Macromedia Dreamweaver - CC User Manual

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Chapter 1: What's new

New features summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Chapter 2: Workspace and workflow

Dreamweaver workflow and workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Customizing the Dreamweaver workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Working in the Document window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Using toolbars, inspectors, and context menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Use the Insert panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

CSS Designer panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

DOM panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Search files based on filename or content | Mac OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Zoom in and out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Optimizing the workspace for visual development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

CEF integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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Chapter 3: Site management

About Dreamweaver sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

About dynamic sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Set up a local version of your site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Connect to a remote server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Manage Sites dialog box options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Set up a testing server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Version Control and Advanced settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Import and export Dreamweaver site settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Edit an existing remote website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Set site preferences for transferring files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Chapter 4: File management

Creating and opening documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Managing files and folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Getting and putting files to and from your server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Checking in and checking out files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Synchronizing files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Comparing files for differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Cloaking files and folders in your Dreamweaver site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Storing file information in Design Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Testing your Dreamweaver site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Chapter 5: Layout and design

Using visual aids for layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Using Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Laying out pages with CSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

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Working with Bootstrap files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Visual Media Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Responsive design using fluid grid layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Presenting content with tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Using jQuery UI widgets in Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Using jQuery effects in Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Chapter 6: CSS

Understanding Cascading Style Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

CSS Designer panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Set CSS Styles preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Create a CSS rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Set CSS properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Edit a CSS rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Add a property to a CSS rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Apply, remove, or rename CSS class styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Move/export CSS rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Convert inline CSS to a CSS rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Link to an external CSS style sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Edit a CSS style sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Format CSS code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Disable/Enable CSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Inspect CSS in Live view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Check for cross-browser CSS rendering issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Use Design-Time style sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Working with div tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Apply gradients to background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

CSS3 transition effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Use Dreamweaver sample style sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

The CSS Styles panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Chapter 7: Page content and assets

Set page properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Set CSS link properties for an entire page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Set CSS heading properties for an entire page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Set title and encoding properties for a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Use a tracing image to design apage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Understanding document encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Select and view elements in the Document window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Zoom in and out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Set download time and size preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Working with text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Arabic and Hebrew text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Edit in Live View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

DOM panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Set text properties in the Property inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

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Spell check a web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Import tabular data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Import Microsoft Office documents (Windows only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Create a link to a Word or Excel document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Use HTML Formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Use horizontal rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Modify font combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Add Edge Web Fonts to the Font list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Insert dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Working with assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Creating and managing a list of favorite assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Insert and edit images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Adding media objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Adding video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Insert HTML5 video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Inserting SWF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Adding web widgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Adding Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Insert HTML5 audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Automating tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

About assets and libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Working with library items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Working with Photoshop and Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Chapter 8: Linking and navigation

About linking and navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Linking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Jump menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Navigation bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Image maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Troubleshooting links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Chapter 9: Previewing

Preview and inspect web pages on multiple devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Previewing pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Chapter 10: Coding

General information about coding in Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Setting up your coding environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Setting coding preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Writing and editing code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Collapsing code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Lint code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Optimize code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Editing code in Design view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Working with head content for pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Working with server-side includes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

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Managing tag libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Importing custom tags into Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Chapter 11: Javascript

Using JavaScript behaviors (general instructions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Applying built-in JavaScript behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Chapter 12: Cross-product

Add-Ons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Cross-application integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Working with Fireworks and Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Working with Flash and Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Working with Adobe Bridgeand Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Working with Device Central and Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Working with ConnectNow and Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

AIR Extension for Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Using Dreamweaver with Adobe Online services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Extract in Dreamweaver CC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Dreamweaver-Business Catalyst integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Import Microsoft Office documents (Windows only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Chapter 13: Templates

About Dreamweaver templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Recognizing templates and template-based documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Creating a Dreamweaver template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Creating editable regions in templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Creating repeating regions in templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Using optional regions in templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Defining editable tag attributes in templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Creating a nested template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Editing, updating, and deleting templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Exporting and importing template content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Applying or removing a template from an existing document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Editing content in a template-based document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Tem plate sy ntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Setting authoring preferences for templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Chapter 14: Mobile and multiscreen

Creating media queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Change page orientation for mobile devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Creating web applications for mobile devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Chapter 15: XML

About XML and XSLT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Performing XSL transformationson the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Performing XSL transformationson the client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

Missing character entities for XSLT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

