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Part I
Laying the Groundwork in Dreamweaver CS4
FIGURE 3-16
The Style Rendering toolbar not only allows you to quickly switch between
CSS media types, but you can also toggle CSS rendering on and off.
Print
Projection
TV
TTY
Design-time style sheets
Screen
Handheld
CSS toggle
The next button on the Style Rendering toolbar toggles the rendering of CSS. This capability is
extremely helpful when optimizing your CSS; for example, without CSS layout, you can quickly tell
how a screen reader would approach your page and determine if content needs to be repositioned to
make it more understandable.
The Style Rendering toolbar’s final button, Design-time Style Sheets, allows the designer to include
or exclude CSS style sheets to be rendered in the development phase, that is, design time. This is a
powerful feature that can help fine tune Dreamweaver’s rendering capabilities without affecting the
final published output.
The Coding toolbar
The Coding toolbar is quite different from the other toolbars in a number of ways. First, it’s only
available in Code view and, second, it’s a vertical rather than horizontal toolbar. The Coding toolbar
also cannot be repositioned in either Windows or Mac. These differences, however, quickly fall by
the wayside once coders understand the power inherent in the toolbar.
Much of the functionality is unique to the Coding toolbar (see Figure 3-17) although a few com- ...