The Variables in the Button Properties section regulate the appearance of the navigation bar buttons and let you use custom images in place of default buttons. The Button Properties are:

• Button-style: Controls the overall appearance of buttons on the navigation bar. You can select from four distinct button styles: Incised, Solid, Text, and Icon.
• Nav-buttons: Provides an edit list that lets you select the buttons you want to display on the navigation bar and determine the order of display
• Info-text, Privacypolicy-text, and Request-text: These properties let you customize the display text on the Info, Privacypolicy, and Catalog Request buttons, if they're included in the navigation bar using the Nav-buttons Variable. This also assumes you haven't already uploaded images for them (see below)
• Image Fields: There are 14 separate Image fields for all the non-Contents buttons:
  • Up-image
  • Next-image
  • Show-order-image
  • Home-image
  • Info-image
  • Privacy-policy-image
  • Help-image
  • Search-image
  • Index-image
  • Download-image * Deprecated feature — previously applied to v1/v2 checkout (Order Forms).
  • Register-image
  • Request-image
  • Email-image
  • Mall-image

If you can create a custom button using image processing software, you can upload it into any of the Button Properties Image fields. Store Editor can use this image instead of the default buttons, as shown in figure 1. The Button-style Variable must be set to "Icon" for your button image to display.

Button-style: Use the drop-down menu to select a button style. Styles include
(see figure 2):

• Text – flat button with text only
• Solid – standard button with flat text
• Incised – standard button with text that appears recessed in the button
• Icon – uses images uploaded to the standard button fields and icon field for Contents pages

More information on button styles.

Nav-buttons: Click "Change" to add, remove, or reorder buttons appearing in your navigation bar.

The following list outlines the buttons that can be added to a navigation bar in the Store Editor:

• Contents: displays the Section(s) and Item(s) buttons. These buttons typically appear at the top of the navigation bar below the Home page button.
• Download (special case): Deprecated feature. The download link feature previously applied to older versions of checkout (v1/v2 checkout, also known as "Order Forms"). Customers should now be directed to use the link included in their order confirmation email to access the order status page, where they can download the downloadable item purchased.
• Email: creates a "mailto" link that opens the default email client when clicked; useful for adding a shortcut to your customer service email address for customers to use when they have questions.
• Empty: creates an empty button; useful for adding a space between Contents and Standard navigation buttons
• Help: links to http://store.yahoo.com/help.html which has information for shoppers
• Index: links to the site index (site map)
• Info: links to the required Info page at http://store.yahoo.com/account-id_or_account-name /info.html
• Mall: links to the URL in the Mall-url field; remove number to remove the Y! Shopping logo from the navigation bar. Can use to create another image button by uploading an image to the Mall-image field and entering the target URL to the Mall-url field.
• Next: links to the subsequent Section page if on a Section page or the subsequent Item page if on an Item page.
• Privacypolicy: links to the required privacy policy page at http://store.yahoo.com/account-id_or_account-name/privacypolicy.html
• Register (deprecated): no longer used; available only to legacy store merchants on the old checkout flow at the time the feature was deprecated.
• Request: links to Catalog Request form
• Search: links to the search page
• Show Order: links to shopping cart
• Up: links to the parent Section page if on an item or to the Home page if on a Section (or to a parent section if on a sub-section)

More information on removing buttons and reordering buttons.

Up-image: Click "Upload" to upload an image to be used as the Up button in your navigation bar (if included) if Button-style is set to icon. More info on using custom button images.

Next-image: Click "Upload" to upload an image to be used as the Next button in your navigation bar If included) if Button-style is set to icon. More info on using custom button images.

Show-order-image: Click "Upload" to upload an image to be used as the Show Order button in your navigation bar if Button-style is set to icon. More info on using custom button images.

Home-image: Click "Upload" to upload an image to be used as the Home button in your navigation bar (if included) if Button-style is set to icon. Ideal dimensions in pixels: 30h x 250w with top buttons, 90h x 90w with side buttons. If you leave Button-style as text but supply a Home-image, the image will be put into in the regular text navigation buttons.More info on using custom button images.

Info-image: Click "Upload" to upload an image to be used as the Info button in your navigation bar if Button-style is set to icon. More info on using custom button images.

Info-text: Enter text to appear on the Info button in your navigation bar when the button-style is set to text, solid or incised. For example, you may wish to change the text to "About Us".

Privacypolicy-image: Click "Upload" to upload an image to be used as the Privacy Policy button in your navigation bar if Button-style is set to icon. More info on using custom button images.

Privacypolicy-text: Enter text to appear on the Privacy Policy button in your navigation bar when the button-style is set to text, solid or incised.

Help-image: Click "Upload" to upload an image to be used as the Help button in your navigation bar if Button-style is set to icon. More info on using custom button images.

Search-image: Click "Upload" to upload an image to be used as the Search button in your navigation bar if Button-style is set to icon. More info on using custom button images.

Index-image: Click "Upload" to upload an image to be used as the Index button in your navigation bar if Button-style is set to icon. More info on using custom button images.

Download-image: Deprecated feature. The download link feature previously applied to older versions of checkout (v1/v2 checkout, also known as "Order Forms"). This image was previously used in the navigation bar.

Register-image (deprecated): Click "Upload" to upload an image to be used as the Customer Register button in your navigation bar if Button-style is set to icon. More info on using custom button images.

Request-image: Click "Upload" to upload an image to be used as the Catalog Request button in your navigation bar if Button-style is set to icon. More info on using custom button images.

Request-text: Enter text to appear on the Catalog Request button in your navigation bar when the button-style is set to text, solid or incised.

Email-image: Click "Upload" to upload an image to be used as the Email button in your navigation bar if Button-style is set to icon. More info on using custom button images.

Mall-image: Click "Upload" to upload an image to be used in place of the Yahoo! Shopping image. Note: If you wish to direct this button to a different URL you must specify that URL in the Mall-url field.

Mall-url: Enter a URL as the destination when the Mall-image button is clicked.

More Navigation Button Help

• Navigation Button Overview
• Changing Navigation Button Order
• Removing buttons
• Editing button text
• Changing the navigation bar position (side-buttons or top)
• Changing the buttons appearance such as color, padding, width, text size, font, and button style
• Using Custom Button Images
• Removing the Yahoo! Shopping logo

See Also

• Variables Overview
• Account Variables
• Color and Typeface Variables
• Image Dimension Variables
• Page Layout Variables
• Page Properties Variables
• Store Properties Variables
• Custom Variables
• Overriding a Variable