Applying Character Formats

Character formatting is styling that you can apply to words and individual characters , rather than to blocks such as paragraphs. This formatting includes changing the font, font size , and font color .

Beginning with Dreamweaver MX 2004, and continuing in Dreamweaver 8, the program dispensed with the old method of applying these sorts of character formatting (which was to use the HTML <font> tag), in favor of using CSS styles. This change happened mostly behind the scenes in the Code view, so if you have been using Dreamweaver for quite some time, you may not have even noticed the change.