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Create button symbols

Buttons are a special type of symbol used as navigation elements for a web page. You can easily edit buttons using the Property inspector. Because you can drag instances of a button from the symbol library into your document, you can change the graphical appearance of a single button and automatically update the appearance of all button instances in a navigation bar.

  • Almost any graphic or text object can become a button. To create a button or convert an object into a button, follow the steps in Create a symbol, and select Button for the symbol type. To import existing buttons, see Import and export symbols.

  • You can edit the text, URL, and target for one button instance without affecting other instances of the same button, and without breaking the symbol-instance relationship.

  • A button instance is encapsulated. Fireworks moves all the components and states associated with the buttons that you drag into the document.

  • Like other symbols, buttons have a registration point (a center point that helps you align text and the different button states while you edit the button).