How to Make a Drop Down Navigation in Dreamweaver CS5
Adding a drop-down navigation menu to a Web page makes it easier for visitors to get around your website. This type of menu design also allows you to include many items in a menu without taking up a large amount of space on the Web page. Use a Jump Menu form in Adobe's Dreamweaver Web development software to quickly create a drop-down navigation menu and insert it into a document.
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Instructions
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Launch Dreamweaver and open the document to which you want to add the drop-down navigation menu. Click inside the document at the point at which you want to insert the menu.
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Open the "Insert" menu. Hover the mouse over "Form" and click "Jump Menu." Dreamweaver opens the Insert Jump Dialog box, which contains one menu item by default.
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Click the "+" button to add a second item to the drop-down navigation menu. Add as many items to the menu as desired.
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Click "item1" in the Menu Items section. Type the name of the menu item into the Text box, replacing the "item1" text. Click inside the "When selected, go to URL" field and enter the website or Web page to which you want the menu item to navigate. Click "item2" and enter its information, then repeat the process for the rest of the menu items.
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Type a name for the menu as a whole into the "Menu ID" text box. Click "OK" to insert the drop-down navigation menu into the Web page.
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