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Links using A Jump Menu

To navigate to new pages you can use both text-based and image-based links. To do this you add a hyperlink to either the text or image. With text, we can use either a table or Interactive Buttons. While these are the most common navigation techniques, they are not the only ones.

 

The Jump Menu and behaviors exist as methods to create a compact and centrally manageable navigation menu out of the Drop-Down Box control. While text-based and image-based navigation menus have the potential to take up precious real estate within the Web design, the Jump Menu compacts all of the navigation menu items into a single pick-list control where only one item appears initially. It isn’t until the user selects the menu that the rest of the navigation items become visible within the menu.

 

To create this type of menu, follow the steps listed  below.

 

With your cursor in the page, insert a new drop-down menu control by dragging out the Drop-Down Box control from the Toolbox Task Pane.

 

Choose the Jump Menu behavior from the Insert submenu in the behaviors Task Pane. The Jump Menu dialog box appears.

 

Click the Add button. The Add Choice dialog box appears. Enter a text-based choice within the text box . Now enter the URL to the site.

 

To include a title for the menu, add an appropriate name in the blank space at the top – CHOOSE ONE, for example. Then click move up one and it will appear on the front of the Menu.

 

You can highlight the Jump Menu, choose  Format ,Borders and Shading from the top, then select shading to provide foreground and background colors.

 

Click OK to close the Add Choice dialog box.