Adobe Dreamweaver API Reference CS5 - Manual (Page 384)

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Last updated 8/27/2013
Chapter 17: Design
The Design functions in Adobe® Dreamweaver® perform operations related to designing the appearance of a
document. The operations include functions that enable you to perform the following:
• Apply a specified cascading style sheet (CSS) style
• Split a selected frame vertically, or horizontally
• Align selected layers or hotspots
• Play a selected plug-in item
• Create a layout cell
• Manipulate table rows or column
CSS layout functions
CSS functions handle applying, removing, creating, and deleting CSS styles. Methods of the
dreamweaver.cssRuleTracker object either control or act on the selection in the CSS rule tracker panel of the
Selection inspector. Methods of the dreamweaver.cssStylePalette object either control or act on the selection in
the Styles panel, not in the current document.
dom.applyLayout()
Availability
Dreamweaver CS3.
Description
Applies a CSS-based layout to the document. The document body must be empty, and the document must be a page
where you can apply a layout. That is:
• A page that is HTML based, such as HTML, XHTML, ColdFusion, PHP, and so on, (but not CSS, XML, JavaScript,
and so on).
• A page that is not a frameset or a template instance (although a template itself is fine).
Arguments
layout-index, CSS, cssFileName, preventOverwrite
• layout-index is an integer, zero-based index that specifies the layout to use. This is an index to the list of layouts,
which is used to return the
layoutNames and layoutDescriptions in the corresponding functions.
• CSS specifies where to put the CSS layout. Possible values are:
• “ embed " - embed the CSS in the document head.
• “ link " - link to cssFileName.
• “ create_and_link " - write CSS in cssFileName and link to that.
• “ import "- import cssFileName .