All objects selected from the Insert menu are added to the page at the current
cursor position.
n Modify menu??”Inserting objects is less than half the battle of creating a Web page. Most Web
designers spend most of their time adjusting, experimenting with, and tweaking the various
elements. The Modify menu lists all Dreamweaver??™s commands for altering existing selections.
n Text menu??”The Internet was initially an all-text medium, and despite all the multimedia
development, the World Wide Web hasn??™t traveled far from those beginnings. The Text menu
commands cover overall formatting as well as text-oriented functions such as spell checking.
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n Commands menu??”Commands are user-definable code capable of affecting almost any tag,
attribute, or item on the current page??”or even the current site. Commands increase your productivity
by automating many of the mundane, repetitive tasks in Web page creation.
Dreamweaver comes with several handy commands, but they are truly just the tip of the iceberg.
Commands are written in a combination of HTML and JavaScript and can be created and modified
by any capable JavaScript programmer.
The first few items on the Commands menu enable you to create, add, and manage custom commands.
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