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Part I: Creating Great Web Sites
can move the inspector anywhere on the screen or you can drag it into the
panel group and dock it there. When you dock the inspector with the other
panels, you can expand and collapse it just as you would any other panels.
To restore the inspector to its original location, choose Window➪Workspace
Layout➪Reset. I rather like that the Property inspector is handy, yet out of
the way, at the bottom of the screen.
The Property inspector displays the properties, or options, for any selected
element on a page, and it changes based on what’s selected. For example, if
you click an image, the Property inspector displays image properties. If you
click a Flash file, the Property inspector displays Flash properties.
In Dreamweaver CS4, Adobe split the Property inspector into two sections
for many elements, one for HTML features and the other for CSS. Use the CSS
and HTML buttons on the left side of the Property inspector, as shown in
Figure 1-9, to switch from one to the other. (You find detailed instructions for
how to use these two modes of the Property inspector in Chapters 5 and 6.)
Figure 1-9:
The Status
bar and the
Property
inspector in
CSS mode.
At the bottom-right corner of the Property inspector, you see a small arrow.
Click this arrow to reduce the inspector. Click it again to expand the inspector
to reveal additional attributes that let you control more advanced features,
such as the image map options when a graphic is selected. Click the gray bar
at the top of the inspector to close and open the inspector.
The status bar
The status bar is located at the bottom of the Document window and
just above the Property inspector, as shown in Figure 1-9. The status bar
includes access to a number of features that control the display of a page in
Dreamweaver’s workspace, such as the magnifying glass, which enlarges the
view of the open page.
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