An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 – Forcing Dreamweaver to Add the Class to an Existing Tag
May 20, 2006 | 0 comments
Forcing Dreamweaver to Add the Class to an Existing Tag
Since you applied the highlight class to pieces of text rather than to a block element, Dreamweaver has no choice but to add the <span>
tag to your code to hold the class designation. Using this methodology efficiently requires that you understand when to apply the class styles to block elements instead of creating a new tag for holding it. The following example shows how you can force Dreamweaver to add the class to an existing tag.
- Click within the last line of text on the page (the one that reads Some things may need…).
- In the tag selector at the bottom left corner of the design window, select the entire paragraph tag by clicking the <p>.
- In the color text box in the Property inspector, type:
#333300
. Note that in the design window, the two words colored with the highlight class are still the brighter green, but the remainder of that line of text is now a dark, dull green. - Switch to Code view and note that instead of adding yet another span tag, Dreamweaver has added a class attribute with the value of Style1 to the existing paragraph tag, <p class=”Style1″>.
- Switch to Design view and choose Rename Style from the Style pop-up menu.
- In the Rename Style dialog box, choose Style1 if not already selected and type:
dullndark
. - In the table, click in the middle cell in the second row.
- In the tag selector in the bottom left corner, click the table data tag (<td>). This selects the entire TD tag in the code.
- With the table cell selected, choose dullndark from the Style pop-up menu. This adds the dullndark class to the table cell tag, and will affect any text contained within that table cell.
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