Working With Library Items - MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004-USING DREAMWEAVER Use Manual

Grouping assets in a Favorites folder
You can group assets in your Favorites list in folders in the Assets panel. For example, if you have
a set of images that you use on numerous catalog pages in an e-commerce site, you could group
them together in a folder called CatalogImages.
Note: Placing an asset in a Favorites folder does not change the location of the asset's file on
your disk.
To create a Favorites folder:
In the Assets panel (Window > Assets) panel, select the Favorites option at the top of the panel.
1
Click the New Favorites Folder button at the bottom of the panel.
2
Type a name for the folder, then press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh).
3
Drag assets into the folder.
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Related topics
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"Viewing assets in the Assets panel" on page 117
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"Adding assets to and removing assets from the Favorites list" on page 123
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"Creating a nickname for a favorite asset" on page 124

Working with library items

Libraries are a way to store page elements such as images, text, and other objects that you want to
reuse or update frequently throughout your website. These elements are called library items.
Related topics
•
"About library items" on page 115
Creating a library item
You can create a library item from any element in the
tables, forms, Java applets, plug-ins, ActiveX elements, navigation bars, and images.
For linked items such as images, the library stores only a reference to the item. The original file
must remain at the specified location for the library item to work correctly.
It can still be useful to store an image in a library item, though; for example, you could store a
complete tag in a library item, which would allow you to easily change the image's
img
or even its attribute, throughout the site. (Don't use this technique to change an image's
src
and
width height
size of the image.)
attributes, though, unless you also use an image editor to change the actual
section of a document, including text,
body
Working with library items
text,
alt
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