2.5 Page Properties | Dreamweaver in a Nutshell

Use the Page Properties dialog box, shown in Figure 2-21, to format your HTML documents. The dialog box includes options to set the margins, background images and colors, text and link colors, and options to control text encoding. It is accessed by using Modify Page Properties, Ctrl+J (Windows), or Cmd+J (Macintosh).

The Page Properties dialog box sets formatting attributes using the <body> tag, which works with 3.0 browsers but does not conform to the latest HTML standards. Chapter 10 explains how to set similar properties using CSS, when supporting 4.0+ browsers.

Figure 2-21. The Page Properties dialog box

The Page Properties dialog box's options are detailed in Table 2-14.

Table 2-14. Page Properties options

Control	Description
Title	The title for the documentused in the browser window's title bar and used as the default name when bookmarking the page.
Background Image	If the background image is smaller than the page, it is tiled by default; otherwise it is cropped. It can also be controlled by CSS.
Background	Sets the document background color.
Text	Sets the default text color (excluding links).
Links	Sets the default color of links.
Visited Links	Sets the default color of visited links.
Active Links	Sets the default color of active links (the color that appears when clicking on a link).
Left Margin	Sets the left margin in pixels (percentages are not allowed). It is used by IE only and ignored by NN. The right margin cannot be set in IE.
Top Margin	Sets the top margin in pixels (percentages are not allowed). It is used by IE only and ignored by NN. The bottom margin cannot be set in IE.
Margin Width	Sets both the left and right margins in pixels (percentages are not allowed). It is used by NN only and ignored by IE.
Margin Height	Sets both the top and bottom margins in pixels (percentages are not allowed). It is used by NN only and ignored by IE.
Document Encoding	Sets the character encoding used in the document. Use Western (Latin1) encoding for English and Western European languages. Specify Other encoding to use the operating system's default encoding method.
Tracing Image	Specifies a layout guide image to use when designing in Dreamweaver (never visible in a web browser).
Image Transparency	Specifies the transparency level of the tracing image (0 is opaque and 100 is transparent).