Using the Tag Editor

You've seen the Quick Tag Editor; now here's the Tag Editor itself. It's not really slower than the Quick version, and it's handy for when you want more control than you can get in, say, the Property Inspector, but you don't want to deal with actual HTML tags.

To use the Tag Editor:

1.	With your page in Design view, select an element where you wish to edit an existing tag. For instance, you can select an image, or the text of a link.
2.	Right-click, and choose Edit Tag off the contextual menu. or Press Shift-F5. or From Dreamweaver's menu, choose Modify > Edit Tag.
3.	The Tag Editor dialog for that particular tag appears. Every tag has a custom dialog of its own with a variety of categories in the left column. Figure 15.17 shows the Tag Editor dialog for a <img> tag, while Figure 15.18 shows the Tag Editor dialog for an <a> tag. Make any desired changes. Figure 15.17. The Tag Editor for images lets you modify every possible attribute and event. Figure 15.18. The Tag Editor for the a tag allows you to change attributes and events for links.
4.	Click OK when complete.

Tips

• Near the bottom right of the Tag Editor dialog is the Tag info disclosure arrow. Click it, and the dialog size increases to include a description of the tag you're modifying. For more information about this description, see "Using the Tag Chooser" and "Using the Code Reference," later in this chapter.

• You can also get into the Tag Editor from Code view by right-clicking on a tag ( Figure 15.19 ).

  Figure 15.19. Right-click and this contextual pop-up appears with the available options.