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Joseph W. Lowery

"Dreamweaver CS3 Bible"


n With the cursor over the border, the tooltip reveals the current values for the margin, border, and
padding properties.
I recommend turning on the CSS Layout Box Model feature in the fine-tuning and debugging stages of your
Web page development; it??™s a great tool for understanding exactly why elements on your page are positioned
the way they are.
CSS Layout Outlines
CSS Layout Outlines, when enabled, place a border around
tags and other block layout elements
(see Figure 11-6). The outline is a dashed style for inserted
tags and a solid border for drawn
Dreamweaver AP elements.
FIGURE 11-6
Highlight your
tags at design-time with CSS Layout Outlines.
I tend to keep CSS Layout Outlines enabled during most of my design process; I find having the outlines
visible quickly allows me to insert content in just the right places and, more importantly, select the

tags for quick refinement.
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Adding Advanced Design Features Part III
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Working with Divs and AP Elements 11
In this Technique, you apply previously defined CSS styles to a variety of
tags to create a basic layout.
1. From the Techniques site, expand the 11_Divs folder and open div_start.htm.
The first style to apply acts as a container for the entire page; to apply this properly, you??™ll need to
position the cursor properly.


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