This glossary is provided for your information only; it is not meant to be relied upon as a complete or authoritative description of the terms defined below or of the privacy and/or security ramifications of the technologies described.
Glossary
- authentication
- The use of a password, certificate, personal identification number (PIN), or other information to validate an identity over a computer network.
- cache
- A collection of web page copies stored on your computer's hard disk or in its random-access memory (RAM). &brandShortName; accumulates these copies as you browse the Web. When you click a link or type a URL to fetch a particular web page for which the cache already contains a copy, &brandShortName; compares the cached copy to the original. If there have been no changes, &brandShortName; uses the cached copy rather than refetching the original, saving processing and download time.
- certificate
- The digital equivalent of an ID card. A certificate specifies the name of an individual, company, or other entity and certifies that a public key, which is included in the certificate, belongs to that entity. When you digitally sign a message or other data, the digital signature for that message is created with the aid of the private key that corresponds to the public key in your certificate.
- client
- Software (such as an Internet browser) that sends requests to and receives information from a server, which is usually running on a different computer. A computer on which client software runs is also described as a client.
- cryptography
- The art and practice of scrambling (encrypting) and unscrambling (decrypting) information. For example, cryptographic techniques are used to scramble and unscramble information flowing between commercial web sites and &brandShortName;.
- Cascading Style Sheets(CSS)
- CSS is a simple mechanism to add style e.g. fonts, colors, positioning, etc to web documents. CSS allows complete and total control over the style of a hypertext document.
- decryption
- The process of unscrambling data that has been encrypted. See also encryption.
- digital ID
- See certificate.
- encryption
- The process of scrambling information in a way that disguises its meaning. For example, encrypted connections between computers make it very difficult for third-parties to unscramble, or decrypt, information flowing over the connection. Encrypted information can be decrypted only by someone who possesses the appropriate key.
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- An open standard for describing data. Unlike HTML, XML allows the developer of a web page to define special tags. For more information, see the online W3C document Extensible Markup Language (XML).
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- A File Transfer Protocol(FTP) is a protocol standard for transfering computer files between different computers connected via a network. A remote computer, the FTP server, accepts connections from other computers called clients. Once the connection is established, clients can get files from the server or put files on the server depending upon the login account privileges.However, a security hole in FTP is that passwords are sent as clear text, unlike sFTP. &brandShortName; Site Manager uses FTP for publishing web pages.
- FIPS PUBS 140-1
- Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS PUBS) 140-1 is a US government standard for implementations of cryptographic modules — hardware or software that encrypts and decrypts data or performs other cryptographic operations (such as creating or verifying digital signatures). Many products sold to the US government must comply with one or more of the FIPS standards.
- helper application
- Any application that is used to open or view a file downloaded by &brandShortName;. A plug-in is a special kind of helper application that installs itself into the Plugins directory of the main &brandShortName; installation directory and can typically be opened within &brandShortName; itself. Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, and other external applications are considered helper applications but not plug-ins, because they don't install themselves into the browser directory but can be opened from the download dialog box.
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
- The document format used for web pages. The HTML standard defines tags, or codes, used to define the text layout, fonts, style, images, and other elements that make up a web page.
- Internet
- A worldwide network of millions of computers that communicate with each other using standard protocols such as TCP/IP. Originally developed for the US military in 1969, the Internet grew to include educational and research institutions and, in the late 1990s, millions of businesses, organizations, and individuals. Today the Internet is used for email, browsing the World Wide Web, instant messaging, mailing lists and usegroups, and many other purposes.
- Internet protocol address (IP address)
- The address of a computer on a TCP/IP network. Every computer on the Internet has an IP address. Clients have either a permanent IP address or one that is dynamically assigned to them each time they connect with the network.
- Java
- A programming language developed by Sun Microsystems. A single Java program can run on many different kinds of computers, thus avoiding the need for programmers to create a separate version of each program for each kind of computer. After Java is installed, &brandShortName; can automatically download and run Java programs (also called applets).
- JavaScript
- A scripting language commonly used to construct web pages. Programmers use JavaScript to make web pages more interactive; JavaScript is often used to dynamically validate forms and select buttons. JavaScript can be used with Java, but it is technically a separate language. Java is not required for JavaScript to work correctly.
- master password
- A password used to protect saved passwords and other private data. &brandShortName; will prompt you for your master password when you wish to access this data. If you have multiple security devices, each security device will require a separate master password.
- The toolbar near the top of the &brandShortName; window that includes the Back and Forward buttons.
- Password Manager
- The part of &brandShortName; that can help you remember some or all of your names and passwords by storing them on your computer's hard disk and entering them for you automatically when you visit such sites.
- PKCS #11
- The public-key cryptography standard that governs security devices such as smart cards.
- plug-in
- A type of helper application that adds new capabilities to &brandShortName;, such as the ability to play audio or video clips. Unlike other kinds of helper applications, a plug-in application installs itself into the Plugins directory within the main &brandShortName; installation directory and typically can be opened within &brandShortName; itself (internally). For example, an audio plug-in lets you listen to audio files on a web page or in an e-mail message. Macromedia Flash Player and Java are both examples of plug-in applications.
- private key
- One of a pair of keys used in public-key cryptography. The private key is kept secret and is used to decrypt data that has been encrypted with the corresponding public key.
- proxy
- An intermediary or "go-between" program that acts as both a server and a client for the purpose of making requests on behalf of other clients.
- Publishing
- The process of uploading web document(s) to a web server is called publishing. It is only after publishing your web documents to the web server others can view the documents using their clients. In &brandShortName;, the Site Manager accomplishes the task of publishing.
- search engine
- A web-based program that allows users to search for and retrieve specific information from the World Wide Web. The search engine may search the full text of web documents or a list of keywords; it may also use librarians who review web documents and index them manually for retrieval. Typically, the user types a word or phrase into a search box, and the search engine displays links to relevant web pages.
- Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol
- Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol(sFTP) is similar to FTP with the difference that the session is encrypted making it more secure.
- secure site
- A site that uses encryption in connections with &brandShortName; to prevent other malicious Internet users from viewing transmitted data. When you visit secure sites, &brandShortName; displays a lock icon in the Status Bar and the Location Bar. &brandShortName; also displays the site's domain name in the Status Bar (to prevent malicious sites from stealing your data) and turns the background of the Location Bar to yellow.
- Some sites may consist of both secure and insecure data; the insecure data usually is non-private, although it isn't guaranteed to be so. For such sites &brandShortName; will display a lock icon with a slash through it in the Status Bar and Location Bar and will not display the site's domain name in the Status Bar so that you know that the current web page isn't completely secure.