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Chapter 16: Dynamic sites, pages and web forms

Understanding web applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Set up your computer for application development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Database connections for ColdFusion developers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Database connections for ASP developers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Database connections for PHP developers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Troubleshooting database connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Removing connection scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

Designing dynamic pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

Dynamic content sources overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Defining sources of dynamic content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Adding dynamic content to pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

Changing dynamic content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

Displaying database records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584

Viewing live data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Adding custom server behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

About building forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Using forms to collect information from users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Building ColdFusion forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

Creating web forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619

Enhanced HTML5 support for form elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632

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Chapter 17: Building applications visually

Building master and detail pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635

Building search and results pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

Building a record insert page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

Building an update record page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

Building a delete record page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

Building pages with advanced data manipulation objects (ColdFusion, ASP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662

Building a registration page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Building a login page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668

Building a page that only authorized users can access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

Securing a folder in your application (ColdFusion) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Using ColdFusion components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

Chapter 18: Accessibility

Dreamweaver and accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

Chapter 19: Dreamweaver and Creative Cloud

Synchronizing Dreamweaver settings with Creative Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

Chapter 20: System Requirements

System requirements for Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693

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New features summary

The 2015 release of Dreamweaver CC focuses on responsive design, improvements to code editing features, preview of web pages on devices, and batch extract of web-optimized images with multiple resolutions from Photoshop comps. Integration with the Bootstrap framework helps you build mobile-first, responsive websites. Visual Media Queries further complement the responsive web designing experience by enabling you to visualize and modify your design at various breakpoints.

This release also includes several enhancements to editing features in Live view and CSS Designer. This article introduces these new features and enhancements, and provides links to resources for more help and learning.

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• Device preview

• Visual Me d i a Q u er ies

• Linting support

• Emmet support

• Preview in Code View

• New code snippets

• Bootstrap integration

• New menus in Live view

• Support for Tables in Live View

• Support for jQuery UI elements in Live View

• DOM panel

• SVG code hints in HTML documents

• Technology previews

• Code folding

• Extract improvements

• Enhancements to Live view editing

• Coding toolbar changes

• CSS Designer improvements

• Testing server - workflow improvements

• Changes to Business Catalyst workflow

• Other changes

Device preview

Dreamweaver now lets you test your production-ready web pages simultaneously on multiple devices. You can see how your web page reflows in various form factors and also test interactive features on your pages. All these without having to install any mobile app or having to physically connect the devices to your desktop! Simply scan the auto generated QR code with your devices and preview your web pages on the devices.

Live inspect, when triggered on desktop, reflects on all connected devices and helps you inspect various elements and tweak the design as required.

For detailed information, see Preview and inspect web pages on multiple devices .

Visual Media Queries

Visual Media Query bars are a visual representation of the media queries present in a page. These bars help you visualize your web page at different breakpoints and how different components of your web page reflow in different viewports. While you view your page in different viewports, you can make design changes that are specific to a viewport without affecting the page design in other viewports.

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Visual Media Query consists of three bars as horizontal rows, each representing a category of media query:

• Green: Media queries with max-width conditions

• Blue : Media queries with both min-width and max-width conditions

• Purple : Media queries with min-width conditions

For more information, see Visual Media Q u e r i e s .

Support for linting code

With this new version of Dreamweaver, you can now debug your code for common errors using linting. Linting is the process of analyzing code to flag potential errors or suspicious usage of code. Dreamweaver can lint HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files when they are loaded, saved, or edited. The errors and warnings are then listed in the new Output panel.

For more information, see Lint code .

Support for Emmet

Are you an avid developer who types several lines of code in Dreamweaver? Save your time by using Emmet abbreviations to code. Easy to remember and type, these abbeviations expand into full-fledged code in Code View when you press the Tab key.

For detailed information, see Insert code using Emmet .

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Preview in Code view

If you are working in Split view, you can see any changes to images or colors instantly in Live or Design view. But, when you prefer to work only in Code view, images are just filenames, which tend to be unintuitive most often. Colors (unless predefined colors are used), too, are only a set of obscure set of numbers. With this version of Dreamweaver, you can quickly preview images and colors right within Code view. This feature helps you make a visual connection between the image filenames and the color formats with the actual image or color they represent. As a result, you can take design decisions faster and cut down the development time significantly.

For more information, see Preview images and colors in Code view .

The Code view also displays an error preview. The line number of the erroneous code is highlighted in red. When you hover your mouse over the number, a brief description of the error is displayed.

