Dreamweaver CS4 Resources

Apply the Show Pop‑Up Menu behavior

Note: This behavior is deprecated as of Dreamweaver 9 in favor of the Spry Menu Bar widget. To access the old Show Pop-Up Menu behavior, you must select the ~Deprecated menu item from the Add Behavior menu of the Behaviors panel. You cannot use the Show Pop-Up Menu behavior to create new pop-up menus; you can only use it to edit existing menus. If you have no existing pop-up menus (i.e., ones created with Dreamweaver 8 or earlier), the behavior will be grayed out. To insert horizontal or vertical pop-up menus in Dreamweaver CS3, select Insert > Spry > Spry Menu Bar or click the Spry Menu Bar icon on the Spry tab of the Insert panel. For more information, see Working with the Menu Bar widget.

You can use the Show Pop‑Up Menu behavior to edit a Dreamweaver pop‑up menu or to open and modify a Fireworks pop‑up menu you’ve inserted in a Dreamweaver document.

You set options in the Show Pop‑Up Menu dialog box to edit a horizontal or vertical pop‑up menu. You can use this dialog box to set or modify the color, text, and position of a pop‑up menu.

Note: You must use the Edit button in the Dreamweaver Property inspector to edit images in a Fireworks image-based pop‑up menu. You can, however, use the Show Pop‑Up Menu command to change the text in an image-based pop‑up menu.

Select an object and choose ~Deprecated > Show Pop‑Up Menu from the Add Behavior menu of the Behaviors panel.
Use the following tabs to set options for the pop‑up menu:
Contents

Set the name, structure, URL, and target of individual menu items.
Appearance

Set the appearance of the menu’s Up State and Over State and the font of menu items.
Advanced

Set the properties of the menu cells. For example, you can set cell width and height, cell color and border width, text indention, and the time elapsed between the moment the user moves the pointer over the trigger and the moment the menu appears.
Position

Position the menu relative to the triggering image or link.