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- A protocol that allows mutual authentication between a client and a server for the purpose of establishing an authenticated and encrypted connection. SSL runs above TCP/IP and below HTTP, LDAP, IMAP, NNTP, and other high-level network protocols. The new Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard called Transport Layer Security (TLS) is based on SSL. See also authentication, encryption.
- server
- Software (such as software that serves up web pages) that receives requests from and sends information to a client, which is usually running on a different computer. A computer on which server software runs is also described as a server.
- Site Manager
- The part of &brandShortName; which manages the uploading and downloading of the web documents created with &brandShortName;. The Site Manager uses FTP to transfer the web documents to and from the web server.
- Status Bar
- The toolbar that appears at the bottom of any &brandShortName; window. It shows the tags enclosing the current cursor position.
- TLS
- See Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
- Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
- A Unix protocol used to connect computers running a variety of operating systems. TCP/IP is an essential Internet protocol and has become a global standard.
- Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
- The standardized address that tells &brandShortName; how to locate a file or other resource on the Web (for example, http://www.mozilla.org). Type URLs into &brandShortName;'s Location Bar to access web pages. URLs are also used in the links on web pages go to other web pages. Also known as an Internet or Web address.
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) is a consortium that produces standards recommendations for the World Wide Web. According to W3C, "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential". These recommendations e.g. HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.1, CSS 2.1, etc. are often called Web Standards.
- web page
- A single document on the World Wide Web that is specified by a unique address or URL. A web page may contain text, hyperlinks, and graphics.
- Web Server
- Web Server is the machine running the web server software(e.g. Apache). It serves various kinds of web documents to a client. It is the web server software which is responsible to send us the reqired data so that we can see the requested web site in a web browser.
- web site
- A group of related web pages linked by hyperlinks and managed by a single company, organization, or individual. A web site may include text, graphics, audio and video files, and links to other web sites.
- World Wide Web
- Also known as the Web. A portion of the Internet that is made up of web pages stored by web servers and displayed by clients called web browsers (such as &brandShortName;).
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Using the Help Window
This section describes how to use the Help window (the entire window in which this text and the Sidebar on the left are displayed).
Finding the Topic You Want
When you're viewing the Help window, click the tabs in the left frame to view the Help contents in different ways:
- Contents shows the list of main topics.
Click a topic to read about it. Double-click to see its subtopics. - Search lets you search the Help files.
Type a word or phrase and press Enter to see related topics. Then click the topic you want to read about.
If your search doesn't return any topics, try typing fewer words or a different combination of words. - Index lists topics alphabetically.
Click an index entry to view information on that topic. - Glossary lists definitions alphabetically.
Click a glossary term to see its definition.
To see information related to the Help topic you are reading, click links in the Help window just as you would in a regular web page.
Retracing Your Steps
To retrace your steps in Help, click the buttons near the top left corner of the Help window:
- Click the Show/Hide Sidebar button to show and hide the Sidebar contained on the left side of the Help Window.
- Click the Back button to move back through pages you have previously visited. It works just like the Back button in the main &brandShortName; window.
- Click the Forward button to move forward through pages you have previously visited. It works just like the Forward button in the main &brandShortName; window.
- Click the Home button to see the Help and Support Center, which includes links to support options and web-based resources.
Alternatively, print the instructions you want to follow:
- To print the whole page that's currently displayed in the Help window,
click the Print button near the top-right corner of the Help window:
- To print just a portion of the page, first click and drag to select the area you want to print and then click the Print button.
Search Tips
If you aren't finding what you want in your search, here are a few helpful tips:
- Be sure that you are searching for something that relates to &brandShortName;; this is not a general Internet search.
- Try to broaden your search - don't be too specific; terms could be worded differently than your search.
- Avoid being too broad with your search: words like "&brandShortName;" and "&vendorShortName;" could possibly return all of the pages in the help file.
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Creating Web Pages with &brandShortName;
&brandShortName; lets you create your own web pages and publish them on the web. You don't have to know HTML to use &brandShortName;; it is as easy to use as a word processor.
Toolbar buttons let you add lists, tables, images, links to other pages, colors, and font styles. You can see what your document will look like on the Web as you create it, and you can easily share your document with other users, no matter what type of browser or HTML-capable email program they use.
Starting a New Page
Creating a New Page
&brandShortName; is an HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) editor that allows you to create and edit web pages. &brandShortName; is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, so you can display how your page will look to the reader as you're creating it. It is not necessary for you to know HTML, since most of the basic HTML functions are available as commands from the toolbars and menus.
&brandShortName; also lets you edit the HTML source if you want. To view or edit the HTML source code, open the View menu, and choose HTML Source, or click the <HTML> Source tab in the Edit Mode toolbar at the bottom of the &brandShortName; window.
To create a web page, use one of the methods described below. Once you've started a page, you can add and edit text just as you would in a word processor.
To create a new page in &brandShortName;:
- Click the New button in &brandShortName;'s toolbar.
To start from an HTML file stored on your local drive:
- Open the Window menu and choose &brandShortName;. You see the &brandShortName; window.
- Open the menu and choose . You see the Open HTML File dialog box.
- On your local drive, locate the file that you want to edit.
- Click to display the specified file in a &brandShortName; window.
To edit a web page:
- Open &brandShortName;
- Click on menu and choose . You will see the Open Web Location dialog box.
- Type in the URL of the page to edit (for example, http://www.mozilla.org) and click Create button. You will see the page displayed in &brandShortName;.
&brandShortName; also gives you the option of creating a new document using the XHTML format. To create an XHTML document, check the option "create an XHTML document" in the Create New Document or Template dialog box.
Tip: In the &brandShortName; window you can quickly open the most recent file you've been working on by opening the File menu, choosing Recent Pages, and then selecting the file you want from the list.
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Tabs - Editing Multiple Documents
&brandShortName; allows you to edit multiple documents at the same time. Rather than to shift from one window to another for editing more than one document, &brandShortName; offers the feature of Tabs. More than one document can be opened at the same time with &brandShortName; in the same window but in different tabs.
Tabs can be opened using either Ctrl+T or by choosing Create in: New Tab in the New file open dialog. Even with multiple tabs open, each is handled independently. Each document's state is indicated, i.e. if it is modified and needs saving by a red-floppy icon on the corresponding tab.
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Saving and Browsing Your New Page
You can save &brandShortName; documents in HTML or text-only format. Saving a document in HTML format preserves the document's formatting, such as text styles (for example, bold or italic), tables, links, and images. Saving a document in text-only format removes all the HTML tags but preserves the document's text.