Note: Only the first error in the line is displayed. If the line contains only a warning, the description of the warning is displayed. If the line contains a warning and an error, only the error description is displayed.

New code snippets

Snippets are portions of code that you can reuse repeatedly in your projects. This release of Dreamweaver provides new and updated code snippets:

• Boostrap_Snippets

• CSS_Animation_And_Transitions

• CSS_Effects

• CSS_Snippets

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• HTML_Snippets

• JavaScript Snippets (updated)

• PHP_Snippets

• Preprocessor_Snippets

• Responsive_Design_Snippets

For information on using code snippets, see Work with c o de s n i p p et s .

Bootstrap integration

Bootstrap is the most popular, free, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile-first websites. The framework includes responsive CSS and HTML templates for buttons, tables, navigation, image carousels, and other elements that you can use on your web page. A few optional JavaScript plug-ins too are available, which enable developers with even basic coding knowledge to develop great responsive websites.

Dreamweaver lets you create Bootstrap documents and also edit existing web pages created using Bootstrap. You can begin designing your Bootstrap website using one of the Bootstrap starter templates that you can choose from the New Doc u m ent d i a lo g b ox ( St a r te r Te m p l a t e s > B oo t s t rap Te m p l a t e s ).

• Bootstrap-Agency

• Bootstrap-eCommerce

• Bootstrap-Portfolio

• Bootstrap-Product

• Bootstrap-Real Estate

• Bootstrap-Resume

You can also create a custom Bootstrap document from the New Document dialog box (New Document > Bootstrap). Then, build the website brick-by-brick using Bootstrap components such as accordions and carousels using the Insert panel in Dreamweaver. Or, if you have Photoshop comps, use Extract to bring in images, fonts, styles, text, and more into your Bootstrap document.

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Whether it is a fully designed Bootstrap file or a work-in-progress design, you can edit them in Dreamweaver to not only edit code, but also use visu al editing features such as Live View editing, visual CSS designer, Visual Media Q ueries , and Extract to make design changes.

Note: You can open websites created using only Bootstrap framework version 3 and later in Dreamweaver.

For detailed information, see Working with Bootstrap files .

Support for editing tables in Live view

You can edit tables in Live view easily and quickly using one or a combination of the following options:

• Formatting options in Element Display

• Modify > Table menu

Note: Modify menu is now enabled in Live view.

For more information, see Resize a tableand Format tables and cells.

New menus in Live view

The editing capabilites in Live view have now become better with the following menus available in Live view:

• Modify

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• Format

• Commands

• Site

• 'Paste Special' option in Edit and context menu

Support for jQuery UI elements in Live view

Using the Insert panel, you can now directly insert jQuery widgets in Live view. Drag the required element from the Insert panel on to Live view and hold your mouse to use one of the following features to insert:

• Live Guides: These guides appear as you hover over the elements in Live view after dragging the required element

from the Insert panel. Using Live Guides, you can insert elements at the top or bottom, or to the left or right of an element in focus.

• DOM icon: The DOM icon appears when you pause for a brief while when the Live Guides appear. Click the icon

to view the DOM structure in a pop-up and drop the element at a precise location in the document structure.

• Position Assist: Position Assist helps you position the element before, after, or nest within the element in focus (in

Live view).

Note: The features above are displayed based on the element you choose to insert.

For more information, see Insert elements directly in Live view .

DOM panel

Element Quick View is now replaced with the DOM panel (Windows > DOM). The DOM panel provides all the functionalities that Element Quick View provided and more. This panel is available in all workspaces and is persistent, which means, you can open two documents, open, and access their DOM panels simultaneously.

Using the DOM panel, you can:

• Drag elements from the Insert panel to insert them precisely in the document structure.

• Copy, paste, duplicate, move, or delete structural elements in the document.

• View any element on the page in context with the document structure - the element in focus is highlighted in the

DOM panel.

For detailed information on using the DOM panel and editing the HTML structure using the panel, see DOM panel.

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SVG code hints in HTML documents

Code hints for all SVG elements and attributes are now supported in HTML documents. Using these code hints, you can now add SVG elements in Code view of HTML documents just like you add in an SVG document.

Technology Previews

Starting with this release, the Dreamweaver team provides previews of certain features to gather customer feedback. Based on the feedback, these features will be improved upon further and included as core features of Dreamweaver. You can access such features from the Technology Previews category of the Preferences dialog box.

The preview feature in this release is Code Highlighting. This feature highlights all occurences of any selected text in Code view.

