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CHAPTER 12
Property Inspectors
The Property inspector is perhaps the most familiar floating panel in the Macromedia
Dreamweaver 8 interface. It is indispensable for defining, reviewing, and changing the name,
size, appearance, and other attributes of the selection as well as for launching internal and
external editors for the selected element.
Dreamweaver has several built-in interfaces for the Property inspector that let you set
properties for many standard HTML tags. Because these built-in inspectors are part of the
core Dreamweaver code, you cannot find corresponding Property inspector files for them in
the Configuration folder. However, custom Property inspector files let you override these
built-in interfaces or create new ones to inspect custom tags. Custom Property inspector files
reside in the Configuration/Inspectors folder inside the Dreamweaver application folder.
The following table lists the files you use to create a Property inspector:
Path
Configuration/Inspectors/ Propertyinspectorname.htm
Configuration/Inspectors/ Propertyinspectorname.js
Configuration/Inspectors/ Tagimagefile.gif
Property inspector files
The Property inspector HTML file must contain a comment (in addition to the doctype
comment) immediately preceding the opening HTML tag, as shown in the following
example:
<!-- tag:serverModel:tagNameOrKeyword,priority:1to10,selection:¬
exactOrWithin,hline,vline, serverModel-->
<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "-//Macromedia//DWExtension layout-engine5.0//pi">
File
Description
Defines the user interface (UI) of
the Property inspector.
Contains the functions required by
the Property inspector.
Optional file to display in the
Property inspector.
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