Properties Palette

The Properties palette (also called the Inspector palette) is Dreamweaver's most versatile tool. It is context-sensitive, which means when you click on any element in your document, the inspector palette displays all available options for that element. Let's look at a few of these:

Above is the inspector palette with an image selected. The palette includes a thumbnail of your image, image size, filename (src), alignment and image mapping options, as well as a number of other useful editing and formatting elements.

You can also manually "quick edit" your HTML tags by clicking the icon for the quick tag editor.

Above is the inspector palette with a text link selected. The palette includes font and link information, as well as the standard alignment and formatting options for text. Note in the bottom section of the palette is an icon indicating a table. This text is located in a table cell. Therefore, you can also edit the size, border, and color of this table cell.

Note that all links and references to other files are followed by two icons. The first icon is the point-and-shoot icon. This icon allows you to click-drag-point-and-shoot to the file you are linking to. The second icon allows you to "browse" for your target file using an Explorer- or Finder-type of file menu.

Above is yet one more example of the inspector palette, this time with a table selected. Note that this menu allows you to specify the number of rows and columns in your table, width and height options, cell padding and spacing, and all the other options available for building and editing tables in your document.