Chapter 2. Controlling the Dreamweaver Document Window

You will spend most of your time in Dreamweaver working in the Document window. The Document window is where you enter (or paste copied) text, embed images, design your page, apply formatting, and even add animation, video, interactive elements, and forms. In short, most of the features covered in the rest of this book are available through the Document window. The techniques in this chapter will explain in more detail how to navigate in and take advantage of the different editing and viewing options in the Document window.

You can work on and edit pages in three modes in the Document window. Code view is for writing HTML, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by hand. Design view is ...

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