To use this feature, perform the following steps:

1 Go to Preferences > Technology Previews.

2 Enable Code Highlighting. Then, click Apply and Close to close the Preferences dialog box.

3 Open the document in which you want to use code highlighting. You can use code highlighting in any type of

document, such as, HTML, JS, CSS, and LESS.

4 In Code view, double-click the text - tag, word, or phrase - that needs to be highlighted.

All occurences of the selected text are highlighted in Code view.

You can navigate between the highlighted text using the following keyboard shortcuts:

• Move forward: F3 (Win); Cmd+G (Mac)

• Move backward: Shift+F3 (Win); Cmd+Shift+G (Mac)

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Custom preview in Code view using showPreview API

With this release of Dreamweaver, you can generate a custom preview popup that gets displayed when you hover your mouse over the code in Code view. To implement customized previews, you can use the new API, showPreview, along with the existing mm:browsercontrol API. For example, you can use these APIs to display a preview of all the parameters of a JavaScript function when you hover your mouse over the name of the function.

Code folding

In previous versions of Dreamweaver, you had to select code blocks in Code view and then collapse them. In this version and later, you can collapse code blocks by simply hovering over the line numbers and clicking the triangle that appears.

Code folding (collapsing) is available in HTML, CSS, LESS, Sass, SCSS, JS, PHP, XML, and SVG files and is based on tag blocks.

The Copy, Cut, Paste, and drag-and-drop actions retain the code folding state. For example, when you copy a code block that is collapsed, the Paste action pastes the copied text as a collapsed block.

In HTML files, unlike the earlier code collapse functionality, the collapsed content now contains the closing tag and is rendered differently. Also, the number of characters displayed in a collapsed code block is now increased. This helps you to preview the initial attributes, if any.

For detailed information, see Collapsing code.

Extract enhancements

• Extract for devices

• Support for % units

Extract for devices

Devices not only vary in sizes, but also in resolutions. Your plan for a responsive web design must account for multiple resolution versions of images that are rendered appropriately on devices. However, it can be a daunting task to create so many different resolution versions for all the images in your project.

Extract in Dreamweaver eases up this task to a large extent. While extracting an image from your Photoshop comp in the 2015 release of Dreamweaver, you can choose to extract different resolution versions of that image too. The image in Photoshop is automatically scaled in different, predefined resolutions during extraction.

You can then call these images in JavaScript or media queries to display them based on the device they are viewed upon. For example, for high density retina display, you can use the 2X version of the image.

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Support for % units

In the Extract panel, you can now view the width and height of images in % values in addition to pixels. You can also view the measurements in %.

When you click an asset in the Extract panel, the pop-up that appears provides you an option to switch between pixels and %. The unit you select in this pop-up is retained when you view measurements between assets.

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Nested Insert in Live View

Now, you can insert elements within other elements in Live view. When you drag elements from the Insert panel, Asset panel, or within Live view, and hover over different elements on the page, you will notice the visual feedback for nesting elements (along with before and after guides).

• Before/After guides: When you hover over top and bottom 30% of the element.

• Nesting visual feedback: When you hover over the middle 40% of the element.

Editing Selectors directly in Element Display

You can now simply click the name of the Selector in Element Display to edit it. You can commit the changes by clicking anywhere on the page.

Coding toolbar changes

The following options in the Coding toolbar related to collapsing code have been removed:

• Collapse Full Tag

• Collapse Selection

Note: These options have been removed from the right-click context menu and the Edit menu as well. You can now

Collapsing codeby hovering your mouse over the line number and clicking the triangle that appears. Also, the following

options are now not available for HTML, CSS, and JS files.

• Highlight Invalid Code

• Syntax Error Alerts in Info Bar

You can now use linting to find errors in the code and the Output panel displays the linting results.

CSS Designer improvements

• All and Current modes

• Code hints

• Color coding for media queries

• Other changes

All and Current modes

CSS Designer now provides two different modes of viewing and editing CSS properties:

• All: All the CSS, media queries, and selectors in the current document are listed in this mode. This mode is not

sensitive to the selection in Design or Live view.

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This mode is optimal if you want to create CSS, media queries, or selectors.

• Current: Computed styles for any element selected in Design or Live view are listed in this mode. In a CSS file, if

the focus is on a selector, this mode displays the properties of that selector.

This mode is optimal if you want to edit the properties of selectors associated with the element selected in the document.

Code hints

Dreamweaver now displays code hints in CSS Designer, similar to Code view, for setting new properties.

