I wish I could be more helpful – but we’re using two different versions of Freeway and I can’t recall how v3 even worked (I must be repressing painful memories
But I did take a minute or two to work out how it might be done in v4, with tables (bleech!)
http://www.thebigerns.com/freeway/workbench/hugh-tableimage/
note: this example was done completely within Freeway 4 Pro. No extra programs or work outside of Fwy4 was used in the making of this page.
I didn’t have any problems at first – placing the arrow image before the text in each cell was easy and the results were instantly better than Hugh’s Fwy3 attempts. Still, I felt it needed some adjustment so I used CSS to adjust the image upward by 2 pixels… merely minor cosmetic surgery.
Not that I have any disdain for javascript, but I decided to apply the link styles using tried and true CSS methods instead. In doing so, I discovered that Freeway 4 was doing something with the code that made no sense to me at all.
When I created the first link, I placed my cursor at the beginning of the line (before the arrow image) and highlighted to the end of the line. Cmnd-K and link applied. When I did this, I assumed that Freeway would begin the link tag before the image and end it after the last word of text. Not so.
For some strange reason Freeway 4 wraps the anchor tags (link tags) around the image and the text separately, even though both are encased in the same paragraph tag. Huh? So my first thought was “hey dummy, you’re rusty and must be doing something wrong” so I tried it again. Then I tried it a different way. Then I tried some other different ways. I even tried inserting the image as a Markup Item, but Freeway treats that the same way. Eventually I hand coded the entire line in a markup item and applied the link to that. Ta Da!
Although as I write this, I wonder if I had inserted the markup of the image into the line after applying the link. Aw nuts, I’m not going back there again!
Good luck Hugh. I hope somebody finds this helpful
PS. Here’s a link to an old article where I place an icon next to a link as a background to the link: enterprising CSS’ers may want to try and apply the method to a menu such as we’ve discussed here.
http://www.thebigerns.com/freeway/link_icons/
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:36 AM, hugh wrote:
Ooh, sorry Big E, I forgot to make the output ‘more readable’…!!!
Have a look at it again now, it might be easier to read the source!
http://www.dowlass.plus.com/test
I’ve no idea how tags arise, when or where FW puts them in, so can’t suggest what I’ve done to make the get in the code.
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Ernie Simpson – Freeway 4 Pro User – http://www.thebigerns.com/freeway/