March 2009
Beginner to intermediate
1321 pages
46h 24m
English
Content preview from Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible
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Part II
Designing and Crafting Basic Pages
When you begin inserting JavaScript (or code from another scripting language such as VBScript)
into your Web page, all the subroutines and document-wide declarations go into the
<head> area.
Dreamweaver uses this format by default when you insert a JavaScript behavior.
Dreamweaver enables you to insert, view, and modify
<head> content without opening an HTML
editor. Dreamweaver’s View Head Content capability enables you to work with
<meta> tags and
other
<head> HTML code as you do with the regular content in the visual editor.
Establishing Page Properties
When you first open a page in Dreamweaver, your default Web page is untitled, with no back-
ground image and only a plain, white background. You can change any of these properties and more
through Dreamweaver’s Page Properties dialog box.
As usual, Dreamweaver gives you more than one method for accessing the Page Properties dia-
log box. You can choose Modify ➪ Page Properties, or you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+J
(Command+J).
Here’s another way to open the Page Properties dialog box: Click the Page Properties
button of the Text Property inspector.
The Page Properties dialog box, shown in Figure 6-1, gives you easy control over the overall look
and feel of the HTML page.
If you set options in the Appearance (HTML) category, the values you assign through
the Page Properties dialog ...
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