TIP 110: Saving Time with Pull-down Menus


Whether you're a CSS beginner who needs help getting started or an experienced coder hoping to save time, you'll love the pull-down menus throughout the CSS Editor (Figure 110). Some of the new style icons in the default view of the CSS Editor, or in the buttons on top if you've turned them on as described in Tip 109, have small black triangles on them. These triangles indicate that if you click and hold on the icons you'll see an automatically populated list of options to choose from.

Figure 110. The pull-down menus in the CSS Editor help you learn and save time when editing CSS.


Customizing the Elements Menu

From the bottom of the Elements menu, choose Edit Styles Example to open the settings file. If there's an obscure element or style property you always want to use, edit it here, and it will be added to the pull-down menu.


For example, if you click and hold on external or @import icons, those menus are auto-populated with all the .css files from the active site. The Elements pull-down menu is also populated with several of the most common elements you'll want to create CSS rules for.



    Adobe GoLive CS2 Tips and Tricks The 250 Best
    Adobe GoLive CS2 Tips and Tricks The 250 Best
    ISBN: B008CMGJS0
    EAN: N/A
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 301

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