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Formatting Pop-up Menu Colors, Widths, and Time Delays

To edit the background color of your pop-up menu:

  1. Open pop-up_menu.js file. Dreamweaver is recommended but any suitable text editor can be used (Windows: Notepad or Wordpad, Macintosh: SimpleText).
  2. Near the top of the page's code, scroll to the line that reads: //START OF CUSTOMIZED INFORMATION:
  3. The following should be seen:
  4.   // START OF CUSTOMIZED INFORMATION
    //Miscellaneous variables for defining the pop-up boxes
    var boxDelay="2"; // Delay time (in seconds) to keep the box displayed, default is "1.5" if not greater than "0".
    var borderColor=""; // color of the border (IE only)
    var borderLight=""; // color of the light shaded part of the border (IE only)
    var borderDark="#ffffcc"; // color of the dark shaded part of the border (IE only)
    var backGround="#FFE7D7"; // color of the background of the pop-ups (All Browsers)
    var boxFontSize=13; //size of font (in px) for the style class boxes needs to be equal in order to work properly
    var maximumMenuSize=220; //max size the menu widths can be, if no max size desired set equal to null
    var pixelImage = "images/pixel.gif"; //type in the location of this image
    var hoverImage = "images/hover.gif"; //type in the location of this image
  5. The bolded text above is the customizable information.
    • Some of the customizable information is left blank, such as borderColor. This is done if the attribute is not desired or default values wish to be used.
    • The variable pixelImage and hoverImage should not be touched unless these images are moved from there current location in the images folder.
      • The images should always be referenced as if the page is in the first level of the site (the main directory).
  6. Save and close the file.

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