Using Swap Image with a Select List/Menu - Part 1
By: Danilo Celic on Wednesday, March 2, 2005
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Dreamweaver is good at what it does, very good in fact, but good can only take you so far. Go beyond what it is built for and you will have to start digging into the code and get your hands a little dirty. Swapping images based upon user interaction — such as mouseing over images or links, or clicking buttons — can be implemented with point-and-click ease using Dreamweaver's Swap Image behavior. The Swap Image behavior is one example of where you need to get into the code is if you want to go beyond the built in functionality. If you wanted to use the Swap Image behavior with a list and allow your visitors to change an image that is shown based upon the option chosen in a list, you couldn't readily do it with the way that the Swap Image behavior is set up to work. You can, however, with a carefully created list, and a quick modification in the code, turn the code used by the Swap Image behavior into something that will work well for you when applied to a list menu.
In Part 1 of this article, we'll take a look at working with static pages, that is, pages where you do not need any database interaction. Part 2 will take into consideration the needs of dynamic pages to allow swapping of images from a data driven list menu.
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