this is an example of a default popup menu that is built in DW. this is found by selecting the image, "contact us" and adding a behavior. click the plus sign icon in the bahaviors panel and select the show popup menu. this will allow you to set the number menu item, their typeface and wording and the style of the menu elements.

This appears to be the only truly successfull way to create a rollover menu in DW

The button at left here is a rollover image. I attempted to add a set of Image maps to this. But a rollover has a link attached to the single image. Adding image maps to allow for multiple links is not possible as the rollver uses the link in the rollover tag. :--a href="#" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image10','','contmenu.gif',1)"><img src="contm.gif" name="Image10" width="112" height="78" border="0" usemap="#Image10Map">:--a--:

The button left is NOT a rollover. It has a "Behavior" script attached to it. This script tells the layer that is in the cell to the right to become visible when you put you mouse over the image.

The layer has its property of "Vis" - visibility set to "hidden."

The button behavior tell the layer to "show" when the mouse goes into the button.

The layer has an Image with the mene item in it.

This layer could contain text or other images. the image could be rollovers as well.

To hide the layer, the menu image here has a "Behavior" to tell layer the to hide when the mouse exits the layer.

There appears to be issues with actually getting this to work as a MENU. my experimentation with this is not proving to be successful! if you add an image and a image map for a link, the browser appears to accept only the map link area as the onMouseOut command. this causes the layer to hide after you roll out of the first imag map area. For a menu to work there has to be more than one live area.

The button in left cell uses text links in layer.
There appears to be issues with actually getting this to work as a MENU. my experimentation with this is not proving to be successful! Adding mulitple links necessary to create a menu apperas to cause the Browser to hide the layer after roll out of first links you go into.

I have no solution for this without going to code in Cold Fusion or Flash!

In the image for the pop menu that appears in the left cell uses an "Image Map" for the link. on the word "menu" i drew a rectangular area using the map feature. this allow you to add a html link in the middle of an image. you can add mulitple html links to an image.

I added an "Image Map" link to three areas in the image - over the word, menu, the word trips and the word, music. Each of these links to another page within this site!

On left is a screen grab of the image maps and the properties panel where you creat the map.


I suspect the problem in the useof these may be due to the Microsoft eliminating the Java Support in EI. The layer commands use JavaScript. Microsoft and Sun have been fighting with ech other over the implementation of Java in Microsoft products for years. The end result of th lawsiuts is that Microsoft eliminated the support of Java in IE. Now we have to download java from Sun and install separately. This may not be the cause. The browser may just not be able to handle the code to do a complex multi-media element such as a layer with a series of links inside.