Changing Menus And Menu Items - MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004-EXTENDING DREAMWEAVER Manual

• A unique identifier for a shortcut.
id
• A name for the command executed by the keyboard shortcut, in the style of a menu
name
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Changing menus and menu items

By editing the menus.xml file, you can move menu items within a menu or from one menu to
another, add separators to or remove them from menus, and move menus within a menu bar or
even from one menu bar to another.
You can move items into or out of context menus using the same procedure as for other menus.
For information, see
To move a menu item:
Quit Dreamweaver.
1
Make a backup copy of the menus.xml file.
2
Open menus.xml in a text editor such as BBEdit, HomeSite, or Wordpad. (Don't open it
3
in Dreamweaver.)
Cut an entire
4
Place the insertion point at the new location for the menu item. (Make sure it's between a
5
tag and the corresponding
menu
Paste the menu item into its new location.
6
To create a submenu while moving a menu item:
Place the insertion point inside a menu (somewhere between a
1
corresponding
Insert a new
2
Add new menu items to the new submenu.
3
To insert a separator between two menu items:
• Place a
separator/
To remove an existing separator:
Delete the corresponding
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"About the menus.xml file" on page
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Changing menus and menu items
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