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Part I: The Basics
Page Editor
The Page Editor in SharePoint Designer is the design surface where you compose the elements of your
page. It offers three primary modes, or views, of the page that is currently open — Design , Code , and
Split . These modes are selected with the Page Mode toolbar, at the left along the lower window margin.
When no page is open for editing, the central area of the workspace shows the Web Site structural views
(covered later in this chapter).
All three views are available for web page file types (
.htm , .aspx , and .master , for example). Files
such as
.css , .js , and .txt that do not have a direct visual component only have Code view and do
not display the Page Mode toolbar.
Figure 1 - 3 shows the Page Editor in Design view, with the menu and all of the toolbars and task panes
removed. This can be accomplished either by closing or floating each item, and dragging the floated
items someplace unobtrusive. (This is sometimes referred to as dragging the element offstage . ) What
remain are the design surface itself and the status bar.
Tab bar
Quick Tag Selector
Status bar
Page Mode toolbar
Figure 1-3
The Page Editor has the following elements (see Figure 1 - 3 ):
Tab bar: Across the top of the Page Editor is a tab bar, which gives access to each file that is
currently open in SharePoint Designer. Files that have been modified since being opened or last
saved are indicated with an asterisk ( * ). The leftmost tab, Web Site, gives access to the site
structural views (described later in this chapter).
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