Creating a Cascading Style Sheet
First, I’d just like to touch on the outmoded use of font tags. By default, Dreamweaver 8 uses s …
Note: This is the Dreamweaver MX 2004 version of this article. It has been updated for Dreamweaver 8 and you can find the updated versi …
Creating a Cascading Style Sheet
First, I’d just like to touch on the outmoded use of font tags. By default, Dreamweaver MX 2004 …
Margins, Padding, and Doc Types
Starting with version MX 2004, Dreamweaver adds a complete doc type to all pages you create. This was a …
Semantic Markup
“The Semantic Web approach develops languages for expressing information in a machine processable form” (W3 …
ID, Class, and Descendant Selectors
In the previous section I reviewed the parts of a CSS rule. I now take you through some of the more …
Note: This is the Dreamweaver MX 2004 version of this article. It has been updated for Dreamweaver 8 and you can find the updated versi …
Adding Default Properties to the Body Rule
Let’s begin by building on the body rule you created in Part 1. There you created thre …
Inheritance and Specificity
In the previous section, you provided a set of default values—values that will be used wherever you do no …
Investigating the Height Property
The height property is a common frustration for CSS newcomers, so I’ll take you through a littl …
In this tutorial, I review positioning page elements with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). I cover the use of margins and the positional p …
Working with Floats
The float property allows you to move a floated element either to the right or to the left within its parent contai …
The Absolutely-Positioned Div
An absolutely-positioned div lives up to its name. It is positioned to a fixed point within its containe …
Relative Positioning
In this section of the tutorial, I explain relative positioning. I begin by making a change or two to the CSS, and …
Static Positioning
In the final section of this tutorial, I review the position: static; declaration. Change your CSS so it reflects t …
Code validation is the process of ensuring that your documents adhere to the rules of a particular markup language. For example, you ca …
Trying to determine exactly which tags, attributes, and CSS properties work in every browser you need to support can be a time consumin …
Selecting Which Browsers to Check Against
The first step in checking your page for errors is to specify the minimum browser version you …
Viewing the Results of an Automatic Target Browser Check
Whenever you open a document, Dreamweaver MX 2004 will check to see if your HT …
Viewing the Browser Target Check Results for an Entire Document
As well as being able to step through the errors one by one, you can di …