Quick reminder
On page to jump from write a prompt: Insert → Form → jump menu;
Complete menu box with items, using + and browsing to appropriate pages.
Add go button if wanted.
Tick 'select first item after URL change'.
Put in links to return from the pages you jump to.
(See the Spry Widgets page for an example of what it might look like: A Menu Bar widget is like a jump menu although fancier and the method is different.)
Details
Jump menus (internal) give site viewers a list of items to choose from and then are links to other parts of the web site.
Jump menus can also be used to make links to an external web site, email links, etc., as any other link.
Before making the jump menu you have to have ready the places that the jumps (links) will go to.
For this exercise/explanation imagine (or make) four pages (separate files) called red, green and blue and yellow. You will make a jump menu on the yellow page to the other three pages.
Decide whether you want to have a written prompt outside the jump menu box to show that there is a list of choices
(eg 'Choose a colour')[1]
or whether you want to make the first item the prompt. [2]
See DW Help pages: About Jump Menus; Insert a Jump Menu; Edit a Jump Menu
To make a jump menu: [1]
On the page to jump from (eg yellow) write a prompt, put the cursor close to your prompt then from the top menu choose Insert → Form → jump menu.
Complete the menu box - change item 1 to your first choice (eg red); then browse to page to link to (eg red page);
Click on + sign at top to add next item (eg blue),
Browse to page (eg blue)
Complete list of items in the same way (+ to get next one)
Tick box if you want a ‘go’ button next to the choices,
Make any changes by using up and down arrows.
Tick 'select first item after URL change'.
Check that your links all work - Remember that the jumps will not work in DW – you need to Preview them in browser.
If your site visitor needs to return to yellow or go elsewhere from the red, blue or green pages put in links from them.
To make a jump menu: [2]
Here the prompt will be the first item on the jump menu but will not be linked to anywhere.
Put the cursor where you want the jump menu and Insert → Form → jump menu as before. Write in the prompt (eg 'Choose a colour') as the first item. Then choose + to add the first choice and proceed as before.
To change the items in the jump menu
Check that ‘behaviours’ is ticked - top menu: Window → behaviours
Select the jump menu you want to edit. Go to tag inspector (on right of screen, above file list, and below CSS panel) and click on icon to bring up the same menu box that you used to put in the items. You can change them here, use the + and - buttons to add or delete them.
You can also change them in the properties inspector – see below.
To edit the jump menu
Select the jump menu - its properties appear on the Properties Inspector Bar at the bottom of the screen.
Select menu or list - Menu shows one item at a time, List shows all items – you also need to change the number in the height box to the number of items you want to show in the list.
To delete an item: highlight it and click subtract (-)
To add an item: click +, a new box appears for you to type in the new item, tab to go across to the next column which contains the list of places to go to – here you do not have the opportunity to browse to it so you have to type it in.
To get rid of the rest of the Form across the page so that you can have something else on that line: Choose New CSS Rule and in Box section of menu choose float left or right.