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USING DREAMWEAVER
Adding content to pages
Last updated 3/28/2012
Access Key Enter a keyboard equivalent (one letter) in the text box to select the form object in the browser. This lets a
visitor to the site use the Control key (Windows) with the Access Key to access the object. For example, if you enter B
as the Access Key, use Control+B to select the object in the browser.
Tab Index Enter a number for the tab order of the form object. Setting a tab order is useful when you have other links
and form objects on the page and need the user to tab through them in a specific order. If you set tab order for one
object, be sure to set the tab order for all of them.
5 Click OK to insert the media object.
Note: If you click Cancel, a media object placeholder appears in the document, but Dreamweaver does not associate
accessibility tags or attributes with it.
To specify a source file, or to set dimensions and other parameters and attributes, use the Property inspector for each
object. You can edit accessibility attributes for an object.
More Help topics
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Start an external editor for media files
You can start an external editor from Dreamweaver to edit most media files. You can also specify the editor you want
Dreamweaver to start to edit the file.
1 Make sure the media file type is associated to an editor on your system.
To find out what editor is associated with the file type, select Edit > Preferences in Dreamweaver and select File
Types/Editors from the Category list. Click the file’s extension in the Extensions column to view the associated editor
or editors in the Editors column. You can change the editor associated to a file type.
2 Double-click the media file in the Files panel to open it in the external editor.
The editor that starts when you double-click the file in the Files panel is called the primary editor. If you double-click
an image file, for example, Dreamweaver opens the file in the primary external image editor such as Adobe Fireworks.
3 If you don’t want to use the primary external editor to edit the file, you can use another editor on your system to
edit the file by doing one of the following:
In the Files panel, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the filename and select Open With from the
context menu.
In Design view, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the media element within the current page,
and select Edit With from the context menu.
Specify the editor to start from Dreamweaver
You can specify the editor you want Dreamweaver to use for editing a file type, and add or delete file types that
Dreamweaver recognizes.
Explicitly specify which external editors should be started for a given file type
1 Select Edit > Preferences and select File Types/Editors from the Category list.
Filename extensions, such as .gif, .wav, and .mpg, are listed on the left under Extensions. Associated editors for a
selected extension are listed on the right under Editors.