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After you’ve completed the editing operation and closed the editing window, you can open any Web
page containing the modified Library item to view the changes.
If your Library item is styled with an external style sheet and you’d like to see how it
renders while editing, use Dreamweaver’s Design Time Style Sheet feature. From the CSS
Styles panel Option menu, select Design Time; when the Design Time Style Sheet dialog opens, select
the style sheet from the Show Only at Design Time area.
Dreamweaver now allows you to use native Dreamweaver behaviors inside Library items. That
means you can place a navigation bar, a link for a pop-up window, or any other Dreamweaver
behavior inside your Library item. When the Library item is added to the page, the accompanying
JavaScript is also added.
You cannot use some features to the fullest extent when editing Library items. These
include custom JavaScript and styles. Each of these modifications requires a function or
link to be placed in the <head> tags of a page—a task that the Dreamweaver Library function cannot
handle for styles and custom JavaScript.
Updating Your Web Sites with Libraries
The effectiveness of the Dreamweaver Library feature becomes more significant when it comes time
to update an entire multipage site. Dreamweaver offers two opportunities for you to update your site:
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