Text-Only Popups

You learned how to create links to topics that force the topic to appear in a popup window (see page 102). Since the links simply point to topics in your project, the popup windows can be highly formatted (using Style Sheets) and contain images and multimedia effects. However, if you want to create a popup link to simple text that is not contained within a topic, you can create Text-only Popups. Since Text-only Popups do not link to project topics, you are limited to the amount of formatting you can control. In addition, Text-only Popups cannot contain images, audio or other multimedia effects. One appropriate use of Text-only Popups would be for glossary terms, where you want the definition of a term to pop up when users click the term.

Student Activity: Insert a Text-Only Popup