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Applying settings to popup layers
You can apply a transition to a popup layer to control how the layer appears, as well as choosing how
the popup layer closes.
1.
Click the layer in the Page & Layer Gallery and click the Properties button at the top of the
gallery.
2.
Click the Pop-up settings tab of the Layer properties dialog.
3.
Choose an effect from the Transition effect drop-down list and move the slider to set a speed
for the transition in seconds.
4.
Choose how you want the popup layer to close using the check box. Leave it unchecked if you
want the popup layer to stay open until you close it manually, or else check the box if you want it
to close automatically when you click on another part of the webpage.
5.
Click Apply.
Note:
The mouseover layer appears and disappears as you move the mouse pointer on and off the triggering
object. If you use a click method to display the layer (from the Link dialog), then the layer is revealed by
a click on the object, and is hidden when you click anywhere else on the page (or when you click on the
pop-up layer's close button if you have turned off the "Close pop-up automatically" option shown
above).
Pop-up Layers
A more powerful alternative allows you to display the contents of any layer as a result of mousing over,
or clicking, any object. This can be used for a range of different pop-up effects such as pop-up photos,
menus or detailed object descriptions.
To do this, place all the objects you want to pop-up on a new layer (in the Page & Layer Gallery
click New while you have a layer selected - don't use the MouseOver layer), then set the Mouseover
property (Mouse-over
tab of the Web Properties dialog) of the original object to trigger the display of this layer when you
mouseover any other object. For example you can make a pop-up, like this, appear as you mouse over
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