Css Collapsible Drop Down Menus

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Adjust appearance of the menu.

Define the menu's orientation and menu type.

Select vista button by clicking it and change button appearance for normal and mouse over states and set buttons link properties and link target attributes on the "Buttons" tab.

Select submenu's item by clicking it and change submenu's appearance for normal and mouse over states and set submenu's item link properties and link target attributes on the "Submenus" tab.

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Let's assign text to the web menu buttons. Select first web button by clicking it and then enter text in the "Text" field on the Properties toolbox. You will see that, as you enter the text, the selected button's text will change too.

Then select next web button with click. Enter its text and so on. After finishing, the menu will look like this:

Now let's add some icons. Select button and then click the "Open icon" button on the "Normal state" tab of the Properties toolbox.

"Open" dialog will appear, where you can choose an icon. Other way to assign an icon is to type its full path and name in the "Icon" field ("c:\myicons\stylish_3\pretty.ico", for example). Repeat this for each menu button. You should get something like this in result:

Let's change icons' position inside the buttons. To do it you should select all buttons by clicking on the first button, then pressing the Shift key, and then clicking the last web button while still holding the Shift key. You can also press "Ctrl + A" to select all buttons. Then click one of the "Icon Align" buttons on the "Normal State" tab on the Properties toolbox.

You will see that icons are aligned in the selected way now. In this example we choose Top icon align.

Now let's add text shadow to buttons when button in hot state. Select all buttons as described in the previous step and then set the "Shadow" checkbox on the "Hot state" tab of the Properties toolbox.

Now, when you point mouse at the menu button, shadow will appear under the button text like in the "Products" button of the following example:

Let's change the menu theme. To do it just select theme you like in the themes list on the buttons editor toolbox. Then you can browse this theme's button backgrounds. Note, that button backgrounds are previewable. You can look at their behavior while choosing. Just point mouse at it, click it to know how web button will react.

When you find a button background you like, double-click it to apply. For example, after choosing one of the "01 Vista Buttons" theme's backgrounds, we'll get following results:

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Apply any font of any color, size and font decoration you need. Use any available type, color and thickness of a menu's frame. Choose any color for submenus and items backgrounds.

Specify various values for spacing and padding for the whole menu and for each separate submenu.

Create separators using your own pictures, size and alignment.

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Vista-style menus

Web menus, which are created by DHTML Dropdown Menu, exactly correspond with Windows Vista graphic interface components. That is why the visitors of your site will not have to spend their time in order to familiarize with the unusually-looking navigation. Nevertheless, you are not limited by the standard Windows themes, and you will be able to create your own original buttons.

Instant preview

Each change of button-menu appearance is instantly displayed in the Preview Window.
At the same time, you will be able to test how the buttons would respond to the mouse events.

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3-state rollover buttons

Dropdown DHTML Menu automatically generates images of buttons for normal, mouseover, and click states.
There is also a feature of creation either static or 2-state buttons.

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