13. Place your cursor next to the I need: label and, from the Property inspector??™s Vert list, choose Top.
14. In the second-to-last row, first cell, enter the label My special needs are:.
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Navigating with a Jump Menu
It??™s not always practical to use a series of buttons as the primary navigation tool on a Web site. For sites that
want to offer access to a great number of pages, a jump menu can be a better way to go. A jump menu uses
the menu form element to list the various options; when one of the options is chosen, the browser loads??”
or jumps to??”a new page. In addition to providing a single mechanism for navigation, a jump menu is easy
to update because it doesn??™t require laying out the page again. Because they are JavaScript-driven, jump
menus can even be updated dynamically.
Dreamweaver includes a Jump Menu object that handles all the JavaScript coding for you??”all you have to
provide is a list of item names and associated URLs. Dreamweaver even drops in a Go button for you, if you
choose. The Jump Menu object is easily used in a frame-based layout for targeting specific frames. After the
object is inserted, you can modify the Jump Menu object like any other list object, through the List/Menu
Property inspector. To insert a jump menu, follow these steps:
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