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    Layout Editor icon Layout Editor

    Displays the primary visual editing environment for a Web page. Design the page structure, drag palette icons to the window, add actions, and enter text.

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    Introduction to page layout

    Using the page design tools

    Titling and setting up your pages

    Using the markup tree bar

    Page icon Page Properties

    Displays the properties of a page in the Page Inspector. Set visible page properties including page margins, a tiling background image, and various document-wide color attributes. Set hidden page properties such as JavaScript library settings.

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    Titling and setting up your pages

    Applying images or color to the page background

    Setting the default color for text or links in a page

    Specifying page margins

    Page title Page name

    Contains the Web page title that appears in the browser's title bar. Edit the title.

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    Titling and setting up your pages

    Setting up pages

    Triangle button Head Section

    Displays the head section of a Web page. Drag the Head Action icon from the Smart set of the Objects palette, and any icons from the Head Set of the Objects palette. Add meta tag information, comments, and JavaScript.

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    Using the page design tools

    Setting up browser-triggered actions

    Setting up JavaScript

    Adding elements or scripts to the head section

    JavaScript Editor button JavaScript Editor

    Displays the JavaScript editor of a Web page. Edit new and existing scripts, including JavaScript. Choose individual scripts to edit from the Select Scripts pop-up menu.

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    Setting up JavaScript

    Using the JavaScript Editor

    Editing an existing JavaScript

    Setting JavaScript preferences

    Using text macros with source code editors

    DHTML Timeline Editor button DHTML Timeline

    Displays the DHTML Timeline editor of a Web page. Add timeline-triggered actions, animation keyframes for floating boxes, and manage multiple scenes.

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    Setting up timeline-triggered actions

    Animating floating boxes

    Applying timeline-triggered actions to floating boxes

    Content Editor tab icon Content Editor

    Displays the content sources for a dynamic page. Add and edit database sources.

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    Adding dynamic content and behavior

    Creating content sources

    Open CSS Editor button CSS Editor

    Displays a Web page's internal style sheet in the CSS Editor. Add HTML element styles, class styles, and ID styles to the page's internal style sheet. Create references to external cascading style sheets and edit their levels of precedence.

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    About the cascading style sheet interface

    Creating a style sheet

    Creating styles in a style sheet

    Referencing external style sheets

    Double-arrow button Split View

    Splits the document window horizontally to display a source editor in a second pane or closes the pane. Check syntax and control the source code display in the bottom pane. This feature is available in the document Layout Editor, Frame Editor, and HTML Outline Editor.

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    Editing HTML code in the Source Code Editor

    Using the Highlight palette

    Checking syntax

    Frame Editor tab Frame Editor

    Displays the frame set and frames of a framed Web page. Divide a page into a frame set, reference a page for each frame, and set the properties of each frame.

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    Working with frames

    ForceFrame

    KillFrame

    Target2Frames

    Source Editor tab icon Source Editor

    Displays the Web page source code with color coding and indented source preferences. Edit the code, drag Object palette icons into the code, display link warnings, and launch a syntax checker.

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    Editing HTML code in the Source Code Editor

    Using the Highlight palette

    Checking syntax

    Outline Editor tab icon Outline Editor

    Displays the Web page source code in a hierarchical structure. Locate link warnings, add new tags, attributes, enumerations, and comments.

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    Editing source code in the Outline Editor

    Checking syntax

    Preview tab Layout Preview

    Displays a page preview within GoLive using Internet Explorer (Windows) or a browser simulation (Mac OS). Also displays pages that use frame sets (Windows only).

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    Previewing files

    Frame Preview tab Frame Preview

    (Mac OS only) Displays a Web page preview of framed pages within GoLive using a browser simulation.

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    Previewing the frame set with its contents

    Double arrow button in the site window Site View

    Splits a site window vertically into two panes to display additional tabs for Extras, Errors, FTP and WebDAV or closes the second pane. Empty site trash, organize site files, fix site errors, and upload files.

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    Using the site window

    Working with the site window

    About site assets

    Deleting files

    Fixing site errors