Note: Options that have further action associated with them, such as manage fonts, color picker, and browse, are not available in CSS Designer.

Color coding for media queries

Media queries in the CSS Designer panel are now color coded to match Visu a l Media Queries .

• Green: Media queries with max-width conditions

• Blue : Media queries with both min-width and max-width conditions

• Purple : Media queries with min-width conditions

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Other changes

• Show Set option: The Show Set check box in the Properties section is now selected by default when you first launch

Dreamweaver. Any change to this option (select or unselect) is persistent in all the subsequent Dreamweaver sessions.

• The panel scrolls to display Add Property at the center: When you click + in the Properties section, the section

scrolls so that the Add Property row is displayed at the center of the panel. If Properties section is too small, add property row is displayed at the bottom of the panel.

• Background highlighting while adding new property: When the focus is on the Add New Property text box, the

row is highlighted in grey background.

• Change in the position of + and - buttons: + and - buttons that appear in each pane in the CSS Designer panel are

moved from extreme right to extereme left to make them more visible.

• Custom category is renamed: The category name for Custom properties is changed More.

Testing server workflow changes

The testing server workflow improvements in this release aim to make editing of documents with server-side code in Live view easy and seamless.

Changes in server setup

Unlike the previous versions of Dreamweaver, you can now designate a specific server as either a testing server or a remote server, and not both. Check boxes in the user interface of server setup are replaced with radio buttons to enforce the specification of servers.

If you import a site into Dreamweaver CC 2015, which has a single server specified as both testing and remote server, a duplicate entry of the server is created. Then, one is marked as remote and the other is marked as testing server.

Automatic pushing of dynamic files

Dreamweaver now automatically syncs dynamic documents to your testing server when you open, create, or save changes made to dynamic documents. Dreamweaver no longer displays "Update Testing Server" or "Push Dependent Files" dialog boxes for testing server workflows.

For more information, see Set up a testing server .

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Changes to Business Catalyst workflow

Business Catalyst extension is retired and will not be available for use with Dreamweaver CC 2015 release and later. Dreamweaver CC 2014.1.1 is the last release that is compatible with the Business Catalyst extension.

To use Business Catalyst with Dreamweaver CC 2015 release and later, use the SFTP connection option in Dreamweaver. For more information see the

Here's the official announcement on this change on the Business Catalyst website.

Business Catalyst documentation.

Other changes

• Insert panel is reorganized to group all options in Common, Layout ,and Media categories into a more logical

category - HTML.

• Mini tour videos and the link to launch them from Help menu are removed. This option is not available for non-

English locales too.

• The options present in the document bar drop-down at the bottom of a page are cleaned up - only Orientation, Full

Size, and Edit Sizes options are available now.

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Chapter 2: Workspace and workflow

Dreamweaver workflow and workspace

Dreamweaver workflow overview

You can use several approaches to create a website. This is one approach:

Plan and set up your site

Determine where the files will go and examine site requirements, audience profiles, and site goals. Additionally, consider technical requirements such as user access, as well as browser, plug-in, and download restrictions. After you’ve organized your information and determined a structure, you can begin creating your site. (See

sites.)

About Dreamweaver

Organize and manage your site files

In the Files panel you can easily add, delete, and rename files and folders to change the organization as needed. The Files panel also has many tools for managing your site, transferring files to and from a remote server, setting up a Check In/Check Out process to prevent files from being overwritten, and synchronizing the files on your local and remote sites. From the Assets panel, you can easily organize the assets in a site; you can then drag most assets directly from the Assets panel into a Dreamweaver document. You can also use Dreamweaver to manage aspects of your

Contribute® sites. (See Managing files and foldersand Managing assets and libraries.)

Adobe

Lay out your web pages

Choose the layout technique that works for you, or use the Dreamweaver layout options in conjunction with one another to create your site’s look. You can use Dreamweaver Fluid Grid layouts or default templates to get started. You can create new pages based on a Dreamweaver template, then update the layout of those pages automatically when the template changes. If you want to display multiple elements at once in a browser, you can use frames to lay out your documents. (See

Add content to pages

Add assets and design elements such as text, images, rollover images, image maps, colors, movies, sound, HTML links, jump menus, and more. You can use built-in page-creation features for such elements as titles and backgrounds, type di rect ly in the p age, or i mpor t co nte nt f rom o the r docu ment s. D reamwe ave r als o provi des t ools for maxi mizi ng w ebsi te performance and for testing pages to ensure compatibility with different web browsers. (See

Create pages by hand coding

Coding web pages by hand is another approach to creating pages. Dreamweaver provides easy-to-use visual editing tools, but it also provides a sophisticated coding environment; you can use either approach, or both, to create and edit your pages. (See

Creating pages with CSS and Laying out pages with CSS.)

