Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2015 User Manual
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Legal notices
- 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
- Enhancements to Live view editing
- Coding toolbar changes
- CSS Designer improvements
- Testing server workflow changes
- Changes to Business Catalyst workflow
- Other changes
- New features summary
- 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
- Visual guides overview
- Customizing the Dreamweaver workspace
- Manage windows and panels
- Save and switch workspaces
- Display tabbed documents (Dreamweaver Macintosh)
- Turn on color icons
- Hide and display the Dreamweaver Welcome screen
- About customizing Dreamweaver in multiuser systems
- Set General preferences for Dreamweaver
- Set Fonts preferences for documents in Dreamweaver
- Customize Dreamweaver highlighting colors
- Restore default preferences
- Working in the Document window
- Using toolbars, inspectors, and context menus
- Use the Insert panel
- Hide or show the Insert panel
- Show the buttons in a particular category
- Display the pop-up menu for a button
- Insert an object
- Bypass the object-insertion dialog box and insert an empty placeholder object
- Modify preferences for the Insert panel
- Add, delete, or manage items in the Favorites category of the Insert panel
- Insert objects using buttons in the Favorites category
- Display the Insert panel as a horizontal Insert bar
- Return the horizontal Insert bar to a panel group
- Show horizontal Insert bar categories as tabs
- Show horizontal Insert bar categories as a menu
- CSS Designer panel
- DOM panel
- Search files based on filename or content | Mac OS
- Zoom in and out
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Optimizing the workspace for visual development
- CEF integration
- Dreamweaver workflow and workspace
- Chapter 3: Site management
- About Dreamweaver sites
- About dynamic sites
- Set up a local version of your site
- Connect to a remote server
- Manage Sites dialog box options
- Set up a testing server
- Version Control and Advanced settings
- Import and export Dreamweaver site settings
- Edit an existing remote website
- Set site preferences for transferring files
- Chapter 4: File management
- Creating and opening documents
- About creating Dreamweaver documents
- Dreamweaver file types
- Create a layout using a blank page
- Create a blank template
- Create a page based on an existing template
- Create a page based on a Dreamweaver sample file
- Create other kinds of pages
- Save and revert documents
- Set default document type and encoding
- Converting HTML5 to an older doctype
- Set the default file extension of new HTML documents
- Open and edit existing documents
- Open Related Files
- Open Dynamically-Related Files
- Clean up Microsoft Word HTML files
- Managing files and folders
- About managing files and folders
- Using the Files panel
- View files and folders
- Open or close the Files panel
- Search files in the files panel (Mac OS, Creative Cloud users only)
- Expand or collapse the Files panel (Dreamweaver sites only)
- Change the size of the view area in the expanded Files panel
- Change the site view in Files panel (Dreamweaver sites only)
- View files outside of a Dreamweaver site
- Work with files in the Files panel
- Find files in your Dreamweaver site
- Find an open file in your site
- Locate and select checked out files in a Dreamweaver site
- Find a selected file in your local or remote site
- Locate and select files that are newer in the local site than in the remote site
- Locate and select files that are newer in the remote site than in the local site
- Find recently modified files in your site
- Identify and delete unused files
- Access sites, a server, and local drives
- Customize the file and folder details displayed in the expanded Files panel
- Getting and putting files to and from your server
- Checking in and checking out files
- About the Check In/Check Out system
- Set up the Check In/Check Out system
- Check files into and out of a remote folder
- Use WebDAV to check in and check out files
- Use Subversion (SVN) to get and check in files
- Set up an SVN connection
- Get the latest versions of files
- Commit files
- Update status of files or folders in the repository
- Update status of local file or folders
- View revisions for a file
- Lock and unlock files
- Add a new file to the repository
- Move, copy, delete, or revert files
- Resolve conflicting files
- Go offline
- Clean up a local SVN site
