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USING DREAMWEAVER
Linking and navigation
Last updated 3/28/2012
Attaching JavaScript behaviors to links
You can attach a behavior to any link in a document. Consider using the following behaviors when you insert linked
elements into documents:
Set Text Of Status Bar Determines the text of a message and displays it in the status bar at the lower left of the browser
window. For example, you can use this behavior to describe the destination of a link in the status bar instead of showing
the URL associated with it.
Open Browser Window Opens a URL in a new window. You can specify the properties of the new window, including
its name, size, and attributes (whether it is resizable, has a menu bar, and so on).
Jump Menu Edits a jump menu. You can change the menu list, specify a different linked file, or change the browser
location in which the linked document opens.
More Help topics
“Applying built-in JavaScript behaviors” on page 331
Link to documents using the Property inspector
You can use the Property inspector’s folder icon or Link box to create links from an image, an object, or text to another
document or file.
1 Select text or an image in the Document window’s Design view.
2 Open the Property inspector (Window > Properties) and do one of the following:
• Click the folder icon to the right of the Link box to browse to and select a file.
The path to the linked document appears in the URL box. Use the Relative To pop-up menu in the Select HTML File
dialog box to make the path document-relative or root-relative, and then click Select. The type of path you select
applies only to the current link. (You can change the default setting of the Relative To box for the site.)
• Type the path and filename of the document in the Link box.
To link to a document in your site, enter a document-relative or site root–relative path. To link to a document outside
your site, enter an absolute path including the protocol (such as http://). You can use this approach to enter a link for
a file that hasn’t been created yet.
3 From the Target pop-up menu, select a location in which to open the document:
• _blank loads the linked document in a new, unnamed browser window.
• _parent loads the linked document in the parent frame or parent window of the frame that contains the link. If
the frame containing the link is not nested, then the linked document loads in the full browser window.
• _self loads the linked document in the same frame or window as the link. This target is the default, so you usually
don’t have to specify it.
• _top loads the linked document in the full browser window, thereby removing all frames.
If all the links on your page will be set to the same target, you can specify this target once by selecting Insert > HTML >
Head Tags > Base and selecting the target information. For information about targeting frames, see “Control frame
content with links” on page 193.
More Help topics
“Absolute, document-relative, and site root-relative paths” on page 257