Creating menus > Container Options

 
 


CONTAINER OPTIONS

The containers are groups of the items on a menu. As a group, containers are responsible for specifying attributes such as background color, border width and color, content style, etc.

Below are all the possible attributes supported by a container:

Submenu Type [1]
With this parameter you can control the way the items inside a container are aligned:

Vertical (default): Items will be placed one below the other creating a standard dropdown menu.
Horizontal: Items will be placed one besides the other creating a thin and wide menu. These kind of menus are ideal when there's not enough vertical space to display a menu.

Title Font [2]
This parameter controls the font type, size and style used to display the title text.

Title Background Color [3]
You can assign a background color of the container's title text.

Menu Background Color [4]
You can assign a background color of the container. You can also change the background color of a container by accessing the Background Image dialog. With the image dialog you will assign an image to container's background to customize the look of your container.

Title Image [5]
This is the image used in the title of the container.

Background Image [6]
This is the image used in the background of the container.
When using images in the background of the containers, the items will not display the normal background color, otherwise this color would cover the image producing an undesirable effect.

Content Style [7]
The parameters under this section manage the style of the container's content.

Distance Between Items [8]
With this attribute you can control the distance between items in the container contents.

   
 

The containers are groups of the items on a menu. As a group, containers are responsible for specifying attributes such as background color, border width and color, content style, etc.

 
 


Containers are like frames and as such you can customize the border of these frames.

Border Style [1]
Outset, Inset, Solid or None

Border Width [2]
The border width attribute will let you set, in pixels, the width of this frame

Border Left & Top Color [3]
Border Left & Top Color properties let you customize the color of left and top borders.

Border Right & Bottom Color [4]
Border Right & Botom Color properties let you customize the color of right and bottom borders.

Effects [5]
This property set controls the transparency and glow of the container contents.
Increasing the transparency value will make your container transparent, this means that the contents of whatever is underneath it will be revealed.

   
 

Manage the style of the container's content.