- About moving files and folders in Subversion-controlled sites
- Synchronizing files
- Comparing files for differences
- Cloaking files and folders in your Dreamweaver site
- Storing file information in Design Notes
- Testing your Dreamweaver site
- Creating and opening documents
- Chapter 5: Layout and design
- Using visual aids for layout
- Using Frames
- How frames and framesets work
- Deciding whether to use frames
- Nested framesets
- Work with framesets in the Document window
- Create frames and framesets
- Select frames and framesets
- Open a document in a frame
- Save frame and frameset files
- View and set frame properties and attributes
- View and set frameset properties
- Control frame content with links
- Provide content for browsers without frame support
- Using JavaScript behaviors with frames
- Laying out pages with CSS
- Working with Bootstrap files
- Visual Media Queries
- Responsive design using fluid grid layouts
- Presenting content with tables
- About tables
- Table formatting precedence in HTML
- About splitting and merging table cells
- Insert a table and add content
- Import and export tabular data
- Select table elements
- Set table properties
- Set cell, row, or column properties
- Use Expanded Tables mode for easier table editing
- Format tables and cells
- Resizing tables, columns, and rows
- Resize a table
- Change a column’s width and keep the overall table width
- Change a column’s width and maintain the size of the other columns
- Change a row’s height visually
- Make column widths in code consistent with visual widths
- Clear all set widths or heights in a table
- Clear a column’s set width
- Enable or disable table and column widths and menus
- Add and remove rows and columns
- Split and merge cells
- Copy, paste, and delete cells
- Nest tables
- Sort tables
- Using jQuery UI widgets in Dreamweaver
- Using jQuery effects in Dreamweaver
- Colors
- Chapter 6: CSS
- Understanding Cascading Style Sheets
- CSS Designer panel
- Set CSS Styles preferences
- Create a CSS rule
- Set CSS properties
- Edit a CSS rule
- Add a property to a CSS rule
- Apply, remove, or rename CSS class styles
- Move/export CSS rules
- Convert inline CSS to a CSS rule
- Link to an external CSS style sheet
- Edit a CSS style sheet
- Format CSS code
- Disable/Enable CSS
- Inspect CSS in Live view
- Check for cross-browser CSS rendering issues
- Run a browser compatibility check
- Select the element affected by a found issue
- Jump to the next or previous found issue in the code
- Select browsers for Dreamweaver to check against
- Exclude an issue from the browser compatibility check
- Edit the Ignored Issues list
- Save a browser compatibility check report
- View a browser compatibility check report in a browser
- Open the Adobe CSS Advisor website
- Use Design-Time style sheets
- Working with div tags
- Insert and edit div tags
- CSS layout blocks
- Working with AP elements
- About AP elements in Dreamweaver
- HTML code for AP Div elements
- Insert an AP Div
- Draw a single AP Div or multiple AP Divs consecutively
- Insert an AP Div at a particular place in the document
- Place the insertion point in an AP Div
- Show AP Div borders
- Hide AP Div borders
- Work with nested AP Divs
- Draw a nested AP Div
- Insert a nested AP Div
- Nest AP Divs automatically when you draw an AP Div inside another AP Div
- View or set AP element preferences
- View or set properties for a single AP element
- View or set properties for multiple AP elements
- Select multiple AP elements
- View and set properties for multiple AP elements
- AP Elements panel overview
- Select AP elements
- Select an AP element in the AP elements panel
- Select an AP element in the Document window
- Select multiple AP elements
- Change the stacking order of AP elements
- Change the stacking order of AP elements using the AP Elements panel
- Change the stacking order of AP elements using the Property inspector
- Show and hide AP elements
- Change AP element visibility
- Change the visibility of all AP elements at once
- Resize AP elements
- Resize an AP element
- Resize multiple AP elements at once
- Move AP elements
- Align AP elements
- Converting AP elements to tables
- Convert between AP elements and tables
- Convert AP elements to a table
- Convert tables to AP Divs
- Prevent AP element overlaps
- Apply gradients to background
- CSS3 transition effects
- Use Dreamweaver sample style sheets
- The CSS Styles panel
- Chapter 7: Page content and assets
- Set page properties
- Set CSS link properties for an entire page
