MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS MX 2004-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual page 252

Exporting HTML
Unless you specify otherwise, when you export a sliced Fireworks document, what you're actually
exporting is an HTML file and its images.
Fireworks generates pure HTML that can be read by most web browsers and HTML editors.
There are a variety of ways to export Fireworks HTML:
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Export an HTML file, which you can later open for editing in an HTML editor.
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Copy HTML code to the Clipboard in Fireworks, and then paste that code directly into an
existing HTML document.
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Export an HTML file, open it in an HTML editor, manually copy sections of code from the
file, and paste that code into another HTML document.
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Use the Update HTML command to make changes to an HTML file you've
previously created.
Note: Macromedia Dreamweaver shares a tight integration with Fireworks. Fireworks handles the
export of HTML to Dreamweaver differently than it handles export to other HTML editors. If you are
exporting Fireworks HTML to Dreamweaver, see "Working with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
2004" in Working with Other Applications on the Fireworks Support Center at
www.macromedia.com/support/fireworks/.
You can also export HTML as Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) layers. Fireworks supports UTF-8
encoding and XHTML, so you can export documents using these standards as well.
To define how Fireworks exports HTML, you use the HTML Setup dialog box. These settings
can be document-specific or used as your default settings for all HTML that Fireworks exports.
About HTML
HTML code is automatically generated by Fireworks when you export, copy, or update HTML.
You do not need to understand it to use it. After it is generated there is no need to change it to
make it work, as long as you do not rename or move files.
HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, is currently the standard for displaying web pages on
the Internet. An HTML file is a text file that contains these elements:
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Text that will appear on the web page
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HTML tags that define the formatting and structure of that text and of the entire document as
well as links to images and other HTML documents (web pages)
HTML tags are enclosed in brackets and look something like this:
<TAG> affected text </TAG>
The opening tag tells a browser to format the text following in a certain way or to include a
graphic. The closing tag (
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), when there is one, indicates the end of that formatting.
</TAG>