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Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible
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Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible

by Joseph Lowery
March 2009
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
1321 pages
46h 24m
English
Wiley
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Setting Your Preferences
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option makes it possible to affect the visibility of many AP elements with one command—hide the
parent AP element, and all the inheriting child AP elements disappear as well.
Width and Height options
When you choose Draw AP Div from the Insert panel, you drag out the size and shape of your AP
element. Choosing Insert ➪ Layout Objects ➪ AP Div puts an AP element of a default size and shape
at your current cursor position. The Width and Height options enable you to set these defaults.
Select the text boxes and type in your new values. Dreamweaver’s default is an AP element that is
200 pixels wide and 115 pixels high.
Background Color option
AP elements can have their own background colors independent of the Web page’s overall back-
ground color (which is set as a
<body> attribute). You can define the default background color of any
inserted AP element through either the Insert menu or the Insert panel. For this preference setting,
type a color, either by its standard name or as a hexadecimal triplet, directly into the text box. You
can also click the color swatch to display the Dreamweaver browser-safe color picker.
Note that although you can specify a different background color for the AP element, you
can’t alter the AP element’s default text and link colors (except on an AP-element-by-AP-
element basis) as you can with a page. If your page and AP elem
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