To save a document as an HTML file:
- Open the File menu and choose Save or click the Save button
on the Composition toolbar.
If you haven't already given your page a title, &brandShortName; prompts you to do so. &brandShortName; displays the page title in the browser window's title bar when you view the page in the browser. The document's page title also appears in your list of bookmarks if you bookmark the page.
&brandShortName; then prompts you to enter a filename and specify the location where you want to save the file. Make sure you preserve the .html extension in the filename. While saving or editing documents employing XHTML, the file should have the extension as .xhtml. Files with an extension .html but having an XHTML DOCTYPE are not considered as xhtml documents.
To change the filename or location of an existing HTML file:
- Choose and select a different filename or location.
When you save a page in &brandShortName;, all parts of the page (the HTML, images and other files, such as sound files and style sheets), are saved locally on your hard drive. If you only want to save the HTML part of the page, you must change the &brandShortName; preference for saving pages. See &brandShortName; Preferences for more information on changing &brandShortName;'s setting for saving pages.
If an image location is absolute (starts with "http://") and you are connected to the Internet, you will still see that image in the document in &brandShortName; and Navigator. However, if the image location is relative to the page location (starts with "file:///"), then you won't see the image in the local version of the document.
To save a document as a text-only file:
- Open the menu and choose .
- Enter the filename and specify the location where you want to save the file.
Note: Images do not appear in documents saved in the text-only format.
Tip: You can choose Revert from the File menu to retrieve the most recently saved copy of the document in which you're working. Keep in mind that your current changes will be lost.
To view your page in a browser window in order to test your links:
- Open the File menu and choose Browse Page (or click Browse in the Composition toolbar). If you have not yet saved your document, &brandShortName; prompts you to enter a page title, filename, and location. The &brandShortName; window remains open behind the new Navigator window.
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Setting Page Properties
Setting Page Properties and Meta Tags
Use the Page Properties dialog box to enter properties such as the title, author, and description of the document you're currently working on. This information is useful if you plan to use the page on a web site, since search engines use this type of information to index your page. You can view this information from the browser window by opening the View menu and choosing Page Info.
- Open the Format menu and choose Page Title and Properties.
- Edit any of the following properties:
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- Title: Type the text you want to appear as the window title when someone views the page through a browser. This is how most web search tools locate web pages, so choose a title that conveys what your page is about.
- Author: Type the name of the person who created
the document. This information is helpful to readers who locate the
document by using a web search tool to search on name.
Tip: If you enter the Author name in &brandShortName;'s preferences, then you won't have to enter it each time you create a new page.
- Description: Enter a brief description of the document's contents.
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Setting Page Colors and Backgrounds
You can change the background color or specify a background image for the page you're currently working on. These choices affect the way text and links in your page appear to people viewing the page through a browser.
To set the colors and background for the current page, begin from the &brandShortName; window:
- Open the Format menu and choose Page Colors and Background.
- Edit any of the following properties:
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- Reader's default colors: Select this if you want your page to use the color settings from the viewer's browser for text and links.
- Use custom colors: Select this if you want to specify the colors of text and links. For each element, select a color from the drop-down list. Sample output for each type of link appears in the pane on the right.
- Background image: Select this if you want the
background of your page to be an image. Type the name of the image
file or click Choose File to locate the image file on your hard drive
or network.
Note: Background images are tiled and override background color selections.
- URL is relative to page location: If checked,
&brandShortName; converts the URL to be relative to the page's
location. This is especially useful if you plan to publish your pages
on a web server so that others can view them.
Using relative URLs allows you to keep all your linked files in the same place relative to each other, regardless of their location on your hard disk or a web server.
Deselecting this option causes &brandShortName; to convert the URL to a full (absolute) URL. You typically use absolute URLs when linking to images on other web servers (not stored locally on your hard disk).
If you have unsaved changes, you must first save the page in order to enable this checkbox.
Note: To apply additional attributes or JavaScript events, click Advanced Edit to display the Advanced Property Editor.
You can also set the default page background and colors for every new page you create in &brandShortName;.
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Formatting Your Web Pages
Formatting Paragraphs, Headings, and Lists
To apply a format to a paragraph, begin from the &brandShortName; window:
- Click to place the insertion point where you want the format to begin, or select the text you want to format.
- Choose a paragraph format using the drop-down list in the Format toolbar:
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- Body Text: Applies the application default font and style for regular text, without affecting the spacing before or after the text.
- Paragraph: Inserts a paragraph tag (use this to begin a new paragraph). The paragraph includes top and bottom margins.
- Heading 1 - Heading 6: Formats the paragraph as a heading. Heading 1 is the highest-level heading, while Heading 6 is the lowest-level heading.
- Address: Can be used for a web page "signature"
that indicates the author of the page and the person to contact for
more information, for example: user@example.com
You might want to include the date and a copyright notice. This format usually appears at the bottom of the web page under a horizontal line. Navigator displays the address format in italics.
- Preformat: This is useful for elements such as code examples, column data, and mail messages that you want displayed in a fixed-width font. In normal text, most browsers remove extra spaces, tabs, and paragraph returns. However, text that uses the Preformatted style is displayed with the white space intact, preserving the layout of the original text.
To format text as a heading:
- Click to place the insertion point anywhere within the text that you want to format.
- Using the drop-down list in the Format toolbar, choose the level of heading you want, from 1 (largest) to 6 (smallest). Choose "Heading 1" for your main heading, "Heading 2" for the next level, and so forth.
To apply a list item format:
- Click to place the insertion point within the line of text that you want to format.
- Open the Format menu and choose List.
- Choose the list style:
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- Bulleted: Each item has a bullet (dot) next to it (as in this list).
- Numbered: Items are numbered.
- Term and Definition: These two styles work together, creating a glossary-style appearance. Use the Term tag for the word being defined, and the Definition tag for the definition. The Term text appears flush left, and the Definition text appears indented.
Tip: You can quickly apply a list style to a block
of text by selecting the text
and clicking the Numbered List
or Bulleted List
buttons on the Format toolbar.
To change the style of bullets or numbers:
- Click to place the insertion point within the text of the list item you want to change, or select one or more items in the list if you want to apply a new style to the entire list.
- Open the Format menu and choose List Properties.
- Select a bullet or number style from the drop-down list. For numbered lists, you can specify a starting number. For bulleted lists, you can change the bullet style.
Tip: You can also double-click on a bullet or number in a list to display the List Properties dialog box.
To align a paragraph or text in your page, for example, centering or aligning to the left or right:
- Click to place the insertion point within the paragraph or line of text you want to align.
