Datasheet

In the previous section you added a table within the development area in an effort to see code that

was produced by Expression Web. But visually, how would you be able to select the

<td> tag? The

answer lies with the Quick Tag Editor. To select the

<td> tag from the Quick Tag Editor, first place

your cursor within the table. Immediately, the Quick Tag Selector changes to display the hierarchal

tag list

<body><table><tr><td>. Finally, select the <td> tag within the Quick Tag Selector. You’ll

quickly notice that the inner portion of the table becomes highlighted.

Although the benefits of this approach don’t become immediately visible, they will become evident as

your Web pages grow in complexity. Assume for a moment that you were working with a complex

table-based structure where tables within your Web pages happen to be nested within each other. The

Quick Tag Selector would be particularly handy in a situation such as this because you could easily

select a nested table simply by selecting the

<table> tag within the hierarchy of tags within the Quick

Tag Selector.

The functionality offered by the Quick Tag Selector isn’t limited to simple selections. You’ll quickly

notice that if you roll over a particular tag, an expander arrow appears. Selecting the expander arrow

offers a submenu with other options, highlighted in Figure 1-6.

Figure 1-6: Selecting the expander arrow

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