- Set CSS heading properties for an entire page
- Set title and encoding properties for a page
- Use a tracing image to design apage
- Understanding document encoding
- Select and view elements in the Document window
- Zoom in and out
- Set download time and size preferences
- Working with text
- Arabic and Hebrew text
- Edit in Live View
- Element Display
- Quick Property Inspector
- Live View Property Inspector
- Edit HTML attributes
- Edit text directly in Live View
- Insert elements directly in Live View
- Marquee selection
- Selection and dragging-and-dropping of elements
- Keyboard navigation in Live View
- Disable editing in Live View
- Unsupported scenarios
- DOM panel
- Set text properties in the Property inspector
- Spell check a web page
- Import tabular data
- Import Microsoft Office documents (Windows only)
- Create a link to a Word or Excel document
- Use HTML Formatting
- Use horizontal rules
- Modify font combinations
- Add Edge Web Fonts to the Font list
- Insert dates
- Working with assets
- Creating and managing a list of favorite assets
- Insert and edit images
- Adding media objects
- Insert and edit media objects
- Start an external editor for media files
- Specify the editor to start from Dreamweaver
- Use Design Notes with media objects
- Insert Shockwave movies
- Add video (non-FLV)
- Insert plug-in content
- Troubleshooting plug-ins
- Insert an ActiveX control
- Insert a Java applet
- Using behaviors to control media
- Use parameters to control media objects
- Adding video
- Insert HTML5 video
- Inserting SWF files
- Adding web widgets
- Adding Sound
- Insert HTML5 audio
- Automating tasks
- About assets and libraries
- Working with library items
- Working with Photoshop and Dreamweaver
- About Photoshop integration
- About Smart Objects and Photoshop-Dreamweaver workflows
- Create a Smart Object
- Update a Smart Object
- Update multiple Smart Objects
- Resize a Smart Object
- Edit a Smart Object’s original Photoshop file
- Smart Object states
- Copy and paste a selection from Photoshop
- Edit pasted images
- Setting Image Optimization dialog box options
- Chapter 8: Linking and navigation
- About linking and navigation
- Linking
- Linking files and documents
- Attaching JavaScript behaviors to links
- Link to documents using the Property inspector
- Link to documents using the Point-To-File icon
- Add a link using the Hyperlink command
- Set the relative path of new links
- Link to a specific place in a document
- Create an e-mail link
- Create null and script links
- Update links automatically
- Change a link sitewide
- Test links in Dreamweaver
- Jump menus
- Navigation bars
- Image maps
- Troubleshooting links
- Chapter 9: Previewing
- Chapter 10: Coding
- General information about coding in Dreamweaver
- Setting up your coding environment
- Setting coding preferences
- Writing and editing code
- Code hints
- Site-specific code hints
- Insert code using the Coding toolbar
- Insert code with the Insert panel
- Insert code using Emmet
- Insert tags with the Tag Chooser
- Insert HTML comments
- Copy and paste code
- Preview images and colors in Code view
- Analyze code
- Edit tags with Tag editors
- Edit code with the Coding context menu
- Edit a server-language tag with the Property inspector
- Indent code blocks
- Navigate to related code
- Go to a JavaScript or VBScript function
- Extract JavaScript
- Work with code snippets
- Search for tags, attributes, or text in code
- Save and recall search patterns
- Use language-reference material
- Print code
- Video tutorial
- Collapsing code
- Lint code
- Optimize code
- Editing code in Design view
- About editing code in Design view
- Selecting child tags in Design view
- Edit code with the Property inspector
- Edit CFML with the Property inspector
- Change attributes with the Tag inspector
- Quick Tag Editor overview
- Edit code with the Quick Tag Editor
- Use the hints menu in the Quick Tag Editor
- Edit code with the tag selector
- Write and edit scripts in Design view
- Edit scripts on the page by using the Property inspector
- Using JavaScript behaviors
- Working with head content for pages
- Working with server-side includes
- Managing tag libraries
- Importing custom tags into Dreamweaver
- Chapter 11: Javascript
- Using JavaScript behaviors (general instructions)
- Applying built-in JavaScript behaviors
- Using built-in behaviors
- Apply the Call JavaScript behavior
- Apply the Change Property behavior
- Apply the Check Browser behavior
- Apply the Check Plugin behavior
- Apply the Control Shockwave or SWF behavior