- Open the Format menu and choose Align; then choose an alignment option.
Note: You can also use the Format toolbar to align text.
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Working with Lists
To end a list and continue typing body text:
- Click to place the insertion point at the end of the last list item and press Enter (Return on Mac OS) twice to end the list.
To change one or more list items to body text:
- Click to place the insertion point within the list item, or select the list items.
- In a numbered list, click the numbered list button (or in a bulleted list, click the bulleted list button) in the Format toolbar.
To position indented text below a list item:
- Click to place the insertion point within the list item.
- Press Shift-Enter to create the hanging indent.
- Type the text you want to indent.
- Press Shift-Enter to create another indented paragraph, or press Return to create the next list item.
Tip: You can increase or decrease the indentation of list items by clicking anywhere in a list item and then clicking the Indent or Outdent button on the Format toolbar. Alternatively, click anywhere in a list item and press Tab to indent one level. Press Shift+Tab to outdent one level.
To merge two adjacent lists:
- Select the two lists that you want to merge. Be sure to select all of the elements in both lists. Note that any text in between the two lists will also become part of the merged list.
- Click the bulleted or numbered list button in the Format toolbar to merge the lists.
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Changing Text Color, Style, and Font
To change the style, color, or font of selected text:
- Select the text you want to format.
- Open the Format menu and choose one of the following:
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- Font: Use this to
choose a font. If you prefer to use fonts specified by the reader's
browser, select Variable Width or Fixed Width.
Note: Not all fonts installed on your computer appear. Instead of specifying a font that may not be available to all who view your web page, it's generally best to select one of the fonts provided in the menu since these fonts work on every computer. For example, the fonts Helvetica, Arial, Times, and Courier generally look the same when viewed on different computers. If you select a different font, it may not look the same when viewed using a different computer.
- Size: Use this to choose a relative font size or select an option to increase or decrease text size (relative to the surrounding text).
- Text Style: Use this to select a style, such as italic, bold, or underline, or to apply a structured style, for example, Code.
- Text Color: Use this to choose a color from the color picker. If you are familiar with HTML hexadecimal color codes, you can type a specific code or you can just type a color name (for example, "blue"). You'll find a handy color code converter here.
- Font: Use this to
choose a font. If you prefer to use fonts specified by the reader's
browser, select Variable Width or Fixed Width.
To change the background color of the page:
- Click anywhere in the page.
- Click the background color block in the Format toolbar.
- Choose a background color from the Block Background Color dialog box.
- Click OK.
Tip: To quickly change the color of text to the color last used, select the text, then press Shift and click on the text color block in the Format toolbar. This is useful when you want to use one color for separate lines of text.
You can also use an image as a background. See Setting Page Colors and Backgrounds.
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Removing or Discontinuing Text Styles
To remove all text styles (bold, italic, and so on) from selected text:
- Select the text.
- Open the Format menu and choose Remove All Text Styles.
- Continue typing.
To continue typing text with all text styles removed:
- Place the insertion point where you want to discontinue the text styles.
- Open the Format menu and choose Discontinue Text Styles.
- Continue typing.
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Finding and Replacing Text
To find text in the page you're currently working on:
- Click to place the insertion point where you want to begin your search.
- Open the Edit menu and choose Find and Replace. You see the Find and Replace dialog box.
- Type the text you want to locate in the "Find what" field. To
narrow the search, check one or more of the following options:
- Match upper/lower case: Use this to specify whether the search is for case-sensitive text.
- Wrap around: Use this to search to the end of the page and then start again from the top or bottom, depending on whether you are searching forward or backwards.
- Search backwards: Use this to search back from the insertion point to the beginning of the page.
- Click Find Next to begin searching. When &brandShortName; locates the first occurrence of the text, click Find Next to search for the next occurrence.
- Click Close when you are done.
To find and replace text in the page you're currently working on:
- Click to place the insertion point where you want to begin your search.
- Open the Edit menu and choose Find and Replace. You see the Find and Replace dialog box.
- Type the text you want to find and then type the replacement text.
- To narrow the search, check one or more of the following
options:
- Match upper/lower case: Use this to specify whether the search is for case-sensitive text. If you don't select this option, the search will find matching text in both upper and lower case.
- Wrap around: Use this to search to the end of the page and then start again from the top.
- Search backwards: Use this to search from the end to the beginning of the page.
- Click Find Next to search for the next occurrence. &brandShortName; selects the next occurrence of the text.
- Click Replace to replace the selected text with the replacement text. Click Replace and Find to replace the selected text and find the next occurrence. Click Replace All to replace every occurrence in the document with the replacement text.
- Click Close when you are done.
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Inserting Horizontal Lines
Horizontal lines are typically used to separate different sections of a document visually. To insert a horizontal line (also called a rule) in your page, begin from the &brandShortName; window:
- Click to place the insertion point where you want the line to appear.
- Open the Insert menu and choose Horizontal Line.
Setting Horizontal Line Properties
You can customize a line's height, length, width, alignment, and shading.
- Double-click the line to display the Horizontal Line Properties dialog box.
- Edit any of these properties:
- Width: Enter the width and then choose "% of window" or "pixels." If you specify width as a percentage, the line's width changes whenever the &brandShortName; window's or browser window's width changes.
- Height: Type a number for the line's height (in pixels).
- 3-D Shading: Select this to add depth to the line by adding a bevel shading.
- Alignment: Specify where you want to place the line (left, center, or right).
- Click Use as Default to use these settings as the default the next time you insert a horizontal line.
- To edit the properties of a horizontal line manually, click Advanced Edit. See the section, Advanced Property Editor, for details.
Tip: You can select "Show All Tags" from the View menu to show all the HTML elements in yellow boxes. Click any yellow box to select everything within that HTML tag or element. Double-click any yellow box to display the Advanced Property Editor dialog box for that HTML tag or element.
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Inserting Special Characters
To insert special characters such as accent marks, copyrights, or currency symbols:
- Click to place the insertion point where you want the special character to appear.
- Open the Insert menu and choose Characters and Symbols. You see the Insert Character dialog box.
- Select a category of characters.
- If you choose Accent Uppercase or Accent Lowercase, then open the Letter drop-down list and select the letter you wish to apply an accent to. (Note: not all letters have accented forms.) Select Common Symbols to insert special characters such as copyright symbols or fractions.
- From the Character drop-down list, select the character you want to insert.
- Click Insert.
You can continue typing in your document (or in a mail compose window) while you keep this dialog box open, in case you want to use it again.
- Click Close when you are done inserting special characters.