Adding content to pages.)

Working with page co d e .)

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Workspace and workflow

Many websites contain dynamic pages that allow visitors to view information stored in databases, and usually allow some visitors to add new information and edit information in the databases. To create such pages, you must first set up a web server and application server, create or modify a Dreamweaver site, and connect to a database. (See

Preparing to

build dynamic sites.)

Create dynamic pages

In Dreamweaver, you can define a variety of sources of dynamic content, including recordsets extracted from databases, form parameters, and JavaBeans components. To add the dynamic content to a page, simply drag it on to the page.

You can set your page to display one record or many records at a time, display more than one page of records, add special links to move from one page of records to the next (and back), and create record counters to help users keep track of the records. (See

Making pages dynamic.)

Test a n d p ub l is h

Testing your pages is an ongoing process that happens throughout the development cycle. At the end of the cycle, you pu blish the site on a s erver. Many d eve lop ers also s che dul e pe riod ic m aintena nce to ens ure th at t he s ite rema ins cur rent and functional. (See

Getting and putting files to and from your server.)

Workspace layout overview

The Dreamweaver workspace lets you view documents and object properties. The workspace also places many of the most common operations in toolbars so that you can quickly make changes to your documents.

A Application bar B Extract panel C Document toolbar D Document window E Workspace switcher F Panel groups G Live View H Code View I

Tag selec tor

Workspace elements overview

The workspace includes the following elements:

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Note: Dreamweaver provides many other panels, inspectors, and windows. To open the panels, inspectors, and windows, use the Window menu.

The Welcome screen Lets you open a recent document or create a new document. From the Welcome screen, you can

also learn more about Dreamweaver by taking a product tour or accessing learn and help content for users with varying skill levels and read about the new features in the current and past releases. Welcome Screen lets you create a new Starter Template too.

The Application bar Is across the top of the application window and contains a workspace switcher, menus (Windows

only), and other application controls.

The Document toolbar Contains buttons that provide options for different views of the Document window (such as

Design view, Live view, and Code view), various viewing options, and some common operations such as previewing in a browser.

The Standard toolbar To display the Standard toolbar, select View > Toolbars > Standard. The toolbar contains buttons

for common operations from the File and Edit menus: New, Open, Browse in Bridge, Save, Save All, Print Code, Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, and Redo.

The Coding toolbar (Displayed in Code view only.) Contains buttons that let you perform many standard coding

operations.

The Document window Displays the current document as you create and edit it.

The Property inspector Lets you view and change a variety of properties for the selected object or text. Each object has

different properties.

The Tag selector Located in the Status bar at the bottom of the Document window. Shows the hierarchy of tags

surrounding the current selection. Click any tag in the hierarchy to select that tag and all its contents.

Panels Help you monitor and modify your work. Examples include the Insert panel, the CSS Designer panel, and the

Files panel. To expand a panel, double-click its tab.

The Extract panel Lets you upload and view your PSD files on Creative Cloud. Using this panel, you can extract CSS,

text, images, fonts, colors, gradients, and measurements from your PSD comps into your document.

The Insert panel Contains buttons for inserting various types of objects, such as images, tables, and media elements,

into a document. Each object is a piece of HTML code that lets you set various attributes as you insert it. For example, you can insert a table by clicking the Table button in the Insert panel. If you prefer, you can insert objects using the Insert menu instead of the Insert panel.

The Files panel Lets you manage your files and folders, whether they are part of a Dreamweaver site or on a remote

server. The Files panel also lets you access all the files on your local disk.

Document window overview

The Document window shows the current document. To switch to a document, click its tab.

You can select any of the following views:

Live view (View > Live View) Live view displays a more realistic representation of what your document will look like

in a browser, and lets you interact with the document exactly as you would in a browser. You can edit HTML elements directly in Live View and instantly preview your changes in the same view as well. For more information on editing in Live View, see

Edit in Live View.

Design view (View > Design) A design environment for visual page layout, visual editing, and rapid application

development. In this view, Dreamweaver displays a fully editable, visual representation of the document, similar to what you would see when viewing the page in a browser.

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Code view (View > Code) A hand-coding environment for writing and editing HTML, JavaScript, and any other kind

of code.

