Operation Manual

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2. Select Insert > Image Objects > Image Placeholder.
3. For Name (Optional), enter text you want to appear as a label for the image placeholder. Leave the text box blank if you do
not want a label to appear. The name must begin with a letter and can contain only letters and numbers; spaces and high
ASCII characters are not allowed.
4. For Width and Height (Required), type a number to set the image size in pixels.
5. For Color (Optional), do one of the following to apply a color:
Use the color picker to select a color.
Enter the color’s hexadecimal value (for example, #FF0000).
Enter a web-safe color name (for example, red).
6. For Alternate Text (Optional), enter text to describe the image for viewers using a text-only browser.
An image tag is automatically inserted into the HTML code containing an empty src attribute.
7. Click OK.
The placeholder’s color, size attributes, and label appear as follows:
When viewed in a browser, the label and size text do not appear.
Replace an image placeholder
An image placeholder does not display an image in a browser. Before you publish your site you should replace any image placeholders you’ve
added with web-friendly image files, such as GIFs or JPEGs.
If you have Fireworks, you can create a new graphic from the Dreamweaver image placeholder. The new image is set to the same size as the
placeholder image. You can edit the image, then replace it in Dreamweaver.
1. In the Document window, do one of the following:
Double-click the image placeholder.
Click the image placeholder to select it; then in the Property inspector (Window > Properties), click the folder icon next to
the Src text box.
2. In the Image Source dialog box, navigate to the image you want to replace the image placeholder with and click OK.
Set image placeholder properties
To set properties for an image placeholder, select the placeholder in the Document window; then select Window > Properties to display the
Property inspector. To see all properties, click the expander arrow in the lower-right corner.
Use the Property inspector to set a name, width, height, image source, alternate text description, alignment and color for a placeholder image.
In the placeholder Property inspector, the gray text box and the Align text box are disabled. You can set these properties in the image Property
inspector when you replace the placeholder with an image.
Set any of the following options:
Set the width and height of the image placeholder, in pixels.
Specifies the source file for the image. For a placeholder image, this text box is empty. Click the Browse button to select a
replacement image for the placeholder graphic.
Specifies a hyperlink for the image placeholder. Drag the Point-to-File icon to a file in the Files panel, click the folder icon
to browse to a document on your site, or manually type the URL.
Specifies alternative text that appears in place of the image for text-only browsers or for browsers that have been set to
download images manually. For visually impaired users who use speech synthesizers with text-only browsers, the text is
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