User Guide

Creating pop-up menus 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:
1 Open the Content tab of the Pop-up Menu Editor and create menu items. Create the menu
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 “Creating a basic pop-up menu”
on page 202.
2 Click to highlight a pop-up menu item that you wish to make a submenu item.
3 Click the Indent Menu button to designate the item as a submenu item under the item directly
above it on the menu item list.
4 To add the next item to the submenu, highlight it and click Indent Menu.
All items that are contiguously indented at the same level constitute a single pop-up submenu.
5 Optionally, highlight a menu or submenu item and click Add Menu to insert a new item just
below the highlighted item.
6 Do one of the following:
■ 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:
1 Highlight a submenu item in the Content tab of the Pop-up Menu Editor. For more
information, see the previous procedure.
2 Click the Indent Menu button to indent it again, so that it is indented from the submenu item
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:
1 Highlight the menu item in the Content tab of the Pop-up Menu Editor.
2 Click the Outdent Menu button.
For more information about positioning submenus, see “Positioning pop-up menus and
submenus” on page 208.
3 Do one of the following to complete the pop-up menu or continue building it:
■ 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.