What is the difference between Interactive Buttons and Hover Buttons?

How do I make a multiple choice of links pop-up when a user mouses over an
Interactive/Hover button? For example, when the user mouses over a button
that says "Offices Worldwide" a menu pops up that shows links to "North
America", "Europe", "Asia", etc. which then takes the user to a web page in
my web site that is, for example, the page for our "Asia" office. Thanks in
advance.

Thanks,
CanuckUser

Hover buttons are Java Applets that will not display on most PCs in use
today, since the Windows default is to not install a Java Virtual
Machine.

Interactive Buttons are JavaScript rollover buttons, which will function
in most PCs, whether JavaScript is running or not.

To produce a dropdown/flyout menu, look at

JavaScript/Behaviours (for FrontPage 2003)
http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tip...ow.aspx?tip=28
and
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/jonspivey/menus/index.html

(mainly) CSS (all versions of FrontPage):
http://www.seoconsultants.com/css/menus/tutorial/
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"CanuckSurfer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> What is the difference between Interactive Buttons and Hover Buttons?
>
> How do I make a multiple choice of links pop-up when a user mouses over an
> Interactive/Hover button? For example, when the user mouses over a button
> that says "Offices Worldwide" a menu pops up that shows links to "North
> America", "Europe", "Asia", etc. which then takes the user to a web page in
> my web site that is, for example, the page for our "Asia" office. Thanks in
> advance.
>
> Thanks,
> CanuckUser

Interactive buttons are image buttons which use DHTML.
Hover buttons are java applets which that require Java Virtual Machine is installed on the computer.
JVM is no longer automatically installed with the operating system so therefore most people have stopped using them.

The type of menu you describe is a jump menu. Google for "jump menu"


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"CanuckSurfer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> What is the difference between Interactive Buttons and Hover Buttons?
>
> How do I make a multiple choice of links pop-up when a user mouses over an
> Interactive/Hover button? For example, when the user mouses over a button
> that says "Offices Worldwide" a menu pops up that shows links to "North
> America", "Europe", "Asia", etc. which then takes the user to a web page in
> my web site that is, for example, the page for our "Asia" office. Thanks in
> advance.
>
> Thanks,
> CanuckUser

That's more of a javascript creation. I've tried looking into that myself,
and FP doesn't really have that feature. Even if you combined the dropdown
menu with a rollover, it wouldn't work.

Barring that, I'd recommend you use a rollover combined with a
toggleVisible() command. It will then show the links when you rollover it,
but it will also extend the page's length temporarily, which I'm not sure
you'd want or not.

I unfortunately don't have a link to the javascript hover/interactive
buttons javascript on me at the moment. But some of the others do. I'd
recommend to wait until one of them takes a gander at this thread.

"CanuckSurfer" wrote:

> What is the difference between Interactive Buttons and Hover Buttons?
>
> How do I make a multiple choice of links pop-up when a user mouses over an
> Interactive/Hover button? For example, when the user mouses over a button
> that says "Offices Worldwide" a menu pops up that shows links to "North
> America", "Europe", "Asia", etc. which then takes the user to a web page in
> my web site that is, for example, the page for our "Asia" office. Thanks in
> advance.
>
> Thanks,
> CanuckUser

Hover buttons are "Not" JavaScript.
They are Java, as in Sun Microsystems: Java Virtual Machine and they are Java Applets.

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"redemption2" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> That's more of a javascript creation. I've tried looking into that myself,
> and FP doesn't really have that feature. Even if you combined the dropdown
> menu with a rollover, it wouldn't work.
>
> Barring that, I'd recommend you use a rollover combined with a
> toggleVisible() command. It will then show the links when you rollover it,
> but it will also extend the page's length temporarily, which I'm not sure
> you'd want or not.
>
> I unfortunately don't have a link to the javascript hover/interactive
> buttons javascript on me at the moment. But some of the others do. I'd
> recommend to wait until one of them takes a gander at this thread.
>
> "CanuckSurfer" wrote:
>
>> What is the difference between Interactive Buttons and Hover Buttons?
>>
>> How do I make a multiple choice of links pop-up when a user mouses over an
>> Interactive/Hover button? For example, when the user mouses over a button
>> that says "Offices Worldwide" a menu pops up that shows links to "North
>> America", "Europe", "Asia", etc. which then takes the user to a web page in
>> my web site that is, for example, the page for our "Asia" office. Thanks in
>> advance.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> CanuckUser