MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS MX 2004-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual page 203

Creating submenus within a pop-up menu
Using the Indent Menu and Outdent Menu buttons on the Content tab of the Pop-up Menu
Editor, you can create submenus—pop-up menus that appear when the user moves the pointer
over or clicks another pop-up menu item. You can create as many levels of submenus as you want.
To create a pop-up submenu:
Open the Content tab of the Pop-up Menu Editor and create menu items. Create the menu
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items that you wish to use for the submenu as well, placing them directly under the menu item
for which they will be a submenu. For more information, see
on page 202.
Click to highlight a pop-up menu item that you wish to make a submenu item.
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Click the Indent Menu button to designate the item as a submenu item under the item directly
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above it on the menu item list.
To add the next item to the submenu, highlight it and click Indent Menu.
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All items that are contiguously indented at the same level constitute a single pop-up submenu.
Optionally, highlight a menu or submenu item and click Add Menu to insert a new item just
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below the highlighted item.
Do one of the following:
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Click Next to move to the next tab or choose another tab to continue building the
pop-up menu.
Click Done to close the Pop-up Menu Editor.
To create a pop-up submenu within a pop-up submenu:
Highlight a submenu item in the Content tab of the Pop-up Menu Editor. For more
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information, see the previous procedure.
Click the Indent Menu button to indent it again, so that it is indented from the submenu item
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directly above it.
You can continue indenting to create as many levels of nested submenus as you want.
To move a menu item into a higher-ranking submenu or into the main pop-up menu:
Highlight the menu item in the Content tab of the Pop-up Menu Editor.
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Click the Outdent Menu button.
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For more information about positioning submenus, see
submenus" on page
Do one of the following to complete the pop-up menu or continue building it:
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Click Next to move to the Appearance tab or choose another tab to continue building the
pop-up menu.
Click Done to close the Pop-up Menu Editor.
In the workspace, the hotspot or slice on which you built the pop-up menu displays a blue
behavior line attached to an outline of the top level of the pop-up menu.
Note: To view a pop-up menu, press F12 to preview it in a browser. The previews in the Fireworks
workspace do not display pop-up menus.
208.
"Creating a basic pop-up menu"
"Positioning pop-up menus and
Creating pop-up menus 203