For information about including dynamic images from data sources, see Chapter 20.
Whether you are choosing from the file system or a data source, the image??™s address can be a filename, a
directory path and filename on your system, a directory path and filename on your remote system, or a full
URL to a graphic on a completely separate Web server. The file doesn??™t need to be immediately available for
the code to be inserted into your HTML.
If you have an always-on Internet connection such as cable or DSL, Dreamweaver displays
images referenced by absolute URLs right in Design view. Dreamweaver automatically reads
and includes the width and height dimensions in the generated source code.
From the Select Image Source dialog box, you can browse to your image folder and preview images before
you load them. If you are using Mac OS X, the image preview is automatically enabled. On Windows, select
the Preview Images option.
In the lower portion of the dialog box, the URL text box displays the format of the address that Dreamweaver
inserts into your code. Below the URL text box is the Relative To list box. Use it to declare an image relative
to the document you??™re working on (the default) or relative to the site root. (After you??™ve saved your document,
you can see its name displayed beside the Relative To list box.
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