Home Button Construction

[gwpriester]

Well if you're good with the jumping button then your method is the way to go.

What is your reason for wanting editable text on the button? It's a button.

If you soft group the text and rectangle, then you have to change your text color and turn off underscore, and you lose the ability to have highlighted text.

Plus, when you group text with a shape, such as a button, the text appears in the HTML document as an Alt tag.

[Acorn]

Well if you're good with the jumping button then your method is the way to go.

What is your reason for wanting editable text on the button? It's a button.

If you soft group the text and rectangle, then you have to change your text color and turn off underscore, and you lose the ability to have highlighted text.

Plus, when you group text with a shape, such as a button, the text appears in the HTML document as an Alt tag.

If I create an underlying graphic for the button base, I can Name it "fred" and clone it as often as I want. i would do the same for a graphic on the MouseOver layer.
So placing the text as text does not change the grpahic and therefore the presentation is quicker, the download equally so. Finally, I can give the text a style that maps to a H1, H2 or H3 tag so it integrates better into the needs for improving search engine discovery.

I actually wanted to use rollover effects as well but have not got that far.

My current compromise is not to have a MouseOver part.
I have the base graphic soft-grouped with the text.
My text has Website link colours set as White under Yellow and no underlining.

I therefore get a white to yellow text colour change on mouse over of the text alone; the graphic expresses the link but does not change the text colour.

This last part is easy to do using CSS but Xara should make it work with its graphical MouseOver approach, not have jumping text.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

This last part is easy to do using CSS but Xara should make it work with its graphical MouseOver approach, not have jumping text.

The example I posted had two buttons, one with text grouped to the button and one soft grouped. Both have mouse over states and both work without jumping. I think that is an aberration of some kind.

[Acorn]

The example I posted had two buttons, one with text grouped to the button and one soft grouped. Both have mouse over states and both work without jumping. I think that is an aberration of some kind.

Thank you Gary. Neither have text rendered - it is part of the image so does not help my case.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

I see what you mean.

[gwpriester]

Would this work? It's about the only way I can see to do what you are asking. And maybe this is the same solution you have reached.

[gwpriester]

Layers using Web Animation are an option, almost.