4: Managing, Testing, and Publishing a Site in Java

Generating Denso QR Bar Code in Java 4: Managing, Testing, and Publishing a Site

The Quick Tag Editor opens in the mode that is most appropriate for your selection, as shown in Figure 4-14 For example, if you click an image or formatted text, it displays the current tag so that you can edit it If you don t select anything or if you select unformatted text, the Quick Tag Editor opens with nothing in it, and you can enter the code you want to add Press Ctrl+T ( +T) to switch to another mode

Figure 4-14: You can view and edit HTML tags in the Quick Tag Editor without switching to code view

3 To add a new tag or attribute, simply type the code into the Quick Tag Editor If you aren t sure about a tag or attribute, press the spacebar, and the Hints drop-down list appears automatically, offering you a list of all the tags or attributes available for the element you re editing If this Hints drop-down list doesn t appear, choose Edit Preferences Code Hints (Windows) or Dreamweaver Preferences Code Hints (Mac) and make sure that the Enable Code Hints option is selected 4 To close the Quick Tag Editor and apply all your changes, press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac)

he best way to create Web designs today is with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) This part introduces you to the power and advantages of CSS, with two chapters on creating and using styles In 5, you find an introduction to CSS and a review of the CSS features in Dreamweaver In 6, you move on to creating CSS layouts, using <div> tags and other block-level elements to create accessible, flexible designs In 7, you find out how to create tables, split and merge cells, and use table attributes You also find tips about when to use tables and when CSS is the preferred option In 8, you get an introduction to frames and discover how targeting makes it possible to open a link in a specific part of the page In 9, you discover how the Dreamweaver templates can make creating Web pages faster, and best of all, how templates can save you time when you want to make changes to your page designs

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Introducing CSS Looking at CSS rule options Working in the CSS Styles panel Creating and editing CSS styles in the Property inspector Working with tag, class, and advanced style selectors Comparing internal and external style sheets

ant to add a little style to your pages Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are all the rave on the Web and with good reason CSS is the way to create Web sites today if you want to follow the latest standards and develop sites that are accessible, flexible, and designed to work on a wide range of devices The concept of creating styles has been around since long before the Web Desktop publishing programs, such as Adobe InDesign, and even word processing programs, such as Microsoft Word, have long used styles to manage the formatting and editing of text on printed pages Using styles in a word processor, you can create and save styles for common features, such as headlines and captions In print design, styles are great timesavers because they enable you to combine a collection of formatting options, such as Arial, bold, and italic, into one style and then apply all those options at once to any selected text in your document using a single style You also have the advantage that if you change a style, you can automatically apply the change everywhere you ve used that style in a document On the Web, you can do all that and more with CSS because you can use styles sheets for even more than just text formatting For example, you can use CSS to create styles that align images to the left or right side of a page, add padding around text or images, and change background and link colors You can even create more than one style sheet for the same page: one that makes your design look good on computers, another for cell phones, and a third a printed page