Split Code view (View > Split Code) A split version of Code view that lets you scroll to work on different sections of

the document at the same time.

Code and Design view (View > Code And Design) Lets you see both Code view and Design view for the same

document in a single window.

Live Code view (View > Live Code) Only available when viewing a document in Live view. Live Code view displays the

actual code that a browser uses to execute the page, and can dynamically change as you interact with the page in Live view. Live Code view is not editable.

When a Document window is maximized (the default), tabs appear at the top of the Document window showing the filenames of all open documents. Dreamweaver displays an asterisk after the filename if you have made changes that you haven’t saved yet.

Dreamweaver also displays the Related Files toolbar below the document’s tab (or below the document’s title bar if you are viewing documents in separate windows). Related documents are documents associated with the current file, such as CSS files or JavaScript files. To open one of these related files in the Document window, click its filename in the Related Files toolbar.

Document toolbar overview

The Document toolbar contains buttons that let you toggle between different views of your document quickly. The toolbar also contains some common commands and options related to viewing the document and transferring it between the local and remote sites.

A Code view B Show Live and Code view C Live view D Go to Inspect mode E Show Live view source in Code view F Refresh G File path and name H

Preview/Debug in browser I Live view options J File management

The following options appear in the Document toolbar:

Code View Displays only the Code view in the Document window.

Show Live and Code Views Splits the Document window between the Code and the Live/Design views. Design view

option is not available for fluid grid documents.

Live View Displays an interactive, browser-based view of the document. You can also edit HTML elements in Live

View. The drop-down list adjacent to the Live options lets you switch between Live and Design views. This drop-down list is not available in fluid grid documents.

Preview/Debug in Browser Allows you to preview or debug your document in a browser. Select a browser from the

pop-up menu.

File Management Displays the File Management pop-up menu.

Standard toolbar overview

The Standard toolbar contains buttons for common operations from the File and Edit menus: New, Open, Browse in Bridge, Save, Save All, Print Code, Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, and Redo. Use these buttons just as you would use the equivalent menu commands.

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Browser Navigation toolbar overview

The Browser Navigation toolbar becomes active in Live view, and shows you the address of the page you’re looking at in the Document window. Live view acts like a regular browser, so even if you browse to a site outside of your local site (for example, http://www.adobe.com), Dreamweaver will load the page in the Document window.

A Browser controls B Address box C Live View options

By default, links are not active in Live view. Having links non-active lets you select or click link text in the Document window without being taken to another page. To test links in Live view, you can enable one-time clicking or continuous cl ick ing by sel ect ing Follo w Li nks or Fol low Li nks Con tinuo usly f rom the View o pti ons me nu to t he r igh t of th e ad dre ss box.

Coding toolbar overview

The Coding toolbar contains buttons that let you perform many standard coding operations, such as collapsing and expanding code selections, highlighting invalid code, applying, and removing comments, indenting code, and inserting re cent ly u sed co de sn ipp ets. The C od ing t ool bar a ppe ars v erti cally on t he le ft si de of the D oc ume nt wi ndow, an d is o nly visible when Code view is displayed.

You cannot undock or move the Coding toolbar, but you can hide it (View > Toolbars > Coding). For information on the different options available in the toolbar, see

You can also edit the Coding toolbar to display more buttons (such as Show Hidden Characters, and Auto Indent), or hide buttons that you don’t want to use. To do so, however, you must edit the XML file that generates the toolbar. For more information, see Extending Dreamweaver.

Insert code using the Coding toolbar.

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Status bar overview

The Status bar at the bottom of the Document window provides additional information about the document you are creating.

A Tag s el e ctor B Mobile size C Tab let si ze D Desktop size E Window si ze

Tag sel e c tor

Shows the hierarchy of tags surrounding the current selection. Click any tag in the hierarchy to select that tag and all its contents. Click <body> to select the entire body of the document. To set the class or ID attributes for a tag in the tag selector, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the tag and select a class or ID from the context menu.

Mobile size

Shows a preview of the document in mobile size - 480 X 800 by default. To change the default size, click Window Size pop-up menu > Edit Sizes.

Tablet siz e

Shows a preview of the document in tablet size - 768 X 1024 by default. To change the default size, click Window Size pop-up menu > Edit Sizes.

Desktop size

Shows a preview of the document in desktop size - 1000 px width by default. To change the default size, click Window Size pop-up menu > Edit Sizes.

