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Advanced - Editing a Navbar button design
However your Navbar was created, you can modify the button design it uses. For a Navbar where all
buttons are the same design, the very first button in the bar is used as the master button from which all the
other buttons are copied. Therefore by modifying the first button design, you modify the design for the
whole bar.
Editing inside
For some bars you can do some editing of the button design directly on the first button, using select
inside. This allows you to select shapes inside the button group. See the information about the Selector
Tool
in the Object Handling chapter for details of select inside.
However you cannot do select inside editing, if either of the following options are turned on in the Navbar
dialog.

Site navigation bar

Adjust button widths to labels
If either of these options are turned on and you attempt a select inside, you'll be prompted and given the
option of opening the Navbar dialog so that you can turn off these options and then try again.
With the options off, you can use select inside and modify the shapes that make up your button using the
usual drawing tools.
IMPORTANT
: Remember that the first button in your bar is the master button for your bar (unless you have different
start and end buttons ? see below). So you must modify the first button. Then your changes to the first
button are immediately applied to the other buttons in your bar. If you modify a button other than the
master, the changes will not be applied and will be lost as soon as you modify your bar.
Ungrouping, editing and regrouping
If you want to do any significant editing of a button design, it's best to ungroup the components that
make up the Navbar and then regroup them again afterwards.
To ungroup your bar, select the Navbar by clicking on it on the canvas and then do a normal ungroup
operation ("Arrange" > "Ungroup" or "Ctrl + U"). Or click the Ungroup to edit graphics
button at the bottom of the Navbar dialog.
Note
: If your Navbar had the "Site navigation bar" option turned on, you'll need to turn that option back on
again if required, after regrouping your modified bar.
Once your bar is ungrouped, it is no longer a navigation bar. You are left with a separate button group
for each button state. Also, if the "All buttons the same width
" option was turned on, ungrouping might change the button widths because this option is only effective
while the buttons are part of a Navbar. Although you should only make the design changes to the master
button(s), you'll normally want to leave all the other buttons on the page. They are used when you
regroup your Navbar, to recover all your button labels, links, etc., so that you don't have to re-enter
them again.
If you have a mouseover state, the 2 groups that make up the master button will be „soft grouped" so that
they stay together when you drag them around the page. Separate them using "Arrange" > "Remove
soft group" ("Ctrl + Alt + U"). You can then further ungroup each button state on the MouseOff and
MouseOver layers ("Ctrl + U"), in order to work on their respective designs. See the "Creating your own
Mouseover Buttons" section of the Getting Started chapter
for information on how to make buttons.
Remember to regroup each of the button states and then put the soft group back to keep the two button
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