Vertical Expanding Menu Tutorial

QUICK HELP

Click "Add button" and "Add submenu's item's buttons to create your menu.

Create your own buttons or use ready to use Templates.

Select vista button or submenu by clicking it and change button appearance for normal and mouse over states and set buttons/submenus link properties and link target attributes.

Save your menu as project file, as HTML page or insert your menu into the existing HTML page

VERTICAL EXPANDING MENU TUTORIAL

Let's assign text to the web menu buttons. Select first web button by clicking it and then enter text in the "Text" field on the Properties toolbox. You will see that, as you enter the text, the selected button's text will change too.

Then select next web button with click. Enter its text and so on. After finishing, the menu will look like this:

Now let's add some icons. Select button and then click the "Open icon" button on the "Normal state" tab of the Properties toolbox.

"Open" dialog will appear, where you can choose an icon. Other way to assign an icon is to type its full path and name in the "Icon" field ("c:\myicons\stylish_3\pretty.ico", for example). Repeat this for each menu button. You should get something like this in result:

Let's change icons' position inside the buttons. To do it you should select all buttons by clicking on the first button, then pressing the Shift key, and then clicking the last web button while still holding the Shift key. You can also press "Ctrl + A" to select all buttons. Then click one of the "Icon Align" buttons on the "Normal State" tab on the Properties toolbox.

You will see that icons are aligned in the selected way now. In this example we choose Top icon align.

Now let's add text shadow to buttons when button in hot state. Select all buttons as described in the previous step and then set the "Shadow" checkbox on the "Hot state" tab of the Properties toolbox.

Now, when you point mouse at the menu button, shadow will appear under the button text like in the "Products" button of the following example:

Let's change the menu theme. To do it just select theme you like in the themes list on the buttons editor toolbox. Then you can browse this theme's button backgrounds. Note, that button backgrounds are previewable. You can look at their behavior while choosing. Just point mouse at it, click it to know how web button will react.

When you find a button background you like, double-click it to apply. For example, after choosing one of the "01 Vista Buttons" theme's backgrounds, we'll get following results:

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Not just buttons

Drop Down HTML Menu is able to create not just separate images of buttons, but also complete web menus. These menus can be either horizontal or vertical, they support �rollover� and �click� effects with full set of javascript and html code.

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