n Access key: A single letter that serves as the keyboard equivalent for the hyperlink. Access keys
work only in the most recent browser versions, and they do not work consistently. Pressing the
Alt (Option) key plus the access key may just select the link, or it may actually execute the link.
If you don??™t see the Hyperlink dialog box when you insert a hyperlink, choose Edit ???
Preferences (Dreamweaver ??? Preferences) and, in the Common category, select the Show
Dialog When Inserting Objects option.
Regardless of how you create a link in Dreamweaver, a few restrictions exist for specifying URLs.
Dreamweaver does not support any letters from the extended character set (also known as High ASCII),
such as ??, ? , or ?±. Complete URLs must have fewer than a total of 255 characters. You should be cautious
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about using spaces in pathnames and, therefore, in URLs. Although most browsers can interpret the
address, spaces are changed to a %20 symbol for proper Unix usage. This change can make your URLs
difficult to read.
Whitespace in your HTML code usually doesn??™t have an adverse effect on what is displayed in
a browser. However, Netscape browsers are sensitive to whitespace when assigning a link to
an image.
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