Mouse over state for sub menu items? how to?

[KileyKiley]

If I have a navigation bar as such:
Sports
--Hockey
--Football
--Swimming
Pets
--Dogs
--Cats

How do I have Sports to show the mouse-over state always on when I am on the Hockey page? I'm massaging a template and the [Main] page seems to always be in the mouse-over state and I cannot see where/how to modify it.

Many thanks!

[Acorn]

K2, Xara's approach doesn't afford that luxury.
Without recoding or using CSS, it would be difficult to make this happen.

If your sub-menus are only only level down, you could make the collections of submenu items into other NavBars and add to to each page; that way, the mouseover state is visible for 'Fooball' but still not 'Sports'.
I find the Xara sub-menu approach limiting as it is hard to match font or style to the web page deisgn.

The only other Xara approach is to recreate the NavBar as a collection of buttons on Layers to achieve the effect you are after.

I use CSS for most of my NavBars and JS to create breadcrumbs.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

In the Nav Bar Menu click Pop-up Menu Style.

You can assign fonts, and colors for the fly-out/drop-down menus.

[Acorn]

In the Nav Bar Menu click Pop-up Menu Style.
You can assign fonts, and colors for the fly-out/drop-down menus.

Gary, the OP wants to have the Football page open and the NavBar show Sports as the active current main menu tab.
Xara's NavBars cannot handle this.

The cheat way is to place an identical MouseOver image of the button over the NavBar button.
You then need a click-behind piece of code to still access the NavBar. But that is way too complex.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

You can also just add an image to the MouseOver layer for that page. This is yet another feature that has been orphaned and not improved. I'll move this thread to Dear Xara.

[Acorn]

You can also just add an image to the MouseOver layer for that page. This is yet another feature that has been orphaned and not improved. I'll move this thread to Dear Xara.

Thanks Gary,
Acorn