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Inserting HTML Elements and Attributes
If you understand how to work with HTML source code, you can insert additional tags, style attributes, and JavaScript into your page. If you are not sure how to work with HTML source code, it's best not to change it. To work with HTML code, use one of these methods:
- Place the insertion point where you want to insert the HTML code, or select the text you want to edit, and then open the Insert menu and choose HTML. In the Insert HTML dialog box, enter HTML tags and text, and then click Insert.
- Select an element such as a table, named anchor, image, link, or horizontal line. Double-click the element to open the associated properties dialog box for that item. Click Advanced Edit to open the Advanced Property Editor. You can use the Advanced Property Editor to add HTML attributes, JavaScript, and CSS to objects.
- Open the View menu, and choose HTML Source, or click the <HTML> Source tab in the Edit Mode toolbar at the bottom of the &brandShortName; window. (If you don't see the Edit Mode toolbar, open the View menu and choose Show/Hide; then make sure the Edit Mode Toolbar is checked.)
Using the Advanced Property Editor
To add HTML attributes and JavaScript to objects such as tables, images, and horizontal lines, you can use the Advanced Property Editor.
Note: Unless you clearly understand how to add, delete, or modify HTML attributes and their associated values, it's best not to do so.
If you are not currently viewing the Advanced Property Editor dialog box, follow these steps:
- From the View menu (or the Edit Mode toolbar), choose Show All Tags.
- Double-click the object that you want to modify to open its Properties dialog box.
- Click Advanced Edit to open the object's Advanced Property
Editor. The Advanced Property Editor has three tabs, each of which
lists the current properties for the selected object:
- HTML Attributes: Click this tab to view or enter additional HTML attributes.
- Inline Style: Click this tab to view or enter additional CSS (cascading style sheet) properties through the <style> attribute. For more information on using CSS styles in &brandShortName;, see &brandShortName; Preferences.
- JavaScript Events: Click this tab to view or enter JavaScript events.
- To edit a property or attribute in any of the three lists,
select the attribute you want to edit. You can then edit the
attribute's name or value using the editable Attribute and Value
fields at the bottom of the dialog box. To add a new attribute, type
it in the Attribute field at the bottom of the dialog box. The new
attribute is automatically added when you click in the Value
field. To remove an attribute, select it in the list, and click
Remove Attribute.
Note: Required attributes are highlighted in the Attribute list.
- Click OK to apply your changes to the Advanced Property Editor dialog box.
- Click OK again to exit the Properties dialog box.
&brandShortName; automatically places quotation marks around any attribute text.
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Validating the HTML
Before you put your document on a web server(i.e. publish it), it is good practice to first check the document's HTML formatting so as to make sure that it conforms to web standards. Documents containing validated HTML are less likely to cause problems when viewed by different browsers. Just visually checking your web pages in your favourite web browser doesn't ensure that your document will appear correctly when viewed in other web browsers.
&brandShortName; provides a convenient way for you to check that your document conforms to W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) HTML standards. &brandShortName; uses the W3C HTML Validation Service, which checks your document's HTML syntax for compliance with HTML 4.01 standards. This service also provides information on how to correct errors.
Note: You must be connected to the Internet to use this feature.
To validate your document's HTML syntax:
- Open the Tools menu, and choose Validate HTML. If you have unsaved changes, &brandShortName; asks you to save them before proceeding.
- &brandShortName; will open another window with results for your page displayed in it after the W3C Validation Service program parses your html file.
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Choosing the Right Editing Mode
Typically, you won't need to change the editing mode from the default (Normal). However, if you want to work with the document's HTML source code, you may want to change editing modes.
&brandShortName; allows you to quickly switch between four editing modes or views. Each editing mode allows you to continue working on your document, but displays varying levels of HTML tags (and tag icons).
Before you choose an editing mode:
- Open the View menu, choose Show/Hide, and then make sure there is a checkmark next to Edit Mode Toolbar.
The Edit Mode toolbar has four tabs:
- Normal: Choose this editing mode to see how the document will look online while you are creating it. Choose this mode to show table borders and named anchor icons. All other HTML tag icons are hidden.
- Show All Tags: Choose this mode to show all HTML tag icons.
- <HTML> Source: Choose this mode to view and edit the document as unformatted HTML source code. When you save the document, the Normal mode reappears.
- Preview: Choose this mode to display and edit the document exactly as it would appear in a browser window, except that links and JavaScript functions will not be active.
Note: JavaScript functions, frames, links, Java, embedded objects and animated GIF files are not active in any of the editing modes. To display these items in their active state, click the Browse button on the Composition toolbar to load the page into a browser window.
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Using Status Bar for Formatting Your Web Page
&brandShortName; has an innovative feature of editing/applying inline styles and applying class or id tags to selected text via its status bar. Styling using the status bar is possible in all modes except <HTML> Source viewing mode.
- Select Clicking on "Select" will select the entire text bounded by the style tag.
- Remove Tag Clicking on "Remove Tag" will remove the style tag, and in turn all the styles for that tag will be removed.
- Change Tag Using this option, the user can change the tag used for the text with the least effort. Clicking on "Change Tag" makes the text for the corresponding tag to be editable in the status bar. Type in the desired tag and press "Enter". The default properties of the tag will be applied to the text in the web page.
- Inline StylesWhile in any of the Normal, HTML
Tags, or Preview viewing modes the tags surrounding the current
position of the cursor are shown in the status bar of
&brandShortName;'s window. Style properties of any of the tags can
be changed by choosing an option from the context menu. To change
inline style properties:
- Right click on the tag you wish to edit.
- Click on "Inline Styles"
- Select the properties section you want to edit:
- Text Properties
- Border Properties
- Background Properties
- Box Properties
- Aural Properties
- Extract and create Generic Style
Secting any of the options except the last one will open the corresponding tab section from CaScadeS CSS editor (more about CaScadeS in Using Style Sheets section). With the corresponding section open, the user can define his/her own styles which will be saved according to W3C CSS coding style.
The Extract and create Generic Style option allows the user to extract the style information into an style rule and save it in the external/internal style sheet.
- Templates offers you two options, "Make Editable" and "Remove Editable Area", which can be used while working with Templates. For more information on Templates, see section Working With Templates.
- ID shows ID tags(if available) from the current style sheet applied to the document. To apply a particular tag to the selected text, just click on that ID tag.
- Class shows the class tags(if available) from the current style sheet applied to the document. To apply a class to the selected text just click on that Class tag.
- Advanced Properties allows you to use the Advanced Property editor for adding HTML attributes and Javascript to objects such as tables, images, links, etc. See the section, Advanced Property Editor, for details.
