Creating Buttons and Pop-up Menus
In Adobe FireWorks 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 Adobe 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.
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