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I am looking at getting started with CSS, and was going
through a video tutorial of Macromedia's Dreamweaver,
and saw how users can edit CSS properties in a window.
I'm curious if Frontpage has that same functionality.
Basically once you create the style name, you can
highlight what you'd like to apply that style to, and
Dreamweaver will show all the properties. You can then
adjust them in the window and save them to the saved
style name.
Does Frontpage 2003 have this functionality? I'm hoping
so, looked like a nice feature.
In FrontPage, you create named styles *and* assign
properties through a dialog box. To display that dialog
box, choose Styles from the Format menu. The dialog box
has a Preview window that shows the effect of the style
properties as you define them.
To assign a style to a paragraph, you click or select any
part of the paragraph, and choose the style you want from
the Style drop-down box on the Formatting toolbar.
To assign a style to any other page element, you right-
click the element, choose Properties, and then click the
Style button.
I suppose that for some designers, refining the
properties of a style in the context of one instance
would seem easier than doing so in the abstract. There
are, however, some drawbacks to that approach:
o The given use of a selector may not be representative
of other uses. A font-size that looks good in one
context may be too large or too small in another,
for example.
o The "live prototype" may be inheriting properties from
a higher element. A span may be inheriting properties
from a paragraph, for example, or a paragraph may be
inheriting properties from a DIV. In such a case,
the appearance of other instances may be different than
the current prototype.
Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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