Martha's COIN 74 Week 7

Martha's COIN 74 Week 7 Exercises

Day Two - Forms: Jump Menus

SOURCE: Robert D. Cormia's online text
my comments in blue

A Jump Menu is a form element which displays as a dropdown menu of linked URLs used for navigation. Since it is a form element, jump menus must be contained within the form beginning and ending tags. Dreamweaver's Insert Jump Menu feature adds JavaScript behaviors to the form menu element. Although the jump menu is a form element, all the processing is done on the client side through JavaScript and the jump menu does not require a form handler or a submit button. Please create a new form in which to contain your jump menu rather than grouping it with another form that requires a handler or cgi script on the server side.

Create a basic jump menu. Do not include a jump menu within any other form tag. It should always be in it's own separate form. GET THIS RIGHT PLEASE. You won't believe how many students put their jump menu within their form homework. Create a jump menu on a separate html page than your submissible form.

To make the first item of your jump list instructions, set the Go to URL to the null ( javascript:;) symbol and add your instructional text in the appropriate Text: field of the Insert Jump Menu window.

You can link your jump menu selections to any external absolute URL or any relative files in your site, including graphic and .pdf files. You can use behaviors to replace the standard Go button with an image when you learn more advanced features of DW.

To get your jump menu to open each URL in a new window (which is a requirement for the final project), see these Macromedia Tech Notes and Tutorials:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/interactivity/behavior/behavior05.html

http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/ts/documents/listmenu_url.htm

OK - here goes: Martha's First JUMP MENU
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