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Joseph W. Lowery

"Dreamweaver CS3 Bible"

Design-time, however, is another matter. Designers often need to be able to see the underlying
structure to craft their layouts; they also need to be able to hide the structure at any point so they can see a
browser-like view while designing.
Dreamweaver provides a full slate of visualization options for CSS layouts. Each of the options, found under
the Visual Aids menu button on the Document toolbar or the View ??? Visual Aids menu item, can be toggled
in and out of view at will. There are three different visualizations that can be used singly or in combination:
CSS Layout Backgrounds, CSS Layout Box Model, and CSS Layout Outlines. The three CSS layout visualization
options apply to other page elements in addition to
tags. Any page element with the CSS declaration
of display:block, position:absolute, or position:relative is considered a block layout
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element and is affected as well. For example, if an tag style was set to display:block??”a common
method used when developing CSS navigation buttons??”it would be rendered with the visualizations like