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Editing inside
For some bars you can do some editing of the button design directly on the first button,
using select inside. This allows you to select shapes inside the button group. See the
information about the SELECTOR TOOL in the Object Handling chapter (on page 125) for
details of select inside.

However you cannot do select inside editing, if either of the following options are turned
on in the Navbar dialog.
• SITE NAVIGATION BAR
• ADJUST BUTTON WIDTHS TO LABELS

If either of these options are turned on and you attempt a select inside, you’ll be
prompted and given the option of opening the Navbar dialog so that you can turn off
these options and then try again.

With the options off, you can use select inside and modify the shapes that make up your
button using the usual drawing tools.

IMPORTANT: Remember that the first button in your bar is the master button for your bar
(unless you have different start and end buttons – see below). So you must modify the
first button. Then your changes to the first button are immediately applied to the other
buttons in your bar. If you modify a button other than the master, the changes will not be
applied and will be lost as soon as you modify your bar.

Ungrouping, editing and regrouping
If you want to do any significant editing of a button design, it’s best to ungroup the
components that make up the Navbar and then regroup them again afterwards.
To ungroup your bar, select the Navbar by clicking on it on the canvas and then do a
normal ungroup operation ("ARRANGE" > "UNGROUP" or "Ctrl + U"). Or click the UNGROUP
TO EDIT GRAPHICS button at the bottom of the Navbar dialog.

Note: If your Navbar had the "Site navigation bar" option turned on, you’ll need to turn
that option back on again if required, after regrouping your modified bar.

Once your bar is ungrouped, it is no longer a navigation bar. You are left with a separate
button group for each button state. Also, if the "ALL BUTTONS THE SAME WIDTH" option was
turned on, ungrouping might change the button widths because this option is only
effective while the buttons are part of a Navbar. Although you should only make the
design changes to the master button(s), you’ll normally want to leave all the other buttons
on the page. They are used when you regroup your Navbar, to recover all your button
labels, links, etc., so that you don’t have to re-enter them again.

If you have a mouseover state, the 2 groups that make up the master button will be „soft
grouped" so that they stay together when you drag them around the page. Separate