Chapter 7. Adding Interactive Behaviors

What You’ll Do

Insert Interactive Buttons

Work with Interactive Buttons

Add Behaviors to Elements

Modify Behaviors

Go to Another Web Page

Create a Jump Menu

Display Text Messages

Preload and Swap Images

Check for Browsers and Plug-ins

Change Element Properties

Open Another Browser Window

Execute a Script

Play a Sound

Play Multimedia

Introduction

Implementing the use of interactive buttons makes moving around a site an easy experience for a visitor. You can customize these buttons, and define hyperlinks for them. These animation effects are triggered by an event, such as clicking on a link.

Behaviors are timesavers because they give you sections of code for common tasks. In addition, behaviors are a great ...

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