Window size pop-up menu

(Not available in Code view.) Lets you resize the Document window to predetermined or custom dimensions. When you change the view size of a page in design or live view only the dimensions of the view size change. The document size is unaltered.

In addition to predetermined and custom sizes, Dreamweaver also lists sizes specified in a media query. When you select a size corresponding to a media query, Dreamweaver uses the media query to display the page. You can also change the page orientation to preview the page for mobile devices where the page layout changes based on how the device is held.

Property inspector overview

The Property Inspector lets you examine and edit the most common properties for the currently selected page element, such as text or an inserted object. The contents of the Property Inspector vary depending on the element selected. For example, if you select an image on your page, the Property Inspector changes to show properties for the image (such as the file path to the image, the width and height of the image, the border around the image, if any, and so on).

The Property Inspector is at the lower edge of the workspace by default, but you can undock it and make it a floating panel in the workspace.

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Insert panel overview

The Insert panel contains buttons for creating and inserting objects such as tables, images, and links. The buttons are organized into several categories, which you can switch by selecting the desired category from the drop-down list at the top.

Some categories have buttons with pop-up menus. When you select an option from a pop-up menu, it becomes the default action for the button. For example, if you select Image Placeholder from the Image button’s pop-up menu, the next time you click the Image button, Dreamweaver inserts an image placeholder. Anytime you select a new option from the pop-up menu, the default action for the button changes.

The Insert panel is organized in the following categories:

Common Lets you create and insert the most commonly used elements such as div tags and objects, such as images,

and tables.

Structure Lets you insert structural elements such as div tags, headings, lists, paragraphs, headers, and footers.

Media Lets you insert media elements such as Edge Animate composition, HTML5 audio and video, and Flash audio

and video.

Form Contains buttons for creating forms and inserting form elements, such as search, month, and password.

jQuery Mobile Contains buttons for building sites that use jQuery Mobile.

jQuery UI Lets you insert jQuery UI elements such as accordion, sliders, and buttons.

Te mp l at es Lets you save the document as a template and mark specific regiions as editable, optional, repeating, or

editable optional regions.

Favo rites Lets you group and organize the Insert panel buttons you use the most in one common place.

Files panel overview

Use the Files panel to view and manage the files on your Dreamweaver site.

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When you view sites, files, or folders in the Files panel, you can change the size of the viewing area, and expand or collapse the Files panel. When the Files panel is collapsed, it displays the contents of the local site, the remote site, the testing server, or the SVN repository as a list of files. When expanded, it displays the local site and either the remote site, the testing server, or the SVN repository.

For Dreamweaver sites, you can also customize the Files panel by changing the view—either your local or remote site— that appears by default in the collapsed panel.

The folders in the Files panel are displayed in different colors based on the view - Local, Remote, or Testing.

Local view

Remote Server view

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Test i n g S er ve r v ie w

Repository view

The Files panel interacts with the server at regular intervals to update its content. An error message is displayed when you try to perform an action in the Files panel when it is running these auto-updates. To disable auto-updates, open the Files panel options menu, and deselect Auto-Update in the View menu.

To update the contents of the panel manually, use the Refresh button in the panel. The current check-out status of files, however, is updated only when auto-updates are enabled.

CSS Designer

CSS Designer panel (Windows > CSS Designer) is a CSS Property Inspector that lets you 'visually' create CSS styles, files, and set properties, along with media queries.

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Contents

Chapter 1: What's new

New features summary

Device preview

Visual Media Queries

Support for linting code

Support for Emmet

Preview in Code view

New code snippets

Bootstrap integration

Support for editing tables in Live view

New menus in Live view

Support for jQuery UI elements in Live view

DOM panel

SVG code hints in HTML documents

Technology Previews

Custom preview in Code view using showPreview API

Code folding

Extract enhancements

Extract for devices

Support for % units

Enhancements to Live view editing

Nested Insert in Live View

Editing Selectors directly in Element Display

Coding toolbar changes

CSS Designer improvements

All and Current modes

Code hints

Color coding for media queries

Other changes

Testing server workflow changes

Changes in server setup

Automatic pushing of dynamic files

Changes to Business Catalyst workflow

Other changes

Chapter 2: Workspace and workflow

Dreamweaver workflow and workspace

Dreamweaver workflow overview

Workspace layout overview

Workspace elements overview

Document window overview

Document toolbar overview

Standard toolbar overview

Browser Navigation toolbar overview

Coding toolbar overview

Status bar overview

Property inspector overview

Insert panel overview

Files panel overview

CSS Designer