making navbar buttons the right size?

[singe606 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

yeah, i also want to know if there is an easy way to do this that i'm overlooking... for example, if i have a rectangle behind my text, i want it to change width based on the length of the text. is this possible?

[goinon41]

Sorry, guys!
It's just not possible in FW. If you intend to use buttons of a uniform size, you will need to set the buttons to a size which will contain the longest text label you intend using in your navbar. For a more aesthetically pleasing appearance, you could try to avoid using abbreviations (e.g. use "Information", rather than "Info"). That may help to balance things up a bit.
John Mc

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[Joey Durham]

One way you could do it is to slice the graphic up and use a section of it
to tile in HTML and either using CSS or adding it to the background property
of a <td> tag. You just need to have your text added after you build the
button.

John MC posted this tutorial on a similar question. Think of this banner as
your button.
[url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/johnandmoira/Pyroteknix/tutorials/expbanner.htm[/url]

----Joey


"singe606" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> yeah, i also want to know if there is an easy way to do this that i'm

overlooking... for example, if i have a rectangle behind my text, i want it
to change width based on the length of the text. is this possible?

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