu_control" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="#goto_displyoptions">Display Options</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("displyoptions"); </script></td>
		<if condition="$show['catsearch']">
			<td id="categorysearch" class="vbmenu_control" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="#goto_categorysearch">Search Category</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("categorysearch"); </script></td>
		</if>
	</tr>
</table>

<if condition="$show['popups']">
	<!-- popup menu contents -->

	<!-- display options -->
	<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="displyoptions_menu" style="display:none">
		<form action="browse.php" method="post">
			<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1">
				<tr>
					<td class="thead" colspan="2">
						Display Options
					</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td class="vbmenu_option">
						<span class="smallfont">
							From The:
						</span>
					</td>
					<td class="vbmenu_option">
						<span class="smallfont">
							<select name="daysprune">
								<option value="1" $daysprunesel[1]>$vbphrase[last_day]</option>
								<option value="2" $daysprunesel[2]>$vbphrase[last_2_days]</option>
								<option value="7" $daysprunesel[7]>$vbphrase[last_week]</option>
								<option value="10" $daysprunesel[10]>$vbphrase[last_10_days]</option>
								<option value="14" $daysprunesel[14]>$vbphrase[last_2_weeks]</option>
								<option value="30" $daysprunesel[30]>$vbphrase[last_month]</option>
								<option value="45" $daysprunesel[45]>$vbphrase[last_45_days]</option>
								<option value="60" $daysprunesel[60]>$vbphrase[last_2_months]</option>
								<option value="75" $daysprunesel[75]>$vbphrase[last_75_days]</option>
								<option value="100" $daysprunesel[100]>$vbphrase[last_100_days]</option>
								<option value="365" $daysprunesel[365]>$vbphrase[last_year]</option>
								<option value="-1" $daysprunesel[all]>$vbphrase[beginning]</option>
							</select>
						</span>
					</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td class="vbmenu_option">
						<span class="smallfont">
							Order By: 
						</span>
					</td>
					<td class="vbmenu_option">
						<span class="smallfont">
							<select name="sort">
								<option value="title" $sort[title]>Title</option>
								<option value="postdate" $sort[lastpost]>Date Posted</option>
								<option value="lastreview" $sort[lastpost]>Last Review Date</option>
								<option value="reviewcount" $sort[replycount]>Number Of Reviews</option>
								<option value="views" $sort[views]>Views</option>
								<option value="postusername" $sort[postusername]>Author</option>
								<option value="voteavg" $sort[voteavg]>Rating</option>
							</select>
						</span>
					</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td class="vbmenu_option">
						<span class="smallfont">
							Sort By: 
						</span>
					</td>
					<td class="vbmenu_option">
						<span class="smallfont">
							<select name="order">
								<option value="asc" $order[asc]>$vbphrase[ascending]</option>
								<option value="desc" $order[desc]>$vbphrase[descending]</option>
							</select>
						</span>
					</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td class="vbmenu_option" colspan="2" align="center">
						<span class="smallfont">
							<input type="submit" class="button" value="Show Pieces" />
						</span>
					</td>
				</tr>
			<table>
		</form>
	</div>
	<!-- / display options -->
</if>

<if condition="$show['popups'] AND $show['catsearch']">
	<!-- search this cat -->
	<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="categorysearch_menu" style="display:none">
		<form action="find.php" method="post">
			<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
				<tr>
					<td class="thead" colspan="2">Search Category</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td class="vbmenu_option" title="nohilite">
						Title:
					</td>
					<td>
						<input type="text" class="bginput" name="query" size="20" style="width:175px" />
					</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td class="vbmenu_option" title="nohilite">
						Author:
					</td>
					<td>
						<input type="text" class="bginput" name="query" size="20" style="width:175px" />
					</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td class="vbmenu_option" title="nohilite">
						Text:
					</td>
					<td>
						<input type="text" class="bginput" name="query" size="20" style="width:175px" />
					</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td class="vbmenu_option" title="nohilite" align="center" colspan="2">
						<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
						<input type="hidden" name="do" value="process" />
						<input type="hidden" name="catchoice" value="$cat[catid]" />
						<input type="hidden" name="formuserid" value="$bbuserinfo[userid]" />
						$gobutton
					</td>
				</tr>
			</table>
		</form>
	</div>
	<!-- / search this cat -->
	<!-- / popup menu contents -->
<else />
	<!-- controls for non-popup browsers -->

	<b>this ++++ aint working</b>

	<!-- / controls for non-popup browsers -->
</if>