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Setting button rollover states

Setting button rollover states - InDesign Tutorial

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Setting button rollover states

- [Instructor] If you're familiar with hyperlinks in HTML, you know that they can look different depending on their state, for example, they'll have one look most of the time, and a different look when you move your cursor over them, called a hover, or rollover, state. Buttons in a PDF file are similar. Each button can have up to three different looks. For example, this button down here, the Request Form, looks a certain way when I'm not rolled over it, but as soon as I place my cursor over it, you'll see that it highlights, it changes its appearance. That's the rollover state. When I click down on it with a mouse button, you'll see that it highlights in a different way. Now, I'm holding the mouse button down right now, so that you can see that it's highlighting in its click form. If I roll off of it and let go of the mouse button, you'll see it goes back to its original state. Now, you'll also notice this dotted line around the button. That's called having the focus on the button…

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