Operation Manual
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USING DREAMWEAVER
Managing assets and libraries
Last updated 3/28/2012
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.
More Help topics
“Start an external editor for media files” on page 245
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.