Select and edit assets, Reuse assets in another site – Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2014 v.13 User Manual
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Apply a URL to an image or text using the Assets panel
1. Select the text or image.
2. In the Assets panel, select the URLs category
in either the Sites or Favorites view, depending on where the URL is stored.
Note: URLs for your site’s files are stored in the Sites view by default. The Favorites view holds URLs that you have added yourself.
3. Select the URL.
4. Do one of the following:
Drag the URL from the panel to the selection in the Design view.
Select the URL, then click Insert.
Select and edit assets
The Assets panel allows you to select multiple assets at once. It also provides a quick way to begin editing assets.
Select multiple assets
1. In the Assets panel, select an asset.
2. Select the other assets in one of the following ways:
Shift-click to select a consecutive series of assets.
Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) to add an individual asset to the selection (whether or not it’s adjacent to the
existing selection). Control-click or Command-click a selected asset to deselect it.
Edit an asset
When you edit an asset in the Assets panel, the behavior varies according to the asset type. For some assets, such as images, you use an
external editor, which opens automatically if you have defined an editor for that asset type. You can edit colors and URLs in the Favorites list only.
When you edit templates and library items, you make the changes within Dreamweaver.
1. In the Assets panel, do one of the following:
Double-click the asset.
Select the asset, then click the Edit button
.
Note: If the asset must be edited in an external editor and one doesn’t open automatically, select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or
Dreamweaver > Preferences (Macintosh), select the File Types/Editors category, and make sure you have defined an external editor for
that asset type.
2. Make your changes.
3. When you finish, do one of the following:
If the asset is file-based (anything other than a color or URL), save it (in the editor you used), and close it.
If the asset is a URL, click OK in the Edit URL dialog box.
Note: If the asset is a color, the color picker closes automatically after you pick a color. To dismiss the color picker without picking a
color, press Esc.
Reuse assets in another site
The Assets panel shows all the assets (of recognized types) in your current site. To use an asset from the current site in another site, you must
copy it to the other site. You can copy an individual asset, a set of individual assets, or an entire Favorites folder at once.
You may need to locate the file in the Files panel that corresponds to an asset in the Assets panel before you transfer the asset to or from your
remote site.
Note: The Files panel might show a different site from the one that the Assets panel shows. This is because the Assets panel is associated with
the active document.
Locate an asset file in the Files panel
1. In the Assets panel, select the category of the asset you want to find.
2. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the asset’s name or icon in the Assets panel, then select Locate In Site from the context
menu.
Note: Locate In Site is unavailable for colors and URLs, which do not correspond to files in the site.
The Files panel opens, with the asset file selected. The Locate In Site command locates the file corresponding to the asset itself; it does not
locate files that use that asset.
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