Datasheet

The following table shows the options offered within the tag’s submenu.

Task Panes

For the most part, all of your creative energy will be focused toward the development area within the

Document window. However, without the collection of Task Panes that Expression Web offers,

normal tasks such as quick browsing of files within a Web site, simple tag property modifications,

centralized CSS style management, and drag-and-drop of common HTML and ASP.NET controls would

consume much of the development time. To alleviate the burden Expression Web has conveniently sepa-

rated all of the common functionality that developers will need the most access to into smaller user inter-

faces known as Task Panes.

Option Description

Select Tag Selects the particular tag, enabling you to apply properties to the tag. Does not

select the contents within the tag.

Select Tag Contents Selects all of the content within the selected tag and not the actual tag.

Edit Tag . . . Launches the Quick Tag Editor in Edit mode. The Quick Tag Editor enables

you to quickly manipulate the properties of the particular tag as if you were

in Code view without actually having to switch to Code view.

Remove Tag Some HTML tags are represented by a single tag and, therefore, can be

removed by simply choosing this option. Other tags (such as the

<table>,

<tr>, and <td> tags) rely on one another to function properly. Since this is the

case, removing them is not an option because it would render the tags invalid

by the browser.

Insert HTML . . . Launches the Quick Tag Editor in Insert mode. While in this mode, the Quick

Tag Editor allows you to freely insert code within the currently selected tag.

Wrap Tag . . . Launches the Quick Tag Editor in Wrap mode. While in this mode, the Quick

Tag Editor allows you to freely insert code that will end up wrapping the cur-

rently selected tag, as long as the resulting HTML is valid. If the HTML is not

valid, Expression Web alerts you of the invalid entry.

Positioning Choose one of the options within this submenu to apply an inline positioning

style to the currently selected tag. Possible options include absolute, fixed,

relative, and static. Positioning properties will be covered with more detail

in Chapter 7, “Advanced Page Structuring by Using Layers and CSS.”

Tag Properties . . . Selecting this option launches a Tag Properties dialog box for the particular

selected tag. The properties that appear within this dialog are similar to the

properties that appear within the vertical list in the Tag Properties Task Pane,

covered in the next section.

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