User Guide

Exporting from Fireworks 257

Copying and pasting HTML from an exported Fireworks file

You can open exported Fireworks HTML in an HTML editor and copy and paste sections of

code into another HTML file.

To copy code from an exported Fireworks file and paste it into another HTML document:

1 Open the Fireworks HTML file you exported in an HTML editor.

2 Highlight the necessary code and copy it to the Clipboard.

3 Open an existing HTML document or create a new one.

4 Paste the code from the Clipboard at the desired location in the new HTML file. You do not

have to copy the <HTML> and <BODY> tags, because these should already be included in the

destination HTML document.

If you chose Include HTML Comments in the HTML Setup dialog box in Fireworks, follow

the instructions in the comments to copy and paste the code into the appropriate location.

5 If your Fireworks document contains interactive elements, you’ll need to copy the JavaScript

code as well.

JavaScript code is surrounded by

<SCRIPT> tags and is located in the <HEAD> section of the

document. Copy and paste the entire

<SCRIPT> section, unless your destination document

already has a

<SCRIPT> section. In this case you should copy and paste only the contents of the

<SCRIPT> section into the existing <SCRIPT> section, being careful not to overwrite the

contents of the existing section. Also ensure there are no duplicate JavaScript functions in the

<SCRIPT> section after you paste the code.

Updating exported HTML

The Update HTML command allows you to make changes to a Fireworks HTML document

you’ve previously exported. This feature is useful if you want to update only a portion of

a document.

Note: Update HTML works differently with Macromedia Dreamweaver documents than it does with

other HTML documents. For more information, see “Working with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX

2004” in Working with Other Applications on the Fireworks Support Center at

www.macromedia.com/support/fireworks/.

When updating Fireworks HTML, you can choose to replace just the images that changed, or

overwrite all code and images. If you choose to replace only the images that changed, any changes

you made to the HTML file outside of Fireworks are preserved.

Note: For considerable changes to document layout, make your changes in Fireworks and re-export

the HTML file.