- Apply the Drag AP Element behavior
- Gathering information about the draggable AP element
- Apply the Go To URL behavior
- Apply the Jump Menu behavior
- Apply the Jump Menu Go behavior
- Apply the Open Browser Window behavior
- Apply the Play Sound behavior
- Apply the Popup Message behavior
- Apply the Preload Images behavior
- Apply the Set Nav Bar Image behavior
- Apply the Set Text Of Frame behavior
- Apply the Set Text Of Container behavior
- Apply the Set Text Of Status Bar behavior
- Apply the Set Text Of Text Field behavior
- Apply the Show-Hide Elements behavior
- Apply the Show Pop-Up Menu behavior
- Add, remove, and rearrange pop-up menu items
- Format a pop-up menu
- Position a pop-up menu in a document
- Modify a pop-up menu
- Apply the Swap Image behavior
- Apply the Validate Form behavior
- Chapter 12: Cross-product
- Add-Ons
- Cross-application integration
- Working with Fireworks and Dreamweaver
- Insert a Fireworks image
- Edit a Fireworks image or table from Dreamweaver
- Optimize a Fireworks image from Dreamweaver
- Use Fireworks to modify Dreamweaver image placeholders
- About Fireworks pop-up menus
- Edit Fireworks pop-up menus in Dreamweaver
- Edit a pop-up menu created in Fireworks MX 2004 or earlier
- Specify launch-and-edit preferences for Fireworks source files
- Insert Fireworks HTML code in a Dreamweaver document
- Paste Fireworks HTML code into Dreamweaver
- Update Fireworks HTML code placed in Dreamweaver
- Create a web photo album
- Working with Flash and Dreamweaver
- Working with Adobe Bridgeand Dreamweaver
- Working with Device Central and Dreamweaver
- Working with ConnectNow and Dreamweaver
- AIR Extension for Dreamweaver
- Installing the AIR Extension for Dreamweaver
- Creating an AIR application in Dreamweaver
- Signing an application with a digital certificate
- Editing associated AIR file types
- Editing AIR application settings
- Previewing a web page in an AIR application
- Using AIR code hinting and code coloring
- Accessing the Adobe AIR documentation
- Using Dreamweaver with Adobe Online services
- BrowserLab
- Business Catalyst InContext Editing
- Business Catalyst InContext Editing
- Create an InContext Editing editable region
- Create an InContext Editing repeating region
- Delete a region
- Specify CSS classes for formatting
- InContext Editing Error messages
- Cannot apply InContext Editing to tags containing script tags or server-side block(s) of code
- Current selection cannot be transformed or wrapped with a DIV tag because the parent node doesn't allow DIV as child tag
- Current selection already contains or is inside of an Editable Region. Nested Editable Regions are not allowed.
- Editable Regions should not contain Repeating Regions or Repeating Regions Groups
- Repeating Regions should not be inside Editable Regions or contain Repeating Regions Groups
- Current selection already contains or is inside of a Repeating Region. Nested Repeating Regions are not allowed.
- Selection must contain exactly one Dreamweaver template editable/repeating region, or be inside any Dreamweaver template editable region
- Only DIV tags can have both Editable Region and Repeating Region functionality applied at the same time
- Dreamweaver detected that a Repeating Regions Group tag precedes the Repeating Region
- Extract in Dreamweaver CC
- Dreamweaver-Business Catalyst integration
- Import Microsoft Office documents (Windows only)
- Chapter 13: Templates
- About Dreamweaver templates
- Recognizing templates and template-based documents
- Creating a Dreamweaver template
- Creating editable regions in templates
- Creating repeating regions in templates
- Using optional regions in templates
- Defining editable tag attributes in templates
- Creating a nested template
- Editing, updating, and deleting templates
- Exporting and importing template content
- Applying or removing a template from an existing document
- Editing content in a template-based document
- Template syntax
- Setting authoring preferences for templates
- Chapter 14: Mobile and multiscreen
- Chapter 15: XML
- About XML and XSLT
- Performing XSL transformationson the server
- Workflow for performing server-side XSL transformations
- Create an XSLT page
- Convert HTML pages to XSLT pages
- Attach XML data sources
- Display XML data in XSLT pages
- Display repeating XML elements
- Insert XSLT fragments in dynamic pages
- Delete XSLT fragments from dynamic pages
- Edit XSL Transformation server behaviors
- Create a dynamic link
- Applying styles to XSLT fragments
