CSS Menus

Freeway 5 provides a new method for creating navigation menus. The new menus are CSS driven (making them fast) and they are built upon HTML lists, so they are accessible to people who are using assistive technologies such as screen readers (see Accessibility).

Previous versions of Freeway provided JavaScript menus, which are slower and less accessible. In addition, JavaScript menus do not work if JavaScript has been turned off.

To create a CSS menu

1. Create a list (in an HTML item) which contains the names of the pages in your site, and links to those pages (See Lists for information on lists in Freeway 5).
2. Open the Actions palette, by selecting it from the Window menu or from the toolbar.
3. Click on the plus button in the Actions palette and choose the CSS Menus Action from the list of Actions which Freeway displays.
4. Use the Actions palette to change the appearance and behavior of the menu.

Once you have published your site, Freeway will display a preview image of the menu. You can still edit the list from which the menu is generated by using Freeway’s normal text selection method (click twice on the item which contains the list).

Typically, you will want to create a navigation menu on a master page, so that it is displayed on all the pages which derive from this master.

NB - this page describes Freeway Pro functionality. Features shown may differ in Freeway Express.