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Help! Pop-Up Menu in DW MX 2004
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Posted By:
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Maverick
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11/20/2004 4:38:21 AM
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Hi to all,
I need quick help:
I'm creating a site in DW MX 2004 with templates and now want to insert a pop-up menu in my left navigation bar.
So I select one of the images there, go to behaviors, but when I click on the + button, "Show Pop-Up Menu" is there, BUT NOT CLICKABLE. What am I doing wrong??
I'd be so glad about a quick answer,
Maverick
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Reply By:
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Imar
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Reply Date:
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11/20/2004 4:50:37 AM
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Hi there,
Check out this thread: http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5650
Basically, this seems to be a limitation of Dreamweaver. The best way to overcome this is to create a menu in a normal page, and then reuse it in the template.
Be sure to use root relative URLs as DW is probably not able to adjust the paths in the menu when you have template-based pages in different folder levels.
Cheers,
Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.
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Reply By:
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Maverick
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11/20/2004 5:21:29 AM
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Hi,
thanx for the very quick answer.
Just to get it: I created the wanted menu in a normal .html page and saved the page. But how do I apply exactly the created menu to a .gif in my template? I don't know, if it's important, but I already have a pop-up menu in my template, so this would be the 2nd one.
Sadly I'm not a pro-user, so could you please explain it so easy, that a fool like me understands it as well .
Thanx,
Maverick
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Reply By:
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Imar
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Reply Date:
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11/20/2004 5:35:45 AM
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Like you discovered, you cannot create a pop-up menu in a template directly. So to add one anyway, follow these steps:
1. Create a new, basic HTML page
2. Add the image you want to use for the popup
3. Select the image, and add the popup menu from the Behaviors panel
4. Customize the menu the way you want. Create sub menus, add menu items etc. Link your pages to /MyPage.html instead of MyPage.html
5 When you're done, copy the required code (e.g. the image with extra attributes and the code DW inserted for the menu) and paste it into your template page.
Does this help??
Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.
While typing this post, I was listening to: Paper Cup Exit by Sonic Youth (Track 8 from the album: Sonic Nurse) What's This?
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Reply By:
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Maverick
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11/20/2004 7:56:48 AM
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Hi,
I looked at the code of the template and asked myself where to put the code of the 2nd menu, but there is already a pop-up menu code from the other menu I'm using.
How do I separate them?
How do I make sure that the image knows which menu code to use?
Where exactly do I have to paste the code for the menu?
I already tried simply copying the image from the html into the template in the design mode, but didn't work.
Sorry if I bother you with my stupid questions, but I'm trying to learn.
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Reply By:
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Maverick
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Reply Date:
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11/20/2004 11:08:09 AM
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Hi
thanx for your patience, now I got it! I just created in my html a second menu to see how to fit it in the code. I did so in the template and ... it works!!
Thank you
Maverick
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