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.
Use the Update HTML command to make changes to an HTML file you've
previously created.
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
Macromedia Dreamweaver" on page
By default, Fireworks specifies UTF-8 encoding when you export HTML, which ensures that
the characters in the HTML file will be displayed correctly for all languages.
You can also export HTML as Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) layers and XHTML.
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:
Text that will appear on the web page
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 (
formatting.
Including comments in HTML
Fireworks HTML is well commented, telling you what the pieces of code relate to. Fireworks
HTML comments begin with
is not interpreted as HTML or JavaScript code. If you want comments included in your
HTML, you must tell Fireworks you want this option turned on.
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), when there is one, indicates the end of that
</TAG>
and end with
<!--
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. Anything between these two markers
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