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Part III
Adding Advanced Design Features
activating a jump selection, you need to remove an attached behavior. Select the jump menu item,
open the Behaviors panel, and delete the Jump Menu event.
Some Web designers prefer to use a non-URL option for the first item, such as Please
Select A Department. When entering such a non-URL option, set the Go To URL (or the
value in the List Value Properties) to javascript:; to create a null link.
The generic Go button is a nice convenience, but it’s a little, well, generic. To switch from a standard
Go button to a graphical Go button of your choosing, follow these steps:
1. Insert the image that you want to use as your new Go button next to the jump menu.
2. With the new graphic selected, open the Behaviors panel.
3. Select Jump Menu Go from the Add Event drop-down list. Dreamweaver displays a dialog
box showing all available jump menus.
4. Choose the name of the current jump menu from the Jump Menu Go dialog box list and
click OK when you’re finished.
5. If necessary, delete the Dreamweaver-inserted Go button.
Activating Your Form with Buttons
Buttons are essential to HTML forms. You can place all the form objects you want on a page, but
until your user clicks that Submit button, there’s no interaction between the client and the server.
HTML provides three basic types of buttons: Submit, Reset, and Command.
Submit, Reset, and Command ...