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Creating Links in &brandShortName;
Creating Links Within the Same Page
To create a link within the same page, for example a link that the reader can use to jump from one section to another, you must create an anchor (target location), and then create a link that points to the anchor. Anchors are also called named anchors.
- Click to place the insertion point at the beginning of a line where you want to create an anchor, or select some text.
- Click on anchor button
or open the Insert menu and choose Named
Anchor. You see the Named Anchor Properties dialog box. - Type a unique name for the anchor in the Anchor Name field (up to 30 characters). If you include spaces, they will be converted to underscores ( _ ). If you selected some text in step 1, this box already contains a name.
- Click OK. An anchor icon appears in your document to mark the
anchor's location:
To create the link on which readers can click to jump to the anchor:
- Select the text or image that you want to link to the anchor.
- Click the Link button or open the Insert menu and choose
Link. You see the Link Properties dialog box.
- If you're creating a link to an HTML file on your computer, click Choose File to locate it.
- If you're creating a link to a named anchor (target), select it from the list of the anchors currently available in the page.
- If you're creating a link to a level heading (for example, Heading 1 - Heading 6), select it from the list of headings currently available in the page.
- Click OK.
Note: To test the link you just created, open the File menu and choose Browse Page, then click the link.
Tip: If you did not first create named anchors, you can use the Link dialog box to create links to headings that already occur in the page.
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Creating Links to Other Pages
You can create links from your page to local pages on your own computer or on your workplace's network, or to remote pages on the Internet.
Tip: It's best to first save or publish your page before you create links to other pages. This allows &brandShortName; to automatically use relative references for links once you create them.
To create a link to another page:
- Click to place the insertion point where you want to create a link, or select the text or image that you want to link to the anchor.
- Click the Link button. You see the Link Properties dialog box.
- Define your link:
- Link text: If you've already selected an image file or text before clicking the Link button, the selected text or file will be entered here. Otherwise, you must enter the text that you want to use as the link.
- Link Location: Type the local path and filename or remote URL of the page you want to link to. If you're not sure of the path and filename for a local file, click Choose File to look for it on your hard disk or network. For remote URLs, you can copy the URL from the browser location field. Alternatively, you can select a named anchor or a heading in the current page that you want to link to.
- URL is relative to page location: If
checked, &brandShortName; converts the URL to
be relative to the page's location. This is especially
useful if you plan to publish
your pages to a web server so that others can view
them. Using relative URLs allows
you to keep all your linked files in the same place
relative to each other,
regardless of their location on your hard disk or a
web server.
Deselecting this option causes &brandShortName; to convert the URL to a full (absolute) URL. You typically use absolute URLs when linking to pages on other web servers (not stored locally on your hard disk).
If you have unsaved changes, you must first save the page in order to enable this checkbox.
- To apply additional attributes or JavaScript events, click Advanced Edit to display the Advanced Property Editor.
- Click OK.
- To test the link you just created, click the Browse button and then click the link to make sure it works as expected.
Tip: You can copy a link quickly by clicking and dragging the link from another window and then dropping it onto your page. For example, you can click and drag a link from a web page, bookmark, or Mail window and drop it onto your page. You can also right-click (Control+click on Mac OS) a link on a web page and choose Copy Link Location from the menu. Then you can paste the link location into the Link Location field in the Link Properties dialog box.
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Adding XFN Information Within Your Links
While creating links on your web page to other people's web pages, &brandShortName; provides the feature of including XFN (XHTML Friends Network) information. The XFN is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. To add XFN information:
- Right click on the link in which you want to add the XFN information.
- Select "Link Properties".
- In the "Link Properties" dialog window, click on "More Properties".
- Select the corresponding entries under "Friendship" section to be added as XFN information.
- Click on "OK".
- Click on "Save" to save changes/addition in document.
Note: Some XFN properties are radio-button type i.e. pick at most one, others are check boxes i.e. pick as many.
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Using Images as Links
You can make images, such as JPEG, GIF, or PNG files, behave like links in your pages. When the reader clicks a linked image, the browser window displays the page that the image is linked to.
- Select an image on your page.
- Click the Link button
on the toolbar, or open the Insert menu and
choose Link. - Use the Link Properties dialog box to link the image to a named anchor or heading within the page, or to a separate local or remote page.
Tip: Drag and drop a linked image from the Navigator window into a &brandShortName; window to copy both the image and the link.
Note: To remove the blue border on images used as links, open the Link Properties dialog box, click the Link tab, and uncheck "Show border around linked image".
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Removing or Discontinuing Links
To remove a link:
- Select the linked text (normally blue and underlined) or image.
- Open the Format menu and choose Remove Links.
To discontinue a link, so that text you type after the link is not included as part of the link:
- Click to place the insertion point where you want the link to end.
- Open the Format menu and choose Discontinue Link.
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Adding Pictures (Images) to Your Web Page
Inserting an Image into Your Page
You can insert GIF, JPEG, BMP, and PNG (Portable Network Graphics) images into your web page. You can also use them to create links. When you insert an image, &brandShortName; saves a reference to the image in your page.
Note: If you plan to publish your pages to the web, it's best not to use BMP images in your pages.
Tip: It's best to first save or publish your page before you insert images into it. This allows &brandShortName; to automatically use relative references to images once you insert them.
To insert an image:
- Click to place the insertion point where you want the image to appear.
- Click the Image button
on the toolbar, or open the Insert menu and
choose Image. You see the Image Properties dialog box. - Type the location and filename of the image file, or click Choose File to search for an image file on your hard drive or network.
- Type a simple description of your image as the alternate text that
will appear in text-only browsers (as well as other browsers)
when an image is loading or when image loading is disabled.
Alternatively, you can choose not to include alternate text.
- If needed, click other tabs so you can adjust the settings (for example, alignment) in the Image Properties dialog box.
Tip: To quickly insert an image: Drag and drop it onto your page.
Tip: To insert a line break after all images in a paragraph, choose Break Below Images from the Insert menu.
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Editing Image Properties
Once you've inserted an image into your page, you can edit its properties and customize the layout in your page, such as the height, width, spacing, and text alignment. If you are not currently viewing the Image Properties dialog box, follow these steps:
To edit the properties for a selected image:
- Double-click the image, or select it and click the Image button
on
the toolbar
to display the Image Properties dialog box.
- Click the Location tab to edit these properties:
- Image Location: Type the filename and location of the image file. Click Choose File to search for an image file on your hard drive or network.
