Chapter 12. Property Inspectors

The Property inspector is perhaps the most familiar floating panel in the Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 interface. It is indispensable for defining, reviewing, and changing the name, size, appearance, and other attributes of the selection as well as for launching internal and external editors for the selected element.

Dreamweaver has several built-in interfaces for the Property inspector that let you set properties for many standard HTML tags. Because these built-in inspectors are part of the core Dreamweaver code, you cannot find corresponding Property inspector files for them in the Configuration folder. However, custom Property inspector files let you override these built-in interfaces or create new ones to inspect custom tags. Custom Property inspector files reside in the Configuration/Inspectors folder inside the Dreamweaver application folder.

The following table lists the files you use to create a Property inspector:

Path	File	Description
Configuration/Inspectors/	Propertyinspectorname.htm	Defines the user interface (UI) of the Property inspector.
Configuration/Inspectors/	Propertyinspectorname.js	Contains the functions required by the Property inspector.
Configuration/Inspectors/	Tagimagefile.gif	Optional file to display in the Property inspector.