Hey,
I was wondering how would I go about creating a button within a button, for example on a web application you have a button called "OPTIONS" and that once clicked it would open up a small window, and within that window you would have buttons such as "SAVE", "PRINT", "EMAIL", I've seen it somewhere but can't remember where so if anyone can please help me or give me some sample code would be appreciated.

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So this was a sort of popup menu, localized to the vicinity of the options button?

What kind of app are we talking about? (Windows app? Web app? ...?)

Its a web application, using vb.net as the code behind

So this was a sort of popup menu, localized to the vicinity of the options button?

Yes that would be true

As far as I know, the most common way to do this is to define a <div> with the secondary buttons/controls on/in it. (Divs can be positioned, layered, made visible or invisible, etc., yet they are an element of the form in which they are defined, unlike popup windows, alert dialogs and confirm dialogs.)

When the primary button is clicked, show the div, allowing the controls it has to be clicked/selected. Once that happens, hide the div again. (An element that is not visible is not submitted with the form; you will need to keep track of what was done within the div somewhere else, before you re-hide it.)

If you show this div as the result of merely rolling over the primary button, you have the rudiments of how HTML menus are done (items I'm sure you've seen while making your way about the wwweb).

Thanks Brian that was very helpful

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One clarification regarding the distinction between HTML visibility and control visibility in .NET:

In HTML you can set the DHTML visibility property of a control to "hidden". This only means it's not visible in the browser canvas. However, controls inside a hidden HTML element are still on the page and will therefore post values.

This is in contrast to setting a control's Visible server property to "false". This causes the control not to render at all and therefore not post values. If the control is rendered to the page it will post values regardless of their DHTML visibility.

-Peter