- URL is relative to page location: If checked,
&brandShortName; converts the URL to
be relative to the page's location. This is especially
useful if you plan to publish
your pages on a web server so that others can view
them. Using relative URLs allows
you to keep all your linked files in the same place relative
to each other, regardless
of their location on your hard disk or a web server.
Unchecking this box causes &brandShortName; to convert the URL to a full (absolute) URL. You typically use absolute URLs when linking to images on other web servers (not stored locally on your hard disk).
If you have never saved or published the page, you must first save the page in order to enable this checkbox. (This checkbox is not available if you open the Image Properties dialog box in a message compose window.)
- Alternate Text: Enter text that will display in place of the original image; for example, a caption or a brief description of the image. It's a good practice to specify alternate text for readers who use text-only web browsers or who have image loading turned off.
- Don't use alternate text: Choose this option if the image does not require alternate text or if you don't want to include it.
- Click the Dimensions tab to edit these properties:
- Actual Size: Select this option to undo any changes you've made to the dimensions and return the image to its original size.
- Custom Size: Select this option and specify the new height and width, in pixels or as a percentage. This setting doesn't affect the original image file, just the image inserted in your page.
- Constrain: If you change the image size, it's a good idea to select this in order to maintain the image's aspect ratio (so that it doesn't appear distorted). If you choose this option, then you only need to change the height or width, but not both.
- Click the Appearance Tab to edit these properties:
- Spacing: Specify the amount of space surrounding the image; between the image and adjoining text. You can also put a solid black border around the image and specify its width in pixels. Specify zero for no border.
- Align Text to Image: If you've placed your image next to any text, select an alignment icon to indicate how you want text positioned relative to the image.
- Image Map: Click Remove to remove any image map settings.
- Click the Link tab to edit these properties:
- Enter a web page location: If you want to define a link for this image, enter the URL of a remote or local page, or select a named anchor or heading from the drop-down list. Click Choose File to search for an image file on your hard drive or network.
- URL is relative to page location: If
checked, &brandShortName; converts the URL to
be relative to the page's location. This is especially
useful if you plan to publish
your pages to a web server so that others can view
them. Using relative URLs allows
you to keep all your linked files in the same place
relative to each other,
regardless of their location on your hard disk or a
web server.
Unchecking this box causes &brandShortName; to convert the URL to a full (absolute) URL. You typically use absolute URLs when linking to images on other web servers (not stored locally on your hard disk).
If you have unsaved changes, you must first save the page in order to enable this checkbox. (This checkbox is not available if you open the Image Properties dialog box in a message compose window.)
- Show border around linked image: If checked, displays the link highlight color around the image.
- To apply additional attributes or JavaScript events, click Advanced Edit to display the Advanced Property Editor.
- Click OK to confirm your changes.
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Adding Tables to Your Web Page
Inserting a Table
Tables are useful for organizing text, pictures, and data into formatted rows and columns. To insert a table:
- Click to place the insertion point where you want the table to appear.
- Click the Table button
on
the
Composition toolbar. The Insert Table dialog box appears. - Type the number of rows and columns you want.
- (Optional) Enter a size for the table width, and select either percentage of the window or pixels.
- Enter a number for the border thickness (in pixels); enter zero
for no border.
Note: &brandShortName; uses a red dotted line to indicate tables with a zero border; the dotted line disappears when the page is viewed in a browser.
- To apply additional table attributes or JavaScript, click Advanced Edit to display the Advanced Property Editor.
- Click OK to confirm your settings and view your new table.
To change additional properties for your new table, see Changing a Table's Properties.
Tip: To insert a table within a table, open the Insert menu and choose Table.
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Changing a Table's Properties
This section describes how to modify properties that apply to an entire table as well as the rows, columns, or individual cells within a table. If you are not currently viewing the Table Properties dialog box, follow these steps:
- Select the table, or click anywhere inside it.
- Click the Table button
on
the toolbar,
or open the Table menu and choose Table Properties. The Table
Properties dialog box
contains two tabs: Table and Cells.
- Click the Table tab to edit these properties:
- Size: Use this to specify the number of rows and columns. Enter the width of the table and then choose "% of window" or "pixels." If you specify width as a percentage, the table's width changes whenever the &brandShortName; window's or browser window's width changes.
- Borders and Spacing: Use this to specify,
in pixels, the border line width,
the space between cells, and the cell padding (the space
between the contents of the
cell and its border).
Note: &brandShortName; uses a dotted outline to display tables with a zero border; the dotted line disappears when the page is viewed in a browser.
- Table Alignment: Use this to align the table within the page. Choose an option from the drop-down list.
- Caption: Choose the caption placement from the drop-down list.
- Background Color: Use this to choose a color for the table background, or leave it as transparent.
- To apply additional attributes or JavaScript events, click Advanced Edit to display the Advanced Property Editor.
- Click Apply to preview your changes without closing the dialog box, or click OK to confirm them.
To view, change, or add properties for one or more cells:
- Select the row, column, or cell, then open the Table menu and choose Table Properties. The Table Properties dialog box appears.
- Click the Cells tab to edit the following properties:
- Selection: Choose Cell, Row, or Column from the drop-down list. Click Previous or Next to move through rows, columns, or cells.
- Size: Type a number for Height and Width, and then choose "% of table" or "pixels."
- Content Alignment: Select a vertical and horizontal alignment type for the text or data inside each cell.
- Cell Style: Select Header from the drop-down list for column or row headers (which centers and bolds the text in the cell); otherwise choose Normal.
- Text Wrap: Select "Don't wrap" from the drop-down list to keep text from wrapping to the next line unless you insert a paragraph break. Otherwise, choose Wrap.
- Background Color: Select a color for the
cell background or leave it as
transparent.
Note: To apply additional attributes or JavaScript events, click Advanced Edit to display the Advanced Property Editor
- Click Apply to preview your changes without closing the dialog box, or click OK to confirm them.
Tip: To change the text color or background color of one or more selected cells or the entire table, select the cells or click anywhere in the table and then click the text color or background color icon in the Format toolbar.
Tip: To change the color of cells to the color last used, select the cell, then press Shift and click on the background color picker. This is useful when you want to use one color for individual cells.
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Adding and Deleting Rows, Columns, and Cells
&brandShortName; allows you to quickly add or delete one or more cells, columns, or rows in a table. In addition, you can set options that allow you to maintain the original rectangular structure or layout of the table while you perform editing tasks.
To add a cell, row, or column to your table:
- Click inside the table where you want to add a cell (or cells).
- Open the Table menu and then choose Insert.
- Choose one of the cell groupings. (You can also insert a new table within a table cell.)
