DHTML Menu Builder 4.20.026

Here are some key features of "DHTML Menu Builder":

Font:
· Font type, size and style for both, the normal and mouse over states
· DHTML Menu Builder even supports font substitutions and embedded fonts

Text alignment:
· Left/Right/Center

Color settings:
· Text Color and background color for both, the normal and mouse over states

Image settings:
· Two images can be placed at both sides of its caption and one at the background. All images support rollover effects.
· The images at the sides can be resized.
· DHTML Menu Builder currently supports any type of image also supported by the browsers.
· Flash Movies are also supported!

Mouse pointer icon setting:
· Arrow (Default), Crosshair, Hand, Text (I-Beam) and Help
· Under Internet Explorer custom cursors are also supported

Border colors and thickness:
· Apply custom borders with raised, sunken, bevel effects to groups and commands.
· For groups you can also use your own images

Spacing settings:
· Easily control the contents margins and spacing between items

Unfolding effects a-la-Office style:
· Vertical, Horizontal, Bi-directional and Random
· Also supported Advanced Unfolding Effects for Internet Explorer

Cascading menus:
· Unlimited levels. Multiple alignment options are available to display the submenus in any way imaginable.

Live Preview:
· Watch style changes in real time! n/a

Special Effects:
· Add dropshadow, transparency and cool raised and sunken effects when the mouse passes over your items

Auto Size Features:
· Let DHTML Menu Builder calculate the best size for your menus based on their contents or manually adjust it to better fit your needs.
· Support for scrollable menus when the contents of the menus is too long.

Menus Alignment:
· Configure your menus to align to the hotspots in any way you want
· Actually you can choose from 12 different alignment settings or even use objects on your pages as positioning references.

Commands Layout:
· Display Commands aligned either vertically or horizontally
· Specialized support for HTML tags in the items' caption
· Make the caption of your items look they way you want by including HTML tags! Add bold words, multi line captions, etc...

Scrolling Menus:
· Let your menus follow the browsers' scrollbars

In-Menu Scrolling:
· With this special feature you can create very long menus and use the in-menu scrolling capability to scroll through all the menu options.
Important facts you should know about DHTML Menu Builder:
· The menus are rendered from an external JavaScript file. This offers the ability to the browsers to cache the file and provide faster downloads for your users.
· The code used to call the external JavaScript file can be automatically included by DHTML Menu Builder for you.
· DHTML Menu Builder stores the menus already rendered on the JavaScript file, so your users' machines are never used to render the menus.
· Large menus could freeze the client computer for up 30 seconds forcing your user into thinking his browser has crashed. This will never happen with DHTML Menu Builder... actually, the menus are available to the user even before the page has been completely rendered by the browser.
· DHTML Menu Builder's advanced rendering engine is capable of producing 100% accurate results regardless the browser used and the platform from where is being ran.
· The same rendering engine is capable of producing over 71,946 characters of compiled code in less than 7 seconds.
· As of January 13, 2001, DHTML Menu Builder is the only application capable of producing DHTML-based menus compatible with Netscape Navigator 6.
· As of May 4, 2001, DHTML Menu Builder is the only application capable of producing menus that work under Opera 5.
· As of March 17, 2003, DHTML Menu Builder is the only application of its kind offering preliminary support to KHTML-based browser such as Safari and Konqueror.