Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible

634

Part III

Adding Advanced Design Features

Working with the Frameset

Property Inspector

The Frameset Property inspector manages elements, such as the borders, that are common to all the

frames within a frameset. It also offers more precise sizing control over individual rows and columns

than you can achieve visually by dragging the borders. If the Property inspector is not already open,

choose Window ➪ Properties to access it, and then select any of the frame borders in Design view.

When a browser visits a Web page that uses frames, it displays the title found in the

frameset HTML document for the entire frame. The easiest way to set that title is to

select the frameset and enter the name directly in the Title field of the Document toolbar, if visible.

You can also set the title by selecting the frameset and choosing Modify

➪ Page Properties. In the Page

Properties dialog box, select the General category and enter your choice of title in the Title text box, as

you would for any other Web page. All the other options in the Page Properties dialog box—including

background color and text color—apply to the <noframes> content, covered in the section “Handling

Frameless Browsers” later in this chapter.

Resizing frames in a frameset

With HTML, when you want to specify the size of a frame, you work with the row or column in

which the frame resides. Dreamweaver gives you two ways to alter ...