Can anyone tell me how I accidentally created a “Back to Top” link in the CSS menu action on a master page that now automatically works on every page it is applied to? I can’t seem to recreate it, and the “This Page” choice on the edit link menu is no longer there.
It saved me a ton of time creating a new website and I’d like to do it again . . .
The code it automatically put in is:
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Did you link to an Anchor?
But is your CSS menu not at the top of the page - and if so is it useful having that link in there?
To create an anchor select any item on your Master page that is at the top. You can draw a small graphic item for this purpose - it doesn’t need any colour so will be invisible.
With it selected Edit>Anchor and give it a name ie Top
Then you can select any item on your pages and add a Hyperlink and you will see your Anchor in the dropdown list to the right of the New Page button 1/2 way down.
David
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This is on a small menu at the bottom of each page.
After many experiments I figured it out.
I drew an anchor at the top of the page. Then in an html box at the bottom of the page I added some copy and linked it to the anchor. Removed the original anchor box and voila, the link in the bottom box STILL worked to go to the top of the page.
In the bottom box I then added the CSS Menu action, created my menu with links to other pages and made the last item in the list “back to top” . All the links work as they should with the last one looking like it has no link attached to it, but in reality it works as an automatic “Back to Top”.
Copied it to my Master Page and it now works on every page on the site it is applied to. I’m a big fan of “automatic” and this will be a huge time saver on large sites.
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This is just the default browser action (in many browsers, but not
all) when an anchor doesn’t point to anything on the page. It’s not
really safe to do this in the real world. You can get away with it,
but don’t rely on it. Best to have a real item at the very top of the
page and anchor to that.
Walter
On Jan 15, 2010, at 5:34 PM, Jan wrote:
All the links work as they should with the last one looking like it
has no link attached to it, but in reality it works as an automatic
“Back to Top”.
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Thanks for the heads up. And it was looking so unobtrusive in the small bottom menu . . . oh well.
Could I respectfully request that some guru out there make an automatic ‘back to top of this page’ action that will work in CSS menus with all browsers (if it is possible)? I’d be first in line to get it.
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Could I respectfully request that some guru out there make an automatic ‘back to top of this page’ action that will work in CSS menus with all browsers
But it is so simple to create an anchor and link to it that it doesn’t need an action! And if it is done on your Master with the back to top link in your CSS menu in the Master as well then it is automatic on every new page based on that Master.
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For the life of me I can’t make this work (and sorry, there is nothing simple about any web design program if you were raised on picas and points).
“Edit: anchor” is grayed out on all my master pages unless a graphic is used. But even anchoring to a graphic won’t work because there is no “this page” when I try to make the link. Copying from a page into a master just makes the link on each page go to the original anchor on the original page.
What am I doing wrong?
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You aren’t doing anything wrong!
This is slightly more difficult because you are trying to do it on a Master.
Try this:
Create the graphic anchor on your Master called ‘top’
On the Master select your CSS menu text that you want to be the ‘top’ link Edit>Hyperlink. Choose External, Protocol: other and type in #top (being a hash followed by the actual name of your anchor)
See how that works for you.
David
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The CSS Menu action will wrap any unlinked text in your list with an
empty anchor (#) to create the menu. As Walter mentions most browsers
see this link as a call to jump to the top of the page (they look for
an anchor, don’t find one and simply jump to the top of the page). If
your menu is already at the top of the page then you don’t really
notice anything, however, if the menu is below the fold then clicking
on the menu item will jump the user to the top of the page.
Not ideal.
To remedy the situation add a link to your text in the unordered list.
If the CSS Menu action sees a link it will leave it alone and won’t
add it’s own.
If you don’t want the menu to go anywhere simply use the following
line in your link;
javascript:void(0)
If you want your menu to jump to the top of the page then add an
anchor to an object at the page top (Edit/ Anchor) and apply a link to
your menu item text by selecting the page and then the anchor you
created.
Your menu item html should now look something like the code below;
<li class="fwNavItem"><a href="#top" style="cursor:default"><span
class="style30">copy</span></a></li>
I hope this helps explain things a bit.
Regards,
Tim.
PS. It may be nice if Freeway had an option to automatically add page
top anchors so that you could link directly to them without having to
create the anchors manually first.
On 15 Jan 2010, at 21:50, Jan wrote:
Can anyone tell me how I accidentally created a “Back to Top” link
in the CSS menu action on a master page that now automatically works
on every page it is applied to? I can’t seem to recreate it, and the
“This Page” choice on the edit link menu is no longer there.
It saved me a ton of time creating a new website and I’d like to do
it again . . .
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Thank You Thank You.
I did as DeltaDave said on a Master - all looks good.
And automatic page top anchors would be on my wish list too. 
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This reminds me of something you might want to do for SEO and
usability reasons, too:
###Don’t leave any unlinked items in your site menu.
Let’s say you have a menu like this one:
Home
Products
Widgets
Salsa
Oven Mitts
Dealers
USA
England
Bratislava
Support
Telephone
Online
On-site
Contact Us
Now you might be tempted to have no page for Products, Dealers, and
Support, since each of their sub-menu choices goes to a regular page.
But if you do, then you miss the opportunity to explain what each of
those options means, which will get you considerable Google juice.
So make a simple page that lists each of the sub-menu options as a
link (and maybe as an h3 link). Directly beneath that link, make the
next paragraph of text a concise description of that linked page.
Back at your menu, connect the Products, Dealers, and Support pages to
the “index” pages for those areas.
If you want to make this even more approachable and guessable for your
visitors (or the robot crawlers), then make each one of those areas in
a separate subfolder, and make each of the section index pages have
the filename index.html. Then if someone enters http://example.com/support
in their browser, they will get the overall picture of support, and
if someone had entered http://example.com/support/telephone.html and
decided to “back up” the URL by erasing part of it, they could explore
the other options, even if they entered your site through a deep link
to the telephone page.
Walter
On Jan 16, 2010, at 6:05 AM, Tim Plumb wrote:
The CSS Menu action will wrap any unlinked text in your list with an
empty anchor (#) to create the menu. As Walter mentions most
browsers see this link as a call to jump to the top of the page
(they look for an anchor, don’t find one and simply jump to the top
of the page). If your menu is already at the top of the page then
you don’t really notice anything, however, if the menu is below the
fold then clicking on the menu item will jump the user to the top of
the page.
Not ideal.
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