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Aligning Hotspots

Dreamweaver has built-in alignment tools that you can use to align the hotspots in your image map. First, you need to select the hotspots you want to align. To select all of the hotspots in an image map, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+A in Windows or Command+A on the Macintosh. Or, you can Shift-click hotspots to add them to the selection. You can tell when hotspots are selected because you can see the resize handles.

Sometimes it is difficult to finely align hotspots with your mouse. You can use the arrow keys to move a hotspot or multiple hotspots one pixel at a time.

The Align submenu under the Modify menu contains commands to align hotspots, as shown in Figure 8.6. You can align multiple hotspots on the left, right, top, ...