Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

^#80 Creating a Spry Menu Bar

Menu bars, which display submenus when they are hovered over, are a very useful and appealing page element. Menu bars allow several menu options to be accessed from a clean, uncluttered main menu. The interactivity they provide when a visitor hovers over a menu option adds energy and dynamism to your page.

Remember: Save Before You Spry

Before you create any Spry widgets, make sure you save the Web page you are working on. To insert tabbed panels, place your cursor where the tabbed panels will appear (usually at the top of a page) and choose Insert > Spry > Spry Tabbed Panels. By default, a two-tab tabbed panel appears.

The Spry widget for inserting Menu Bar widgets allows you to generate menu bars with two levels ...