
In Dreamweaver, you can insert acronyms or abbreviations by clicking the Acronym or Abbreviation
button on the Text category of the Insert panel. You can also choose the appropriate command from
the Insert ➪ HTML ➪ Text Objects menu. These commands open a dialog box where you can enter
the expanded text for the acronym or abbreviation.
Modifying Text Format
As a Web designer, you easily spend at least as much time adjusting your text as you do getting it
into your Web pages. Luckily, Dreamweaver puts most of the tools you need for this task right at
your fingertips through the Property inspector or the Tag inspector.
On the Web today, designers have moved to using Cascading Style Sheets and away from hard-
coding text with
<font> and other tags. All versions of the major Web browsers support Cascading
Style Sheets and text formatting enjoys the most widespread browser support of all the CSS rules.
If you’re new to CSS and looking for a little background on how to create and apply
styles, see Chapter 7.
Adjusting font size
The best-practice route for setting font size with CSS is to apply an existing style—declared in either
an internal or external style sheet—to a tag or selection of text and then selecting the new size
from the CSS tab of the Property inspector, as shown in Figure 8-14. If no style has been previously
attached to the selection, Dreamweaver di ...