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CHAPTER 12
Creating Buttons and Pop-up
Menus
In Macromedia Fireworks 8 you can create a variety of JavaScript buttons and CSS or
JavaScript pop-up menus, even if you know nothing about JavaScript and CSS code.
The Fireworks Button Editor leads you through the button-creation process, automating
many button-making tasks. The result is a convenient button symbol. After you’ve created a
button symbol, you can easily create instances of the symbol to make a navigation bar, or nav
bar.
Fireworks also has a Pop-up Menu Editor, which allows you to quickly and easily create
vertical or horizontal pop-up menus. The Advanced tab of the Pop-up Menu Editor gives you
creative control over cell spacing and padding, text indention, cell borders, and other
properties.
When you export a button or pop-up menu, Fireworks automatically generates the CSS code
or JavaScript necessary to display it in a web browser. In Macromedia Dreamweaver, you can
easily insert CSS code, JavaScript, and HTML code from Fireworks into your web pages, or
you can cut and paste the code into any HTML or CSS file.
This chapter contains the following topics:
Creating button symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .282
Creating navigation bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293
Creating pop-up menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293