WD 6 / 'current page' NavBar buttons

**Yellosub** · 27 March 2010, 08:25 AM

has anybody found the 'Auto-highlighting of 'current page' NavBar buttons' option?

Thanks a lot Xara, for taking your software another large step towards THE perfect wysiwyg webdesign tool!

**covoxer** · 27 March 2010, 08:31 AM

Originally Posted by Yellosub

has anybody found the 'Auto-highlighting of 'current page' NavBar buttons' option?

There's no such option. All the rollover buttons (the objects that have a link and mouseover or mousedown state) have this auto highlighting applied automatically. This is a new feature in WD6.
However, you can disable this feature for the WD5/X5 compatibility. To do so, simply add the "NoAutoHighlight" name to any object in your design.

**ChrisBro** · 27 March 2010, 08:32 AM

Hi John

I just put this in another thread but here we go

I updated a wd5 site yesterday and wd6 just automatically added this new feature all on its own, and it works beautifully, the nav bar in question was from the original wd5 gallery though so dont know if that makes a difference but it all worked just fine

Chris

**covoxer** · 27 March 2010, 08:40 AM

Yes, it was intended to work this way. And we implemented it so that the 'selected' state is automatically added to any rollovers created in WD5/X5. It's simple and perfectly safe. If you have a mouseover state, it will be used for the current page link. This can't ruin the design as you vouldn't ever add something design ruining as the mouseover state right? Now, if you in addition has a mousedown layer, it will be used instead of the mouseover. These simple rules are good enough to have a slick transition for the old designs and good capabilities for the new ones.

**ChrisBro** · 27 March 2010, 08:45 AM

Its awesome John and really really intuitive now can you stop selling it? I am going to be out of a job otherwise

Chris

**Yellosub** · 27 March 2010, 09:48 AM

Brilliant, Xara continues to amaze me!

Great, thank you John.

**Spinny** · 27 March 2010, 11:26 AM

Something similar (and cool) related to this:

I usually place an "accessibility navbar" of text links along the footer of my designs. When you navigate to a given page, the footer text link for that particular page no longer shows up in "link mode," rather in normal text however you defined it before applying the link.

Nice touch.

**jimhanus** · 27 March 2010, 11:48 AM

covoxer,
I have a current nav bar made in XX5 which uses my own design for the current page button which is totally different than the mouse-over button. WD6 changed them to the mouse-over look. Is there a way to return it to the way I designed it? There's 15 pages in this navigation.

Jim

**covoxer** · 27 March 2010, 11:50 AM

One way is to globally disable this feature with the "NoAutoHighlight" name.
Another one is to simply remove the mouse over portions form the buttons that linking to the current page. Or remove the link from these buttons. If I correctly understand the problem.

**jimhanus** · 27 March 2010, 12:07 PM

covoxer,
There are 27 pages in the site with this nav bar on each page. The "current" page has it's own look to the "current" button, different than the mouse-over look. I'm assuming I'll have to go to each button and add the NoAutoHighlight to retain this look?

EDIT: It really wasn't as bad as I thought. I only had to go to each "current" button and add the NoAutoHighlight via the dropdown menu (which I hadn't noticed before). Thanks!

Jim