tear down list

kelly1976 · **Joined:** Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:29 pm **Posts:** 1

Hi I have used a simple navigation menu just using text boxes and hyperlinks to link my pages up. On one of the pages I want to add a tear down list/sub headings.Is there html code that could be cut and pasted in for this purpose rather than creating Css navigation bars?

Many thanks Kelly

iWebFAQ · **Posted:** Wed Mar 17, 2010 7:04 pm

Only way:
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Tear_down.html

Cédric

hozey · **Joined:** Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 57

This is my first attempt at iWeb, so bear with the newbie please. The site has a vertical navigation bar. I'd like to have a tear or drop down menu for one item in the navigation bar. All the code I've found requires you to already have your site address, as in this line:

<option value="http://yoururl.com*_top">name of the page</option>

The site isn't set up yet and I don't want to set it up until everything is working. I've tried using the path from my iWeb folder on the desktop, but that doesn't work. Is there anyway I can setup a tear or drop down menu without having a URL?

Thanks,
Hozey

iWebFAQ · **Posted:** Sat Nov 26, 2011 5:23 pm

Hi Hozey,

the URL of an iWeb website always looks like
http://yourdomain.com/sitename/pagename.html
so even if you didn't publish it yet you can "guess" the URL it will have for it to work once published.

If you don't want to have it working without it being published to the web you can use relative or absolute paths instead of the full URL. So instead of typing the entire URL you would just type
/sitename/pagename.html

Have a look at the Absolute paths and relative paths (or links) chapter of the free sample of my E-Book
http://ebookstoretoday.com/samples/iWeb ... Sample.zip
on page 20, especially the part you find surrounded by an orange rectangle to understand how it works.

Regards,
Cédric

hozey · **Joined:** Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 57

Thanks, Cedric. Can't believe I've been looking for this for 2 days. I'll be ordering your book before the day's out. I'm guessing there's something in it about changing the color and size.

George

hozey · **Joined:** Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 57

Cedric,

I'm still not getting this for some reason. Here is what I'm using:

http://garlandcountydems.org/GCDCC_Website_Test/Elected Officials.html

garlandcountydems.org doesn't exist yet. GCDCC_Websit_Test is the folder that appeared on my User Desktop when I first published Entire Site. Elected Officials is the page I'm trying to put the tear down/drop down menu on. When following your guide I get the menu, but when the HTML Snippet is made active and I try to use it, I get the box for entering HTML Code. Any help you can give as to where I'm going wrong will be deeply appreciated. Your suggestion to not use HTML Snippets makes a lot of sense, but I don't have time, prior to getting this to a committee for approval, to learn MassReplaceIt.

Thanks is advance for your help,
Hozey

iWebFAQ · **Posted:** Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:41 pm

Selecting an HTML Snippet to interact with it is not always as easy as it should, I often get the code box too. You better publish the site in local (on your computer) and open it from there in Safari.

Have a nice evening,
Cédric

hozey · **Joined:** Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 57

Hi Cedric,

I got the drop down menu leading to external sites to work just fine. But, I'm having trouble getting one that moves between pages of my site. It's all in the path, I think. Since I don't yet have a URL of the WWW, how to I write the snippet to move the user from page c to page g with a drop down menu?

Thanks again for all your help. I'm totally enjoying your eBook.

Hozey

iWebFAQ · **Posted:** Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:35 pm

Hi Hozey,

as described in the relative/absolute path chapter of the book (orange rectangle) you would publish you site from iWeb to Macintosh HD so in the Macintosh HD you will end up having
- index.html
- sitename (folder named after your site)

In the tear down you then just use

/sitename/pagename.html

So if you site is named hozey and you would have a page named About_me.html in the tear down menu you would use

Code:

This will only work once published to Macintosh HD. It doesn't work to change pages in iWeb itself within the application.

Hope it helps,
Cédric

hozey · **Joined:** Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 57

Dear Cedric,

For some reason, senility probably, this old man just isn't getting it. The folder on my HD is named GCDCC_Website_Test. The normal About Me page is re-named Home. There are 4 pages I'm trying to get into the Drop Down which will work off of the Home page. Here is the code I've tried to use, which isn't working for me.

<option value=" ">Elected Officials</option>
<option value="/GCDCC_Website_Test/U_S_Elected.html*_top">U S Elected</option>
<option value="/GCDCC_Website_Test/State_Elected.html*_top">State Elected</option>
<option value="/GCDCC_Website_Testl/County_Elected.html*_top">County Elected</option>
<option value="/GCDCC_Website_Testl/City_Elected.html*_top">City Elected</option>
</select>
</form>

I'll be more than happy to make a nice donation if you will sort this out for me.

Thank you very much,
Hozey