Beginning SharePoint® Designer 2010

Chapter 2. Editing Pages

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER

• How to show and hide task panes and ribbon tabs

• About page editing modes

• About Code view features like IntelliSense and snippets

• How to incorporate SharePoint and other elements on a page

As Chapter 1 discusses, SharePoint Designer 2010 is about far more than editing pages. However, page layout and design is still an important part of the product. Indeed, many of the functions you will learn about in later chapters also rely on the page editor.

WHAT'S IN A "PAGE"?

Chapter 1 briefly introduced you to the broad array of artifacts you can work with in SharePoint Designer 2010. Some of them, such as site pages and master pages, are truly pages and labeled as such. Other files, such as layouts and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), are not; however, you will still use the "page" editor to create and make changes to these files. Some SharePoint elements, such as data view web parts, can only be effectively modified in SharePoint Designer while they are placed on a page.

Although this chapter touches on some of these items, it is more about the tools available for working on all file types rather than working with particular artifacts. Such artifacts are covered in detail in their respective chapters. For example, this chapter discusses the table editing tools. Chapters 6-8 assume you know how to work with these tools in the discussion of how to use them to modify data views.

The Page Editor in SharePoint Designer is the workspace where you ...