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.3 To remove an item from the Launcher and Mini-Launcher, highlight the itemand click the minus (-) button.4 To move an item up or down the list, corresponding to moving it left or right(respectively) in the Launcher and Mini-Launcher, select the item and thenclick the arrow keys.5 Click OK.The Launcher and Mini-Launcher change to show the items you specified.68 Chapter 2Using the Object paletteThe Object palette contains buttons for inserting objects such as tables, layers,and images.To show or hide the Object palette, choose Window > Objects.Toinsert an object, click the corresponding Object palette button or drag the button sicon into the Document window.Hold down the Control (Windows) or Option(Macintosh) key while inserting an object to bypass the object-insertion dialogbox and instead insert an empty placeholder object of the specified type.(Forinstance, to insert a placeholder for an image, without specifying an image file,hold down Control or Option and click the Image button.)The Object palette contains six panels by default: Characters, Common, Forms,Frames, Head, and Invisibles.Use the pop-up menu at the top of the palette toswitch between panels.You can modify any object in the palette or create yourown objects; see Changing the Object palette.For information on each panel soptions, see the related topics in Dreamweaver Help.The Object palette contains the following panels:The Common panel contains the most commonly used objects, such as Image,Table, and Layer.The Characters panel contains special characters such as the copyright symbol,curved quotation marks, and trademark symbols.(Note that these symbols maynot display correctly on browsers other than Netscape Navigator 3 and 4 andInternet Explorer 3 and 4.)The Forms panel contains buttons for creating forms and form elements.The Frames panel contains common frameset structures.Dreamweaver Basics 69 The Head panel contains buttons for adding various HEAD elements, such asMETA, KEYWORDS, and BASE tags.The Invisibles panel contains buttons for creating objects that are not visible inthe Document window, such as named anchors.Choose View > InvisibleElements to display icons that mark the locations of these objects.Clickinvisible-element icons in the Document window to select the objects andchange their properties.See About invisible elements.Some of the General preference settings affect the Object palette.To modify thesepreferences, choose Edit > Preferences and then choose General.When you insert objects such as images, tables, scripts, and HEAD elements, adialog box prompts you for additional information.You can suppress thesedialog boxes by turning off the Show Dialog When Inserting Objects option.When you insert an object with this option off, the object is given defaultattribute values.Use the Property inspector to change object properties afterinserting the object.The Object Palette preference lets you display the contents of the Objectpalette as Text Only, Icons Only, or Text and Icons.Using the History paletteThe History palette keeps track of every step of your work in Dreamweaver.Todisplay the History palette, choose Window > History.You can use the History palette to undo multiple steps at once, to replay stepsyou ve performed, and to automate tasks by creating new commands.For details,see About the History palette.70 Chapter 2Using context menusDreamweaver makes extensive use of context menus, which provide a method forquickly accessing the most useful commands and properties related to the objector window you re working with.Context menus list only commands pertaining tothe current selection.To use context menus:1 Open the context menu by right-clicking (Windows) or Control-clicking(Macintosh) the object or window.2 Select the command from the context menu and release the mouse button.Dreamweaver Basics 71Using the HTML Source inspectorThe HTML Source inspector shows the code that browsers use to display thedocument as a Web page.To show or hide the HTML Source inspector, chooseWindow > HTML Source.Changes you make in the Document window are immediately reflected inthe HTML Source inspector.When you enter HTML into the HTMLSource inspector and then click outside the inspector, corresponding changesappear in the Document window.For more information, see Using the HTMLSource inspector.For minor editing of HTML tags, you can use the Quick Tag Editor instead ofshowing the HTML Source inspector.To display the Quick Tag Editor, pressControl+T (Windows) or Command+T (Macintosh), or choose Modify >Quick Tag Editor.For more information, see Editing an HTML tag in theDocument window.72 Chapter 2Setting preferencesDreamweaver has preference settings that control the general appearance of theDreamweaver user interface as well as options related to specific features such aslayers, style sheets, HTML, external editors, and previewing pages in browsers [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]