Adding a pop-up menu or scrolling list

Pop-up menus and scrolling lists allow your audience to choose from a list of items. A pop-up menu shows only one item in the list until someone clicks on it. A scrolling list shows more than one item, and your audience can scroll to see the remaining items in the list.

You can specify whether viewers can choose one item at a time or select multiple items in the list.

To add a pop-up menu or scrolling list to the form area:

  1. Place the insertion point inside the red border of the form area.
  2. Choose Forms from the Insert menu and then choose Pop-up Menu from the submenu.

    Claris Home Page inserts a pop-up menu form element and opens the Pop-up Object Editor.

  3. In the Pop-up Object Editor, type a descriptive name for the pop-up menu in the Name text box.
  4. In the Items Visible text box, type the number of items you want to appear on the page before your audience interacts with it.

    Type 1 if you want the element to be a pop-up menu. Type a number greater than one (2-100) if you want the element to be a scrolling list.
  5. Select the Allow Multiple Selections check box if you want your audience to select more than one item in the list.

    If you leave this check box unselected, your audience can select only one item in the list at a time.
  6. Click Edit Items to create the list of items and specify their values.

    The Define Pop-up List dialog box appears.

  7. In the Define Pop-up List dialog box, click Add to add each new list item to the list.
  8. In the Title column, type the names of the items as you want them to appear in the pop-up menu or scrolling list.
  9. Click in the Check column next to the items that you want to appear as selected by default in the form.

    A checkmarkappears in the Item List scrolling area next to each item you specify as a default choice. If the list item appears in a pop- up menu, a checkmark indicates that it is selected by default. If the list item appears in a scrolling list, it's highlighted to indicate that it's selected.
  10. In the Value column, type a description of the list item.

    This value can be the same as the item's title and must be different than the other items in the list. You can type letters, numbers or a combination of both.
  11. Click Remove if you want to delete an item from the list and click OK when you're done.
  12. Close the Pop-up Object Editor to apply your settings and save your page.

You can test the functionality of the pop-up menu or scrolling list by clicking on the list items in Preview Page mode.

To test the pop-up menu or scrolling list:

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