TIP 4: Using the Objects Palette

The Objects palette contains both tools and objects that you use when working on a Web page or a Web site. The gray icons at the top of the Objects palette represent tools that help you quickly select and move objects.

Click and hold the color icon below the tools to reveal a list of object categories. Select a category in the list, and all the objects in that category are displayed below. To place an object, drag it from the Objects palette onto a Web page or into a Web site. The default Object categories are seen in Figure 4.

• Basic: Basic page elements such as tables, images, and multi-media files (see Chapter 3).

• Smart: Advanced page elements such as native Adobe image file formats (see Chapter 7) and JavaScript Actions (see Chapter 9).

• CSS: CSS-based page elements such as multi-column boxes (see Chapter 3).

• Forms: All the form elements you'll ever need (see Chapter 9).

• Head: Web page head items such as keywords and other meta tags (see Tip 36).

  Configuring for Compliance

  If you need to target a specific W3C code specification, such as HTML 3.2, HTML 4 Strict, or XHTML 1.1, use the Configure submenu in the bottom right corner of the Objects palette to limit the available objects and help ensure your source code is compliant.

  
  

• Frames: iFrames, frames, and pre-built framesets are stored here (see Chapter 4).

• Site: Objects you'd add to the site window such as blank pages, email addresses, and folders (see Chapter 2).

• Diagram: Dozens of different objects you might use to create a site map with the Diagram feature (see Tip 200).

• QuickTime: 20 different multimedia formats you can use to create interactive QuickTime movies (see Tip 198).

• SMIL: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. Objects used to create interactive, multimedia presentations.

Figure 4. The Objects palette stores everything you might add to a page or site.