- Use parameters with XSL transformations
- Create and edit conditional XSLT regions
- Insert XSL comments
- Use the XPath Expression Builder to add expressions for XML data
- Performing XSL transformationson the client
- Missing character entities for XSLT
- Chapter 16: Dynamic sites, pages and web forms
- Understanding web applications
- Set up your computer for application development
- What you need to build web applications
- Web server basics
- Choosing a web server
- Choosing an application server
- Choosing a database
- Setting up a ColdFusion development environment
- Setting up a PHP development environment
- Setting up an ASP development environment
- Creating a root folder for the application
- About defining a Dreamweaver site
- Database connections for ColdFusion developers
- Database connections for ASP developers
- Database connections for PHP developers
- Troubleshooting database connections
- Troubleshooting permissions problems
- Troubleshooting Microsoft error messages
- [Reference]80004005—Data source name not found and no default driver specified]
- [Reference]80004005—Couldn’t use ‘(unknown)’; file already in use]
- [Reference]80004005—Logon Failed()]
- [Reference]80004005—Operation must use an updateable query]
- [Reference]80040e07—Data type mismatch in criteria expression]
- [Reference]80040e10—Too few parameters]
- [Reference]80040e10—COUNT field incorrect]
- [Reference]80040e14—Syntax error in INSERT INTO statement]
- [Reference]80040e21—ODBC error on Insert or Update]
- [Reference]800a0bcd—Either BOF or EOF is true]
- Troubleshooting MySQL error messages
- Removing connection scripts
- Designing dynamic pages
- Dynamic content sources overview
- Defining sources of dynamic content
- Define a recordset without writing SQL
- Define an advanced recordset by writing SQL
- Create SQL queries using the Database Items tree
- Define URL parameters
- Define form parameters
- Define session variables
- Define application variables for ASP and ColdFusion
- Use a variable as a data source for a ColdFusion recordset
- Define server variables
- Cache content sources
- Change or delete content sources
- Copy a recordset from one page to another page
- Adding dynamic content to pages
- Changing dynamic content
- Displaying database records
- About database records
- Server behaviors and formatting elements
- Applying typographic and page layout elements to dynamic data
- Navigating database recordset results
- Create a recordset navigation bar
- Custom recordset navigation bars
- Navigation bar design tasks
- Display and hide regions based on recordset results
- Display multiple recordset results
- Create a dynamic table
- Create record counters
- Use predefined data formats
- Viewing live data
- Adding custom server behaviors
- About building forms
- Using forms to collect information from users
- Building ColdFusion forms
- About ColdFusion forms
- Enable the ColdFusion enhancements
- Create ColdFusion forms
- Insert ColdFusion form controls
- Insert ColdFusion text fields
- Insert ColdFusion hidden fields
- Insert ColdFusion text areas
- Insert ColdFusion buttons
- Insert ColdFusion check boxes
- Insert ColdFusion radio buttons
- Insert ColdFusion select boxes
- Insert ColdFusion image fields
- Insert ColdFusion file fields
- Insert ColdFusion date fields
- Modify ColdFusion form controls
- Validate ColdFusion form data
- Creating web forms
- About web forms
- Form objects
- Create an HTML form
- About dynamic form objects
- Insert or change a dynamic HTML form menu
- Make existing HTML form menus dynamic
- Display dynamic content in HTML text fields
- Set the Dynamic Text Field dialog box options
- Dynamically preselect an HTML check box
- Dynamically preselect an HTML radio button
- Validate HTML form data
- Attach JavaScript behaviors to HTML form objects
- Attach custom scripts to HTML form buttons
- Create accessible HTML forms
- Enhanced HTML5 support for form elements
- Chapter 17: Building applications visually
- Building master and detail pages
- Building search and results pages
- Building a record insert page
- Building an update record page
- Building a delete record page
- Building pages with advanced data manipulation objects (ColdFusion, ASP)
- Building a registration page
- Building a login page
- Building a page that only authorized users can access
- Securing a folder in your application (ColdFusion)
- Using ColdFusion components
- Chapter 18: Accessibility
- Chapter 19: Dreamweaver and Creative Cloud
- Chapter 20: System Requirements