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Use Dreamweaver sample style sheets
Dreamweaver provides sample style sheets that you can apply to your pages or that you can use as starting points to
develop your own styles.
1 Open the CSS Styles panel by doing one of the following:
• Select Window > CSS Styles.
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Press Shift+F11.
In the CSS Styles panel, click the Attach External Style Sheet button. (It's in the lower-right corner of the panel.)
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3 In the Attach External Style Sheet dialog box, click Sample Style Sheets.
In the Sample Style Sheets dialog box, select a style sheet from the list box.
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As you select style sheets within the list box, the Preview pane displays the text and color formatting of the selected
style sheet.
5 Click the Preview button to apply the style sheet and verify that it applies the styles you want to the current page.
If the styles applied are not what you expect them to be, select another style sheet from the list, and click Preview to
see those styles.
By default, Dreamweaver saves the style sheet in a folder named CSS just below the root of the site you defined for
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your page. If that folder does not exist, Dreamweaver creates it. You can save the file to another location by clicking
Browse and browsing to another folder.
When you find a style sheet whose formatting rules meet your design criteria, click OK.
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Update CSS style sheets in a Contribute site
Adobe Contribute users can't make changes to a CSS style sheet. To change a style sheet for a Contribute site, use
Dreamweaver.
1 Edit the style sheet using the Dreamweaver style-sheet-editing tools.
Tell all of the Contribute users who are working on the site to publish pages that use that style sheet, then re-edit
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those pages to view the new style sheet.
The following are important factors to keep in mind when updating style sheets for a Contribute site:
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If you make changes to a style sheet while a Contribute user is editing a page that uses that style sheet, the user
won't see the changes to the style sheet until they publish the page.
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If you delete a style from a style sheet, the style name is not deleted from pages that use that style sheet, but since
the style no longer exists, it isn't displayed the way the Contribute user may expect. Thus, if a user tells you that
nothing happens when they apply a particular style, the problem may be that the style has been deleted from the
style sheet.
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