You can make a dropdown menu on your page without having
to know JavaScript.
Make buttons out of text or image objects.
Stack one on top of the other. The top button will
be always visible and will display the menu name. The buttons below it
will be the dropdown menu options.
Create a temporary group. This will be your first
group of buttons. (For more information, see Temporary
Groups.)
Copy and paste the group to create a second group
of buttons. (For more information, see Copy Object.)
Apply contrasting shading to the menu name button
on the first group of buttons.
Apply the same shading to the menu option buttons
on the second group of buttons.
Apply contrasting shading
to the two groups of buttons.
Set the Z-order (layer) of the second group of buttons
to be above the first group of buttons. (For more information, see Z-Order (Layers).)
Assign navigational hyperlinks to each of the second
group of buttons. (For more information, see Hyperlinking.)
In the Mouse Trigger
Effect dialog box, assign a mouse-over effect to the first menu
option button of the first group of buttons to show its counterpart in
the second group of buttons, but only if the first menu option button
is visible. (For more information, see “Mouse Trigger Effect Dialog Box.”)
Repeat step for
the remaining buttons in the first group of buttons.
Form a permanent group out of the first group of
buttons. (For more information, see Permanent
Groups.)
Make a note of the object name of the menu name button
in the first group of buttons. This will make it easier to set the next
mouse effect.
In the Mouse Trigger
Effect dialog box, assign a mouse-over effect to the menu name
button in the first group of buttons to show the permanent group you created
in step , and then make it disappear when the mouse is moved off by clicking
the One Time Action option box.
Instead of "mouse pointer is over", you could use
"mouse button is pressed on". This means that the menu drop-down
would be activated with a click instead of a mouse over.
Click and drag the second group of buttons, and position
it to be superimposed precisely on top of the first group of buttons.
(For more information, see Move Object .)
Click and drag to superimpose
the second group of buttons on top of the first group of buttons.
Preview the page and see that the menu name button
from the first group of buttons is all that is visible initially. (For
more information, see Preview Page.) Mouse
over the menu name button in the first group to show the menu name button
in the second group and the menu option buttons from the first group.
Mousing over the menu option buttons shows their counterparts in the second
group of buttons. Clicking a menu option button will open the page to
which you hyperlinked.
