The Text objects behave differently, depending on whether you are working in Design view or Code view. If
you are working in Code view, Dreamweaver puts you in charge, and simply surrounds whatever text is
selected with the appropriate HTML tags. If no text is selected, the tag pair is inserted at the current text
insertion point.
In Design view, Dreamweaver also surrounds selected text with the appropriate tag pair. But in some situations,
Dreamweaver does more than blindly surround the selected text with the specified HTML tags. The
following examples illustrate the additional processing that occurs in Design view:
n In Design view the Paragraph, Preformatted Text, Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3 objects
are treated as mutually exclusive. If you select text that is formatted as a Heading 1, and then you
click the Heading 2 button on the Insert bar, Dreamweaver not only surrounds the selected text
with
tags, but also removes the
tags that were there before. In Code
view, Dreamweaver simply adds the
tags without automatically removing the
tags. This is inappropriate coding and should be avoided.
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n When you select one or more paragraphs of text in Design view and then click the Unordered List
button, Dreamweaver creates a bulleted list by inserting
tags around the selected
text, as in Code view.
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