Contents / User Interface Reference / Menu item properties
This window allows you to modify properties of menu items:
- item text: this is the text of an item. If not using bitmap-based menus, you can enter HTML code here, e.g. <b>bold</b> text with image<img src=...>. If you wish to use special characters (e.g. from non-English alphabets), you should use character entities, e.g. ü instead of ü -- you will then need to set desired encoding declaration on the target webpage. Please note that by entering "-" in place of text, you will add a vertical white-space separator which can be useful to group items in a popup.
- destination URL (this can be a relative path such as ../index.htm, an absolute path such as http://www.yourdomain.com/index.htm or even a JavaScript command in form of javascript:command, e.g. javascript:alert('this menu items runs a JavaScript command') )
- target frame which is the name of the frame where the URL will be opened, blank if the URL is to be opened in the default frame or one of special window names (_blank, _parent or _top). E.g. entering "_blank" will open the URL in a new browser window
- font style: allows making an item bold or italic
- status text: sets desired text in browser's status bar when hovering over an item (please note that Firefox now by default disables scripts from modifying the status text)
- main (left) image: this is the image that will appear to the left of menu items. In options/graphical appearance/general/icon column width you should set the max. width of the icons used so that the texts are properly aligned. You can use predefined or custom images.
- additional image: additional image that appears to the right of item text. You can use predefined or custom images.
- text color: custom color of menu item
- background color: custom background color of menu item
- item contains a sub-menu is a check box which determines if a menu item contains a child pop-up menu. Selecting this option will add a sub menu to the selected menu item
- sub menu properties determine the properties of the child popup menu. You can specify a custom popup width or background color. These settings have no effect if selected item does not open a popup menu.