Operation Manual

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USING DREAMWEAVER

Adding content to pages

Last updated 3/28/2012

Use the color picker

In Dreamweaver, many of the dialog boxes, as well as the Property inspector for many page elements, contain a color

box, which opens a color picker. Use the color picker to select a color for a page element. You can also set the default

text color for your page elements.

1 Click a color box in any dialog box or in the Property inspector.

The color picker appears.

2 Do one of the following:

• Use the eyedropper to select a color swatch from the palette. All colors in the Color Cubes (default) and Continuous

Tone palettes are web-safe; other palettes are not.

• Use the eyedropper to pick up a color from anywhere on your screen—even outside the Dreamweaver windows.

To pick up a color from the desktop or another application, press and hold the mouse button; this allows the

eyedropper to retain focus, and select a color outside of Dreamweaver. If you click the desktop or another

application, Dreamweaver picks up the color where you clicked. However, if you switch to another application, you

may need to click a Dreamweaver window to continue working in Dreamweaver.

• To expand your color selection, use the pop-up menu at the upper-right corner of the color picker. You can select

Color Cubes, Continuous Tone, Windows OS, Mac

OS, and Grayscale.

Note: The Color Cubes and Continuous Tone palettes are web-safe, whereas Windows OS, Mac OS and Grayscale are not.

• To clear the current color without choosing a different color, click the Default Color button .

• To open the system color picker, click the Color Wheel button .

Zoom in and out

Dreamweaver lets you increase the magnification (zoom in) in the Document window so that you can check the pixel

accuracy of graphics, select small items more easily, design pages with small text, design large pages, and so on.

Note: The zooming tools are only available in Design view.