User Guide

CSS functions 421
■ The styleName argument is the name of a CSS style.
■ The classOrID argument, which is optional, is the attribute with which the style should
be applied (either
"class" or "id"). If the elementNode argument is a null value or an
empty string and no tag exactly surrounds the selection, the style is applied using
SPAN
tags. If the selection is an insertion point, Dreamweaver uses heuristics to determine to
which tag the style should be applied.
■ The bForceNesting argument, which is optional, is a Boolean value, which indicates
whether nesting is allowed. If the
bForceNesting flag is specified, Dreamweaver inserts a
new
SPAN tag instead of trying to modify the existing tags in the document. This
argument defaults to a
false value if it is not specified.
Returns
Nothing.
Example
The following code applies the red style to the selection, either by surrounding the selection
with
SPAN tags or by applying a CLASS attribute to the tag that surrounds the selection:
var theDOM = dreamweaver.getDocumentDOM('document');
theDOM.applyCSSStyle('','red');
dom.getElementView()
Availability
Dreamweaver 8.
Description
This function gets the Element view for the currently selected element in the document. If the
currently selected element is normal, the
getElementView() function looks for the selected
element’s first ancestor that is either full or hidden.
Arguments
None.
Returns
A string that indicates the status of the selected element. Values include:
■ "hidden", which indicates that the element has CSS properties that may cause content to
be partially or completely hidden in Design view. Supported CSS properties include:
■ overflow: hidden, scroll, or auto
■ display: none
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