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Button Bars (NavBars)
Most websites, and so most of the template designs we provide, have a row or column of buttons to
navigate around the website or to other places. This is called a Navigation Bar and Xara Web Designer 7
Premium includes special support for these bars. To edit a navbar, double click on it, or right-click and
choose Edit Navigation bar
from the context menu. The Navigation bar dialog opens. Here you can change the button labels, links
and tooltips, add and delete buttons, re-order and even add menus and sub-menus.
When you double-click on the URL field in the dialog, a Link dialog opens which is the same dialog used
to set links on normal objects, as described earlier in this chapter and in detail in the Web Properties
Dialog chapter. Because you can't apply a transition effect to a navigation bar link, the Link transition
controls are grayed out.
In the Navigation Bar Properties dialog you can also turn on the Site navigation bar
option. This makes your bar automatically appear on new pages you add to your site and buttons/links
are added to the bar automatically for each new page. However you can't edit your bar on canvas when
this option is turned on ? you can only edit it using this dialog.
To update a navigation bar across all pages, if it's not an automatic site navigation bar, just right click and
choose Repeat on all pages
. This will make the button bar a repeating object and copy it from the current page onto all other pages.
Read the Navigation Bars Chapter
for full details about Navigation Bars.
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