Dreamweaver® CS3 Bible

Chapter 8. Working with Text

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Creating headlines in Dreamweaver

• Adding and editing paragraphs

• Dreamweaver Technique: Entering and Pasting Text

• Running the Spell Checker

• Automating your work with Find and Replace

• Handling whitespace

• Bringing Office documents online

• Using special text formats

• Working with HTML styles

• Changing fonts, font size, and font color

• Formatting dates

• Inserting HTML comments

If content is king on the Web, then certainly style is queen; together they rule hand in hand. Entering, editing, and formatting text on a Web page is a major part of a Webmaster's job. Dreamweaver gives you the tools to make the task as clear-cut as possible. From headlines to comments, this chapter covers the essentials of working with basic text; inserting and formatting dynamic data is covered in Chapter 19.

At first, Web designers didn't have many options for manipulating text. However, now the majority of browsers understand a number of text-related commands, and the designer can specify the font as well as its color and size. Dreamweaver includes a range of text-manipulation tools. All these topics are covered in this chapter, along with an important discussion of how to manipulate whitespace on the Web page.

Starting with Headings

Text in HTML is primarily composed of headings and paragraphs. Headings separate and introduce major sections of the document, just as a newspaper uses headlines to announce a story and subheads to highlight essential details. HTML has six levels of headings; ...