New user.  First post. Much JavaScript experience, and considerable back-end programming experience, but new to jQuery, and wondering if it will do what I want to do instead of a custom back-end/ JavaScript solution.e

In a nutshell, I need to make your basic horizontal navigation bar with two levels of drop downs - I know jQuery will do that handily.  But then I need the drop down menu for whatever section of the website we're currently one to be displayed as a left-hand vertical menu, with the drop-down items for that section expanded and displayEd statically.

In other words - if my main nav bar has buttons Section 1, Section 2, and Section 3

And Section 2 has drop down items SubSection 1.1, SubSection 1.2, and SubSection 1.3,

Then when the user clicks on the Section 1 button and goes to the main page for that section, over in a left hand div appears a vertical nav bar that contains the Section 1 button, highlighted to indicate that's where we are, and the SubSection 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 links as bullets beneath that, visible.

I'm hoping I can just make my links list as ul's once, then in the left hand div pass jQuery a variable to tell it to render only the links for this section, and as a static, visible, list.

Is this do-able?

Thanks.