To delete a cell, row, or column:
- Click a row, column, or cell to place the insertion point. Or, select neighboring cells to delete more than one row at a time. To select neighboring cells, drag over the cells you want to select. To select individual cells in a table, hold down the Ctrl key (Windows, Linux or Unix) or the Command key (Mac OS) and click on the cells you want to select.
- Open the Table menu and choose Delete.
- Choose the item you want to delete.
To join (or merge) a cell with the cell on its right:
- Click inside the cell on the left, open the Table menu, and choose Join with Cell to the Right.
To join (or merge) adjacent cells:
- Select adjacent cells by dragging over them.
- Open the Table menu, and choose Join Selected Cells.
To split a joined cell back into two or more cells:
- Click inside the joined cell, open the Table menu, and then choose Split Cell. &brandShortName; puts the entire contents of the joined cell into the first of the two cells.
Refer to Selecting Table Elements for information on how to select non-adjacent cells, rows, and columns.
Changing the Default Table Editing Behavior
By default, when you delete one or more cells, &brandShortName; preserves the table's structure by adding cells at the end of a row, wherever needed. This allows you to delete one or more cells but still maintain the table's original rectangular layout, or structure. Otherwise, deleting cells can result in a table with empty spaces, or whose outline appears irregular due to an uneven number of cells.
To change the default table editing behavior, begin from the &brandShortName; window:
- Open the Edit menu (Mozilla menu on Mac OS X), choose Preferences, and then choose &brandShortName;.
- Under Table Editing, set the following preference:
- Make sure that "Maintain table layout when inserting or deleting cells" is checked to ensure that you don't get an irregularly shaped table.
- Click OK.
See also Setting General &brandShortName; Preferences.
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Selecting Table Elements
You can use one of two ways to quickly select a table, cell, or group of cells:
- Click in the table, open the Table menu, choose Select, and then choose an item from the submenu. For example, to select a table, click anywhere inside the table, open the Table menu, choose Select, and then choose Table.
- Or, you can use the mouse as a selection tool:
-
- To select a group of adjacent cells: click in a cell, and then drag to select the cells you want. Drag the mouse left or right to select a row; up or down to select a column.
- To select non-adjacent cells: press Ctrl (Windows, Linux or Unix) or Command (Mac OS) and then click inside a cell. Keep pressing Ctrl (Windows, Linux or Unix) or Command (Mac OS) as you click to select additional cells.
- To extend a selection to include adjacent cells: click inside a cell and then drag over additional cells to extend the selection.
- To select one or more adjacent columns or rows: drag up or down to select the first column or row, and then drag left or right to select additional adjacent columns or rows. Press Shift and drag to the right to select an entire row. Press Shift and drag up or down to select an entire column.
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Moving, Copying, and Deleting Tables
To move a table:
- Click inside the table.
- Open the Table menu, choose Select, and then choose Table.
- To copy or move the table: Use the Edit menu's cut, copy, and paste options.
- To delete the table: Open the Table menu again, choose Delete, and then choose Table.
Converting Text into a Table
To convert text into a table:
- Select the text that you want to convert into a table. Keep in mind that &brandShortName; creates a new table row for each paragraph in the selection.
- Open the Table menu and choose Create Table from Selection. You see the Convert to Table dialog box.
- Choose the character &brandShortName; uses to separate the selection into columns, or specify a different character to use. If you choose Space as the separator for columns, choose whether or not you want &brandShortName; to ignore multiple space and treat them as one space.
- Leave "Delete separator character" checked to have &brandShortName; remove the separator character when it converts the text into a table. If you don't want &brandShortName; to delete the separator character, uncheck this option.
- Click OK.
Note: Text formatting is removed when the selected text is converted to a table.
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Using Style Sheets for Your Web Pages
Using Cascade Style Sheets
Cascade Style Sheets(CSS) can be used to style an HTML document in three ways:
- Using inline styles.
- Using internal style sheet.
- Using external style sheets.
&brandShortName; has an inbuilt style sheet editor called CaScadeS. CaScadeS can be used to produce either an internal style sheet or an external one. As opposed to inline styles, internal or external style sheets help to keep the content and style information separate.
To style the html document you are editing, CaScadeS can be started by clicking on Tools and choosing CSS Editor. CaScadeS allows two modes of style sheet editing:
- Beginner Mode: This mode allows to create rules associated to class selectors or type element selectors.
- Expert Mode: This mode allows to create rules without any restriction.
In case there is no style sheet, a new style sheet will be automatically created.
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Creating Style Sheets with &brandShortName;
Using CaScadeS, one can create either internal style sheets or external style sheets. To create an internal style sheet:
- Click on the Style elt. button
- (Optional) Fill in Media list and Title information for the style sheet.
- Click on Create Stylesheet.
To create an external stylesheet:
- Click on the Link elt. button
- Fill in the URL of the stylesheet in the right pane. A new file
will be created on the local filesystem, if it doesnot already exist.
- (Optional) Fill in Media list and Title informationfor the style sheet.
- Check the "check to create alternate stylesheet" if this is an alternate one.
Tip: Always save the html document before attaching local style sheet. Also, save document immediately before closing the CSS editor.
Tip: Use Refresh button in the left pane, if stylesheet is not immediately downloaded.
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Creating Rules for Stylesheets
After creating one or more stylesheets for the html document, rules can be created for each stylesheet individually. To use a particular stylesheet for creating or modifying rules, highlight the stylesheet in the left pane by clicking with left mouse button. The right pane will show the detials of the stylesheet in the General Tab. To create new rules:
- Click on the Rule button in the left pane.
- Right pane shows options as to what kind of rule to
create. Choose one of:
- named style (enter class name below)
- style applied to all elements of type (enter type below)
- style applied to all elements matching the following selector
- Fill in the name of the rule.
- Click on Create Style Rule button.
Rules can be defined using the styling tabs (Text, Background, Border, Box and Aural) in the right pane. To see all the definitions of a style rule, highlight the rule in the left pane and click on "General" tab in the right pane. The "General" tab shows all definitions currently applied to the rule.
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Working with Table of Contents on Your Web Page
Adding Table of Contents to Your Web Page
For an html document having different sections, e.g. an article with sections and subsections and headings for each section and subsection, it becomes difficult to navigate if all the text is in a single file. To enable easy navigation of different sections, a Table of Contents (TOC) can be generated easily with &brandShortName;. To generate a TOC for an html document:
- Use the html heading tags (h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, and h6) to label different levels of sections and subsections in the document. And save the document.
- Click on and choose "Insert". The TOC window will appear.
- Select the levels of headings used for differet sections and subsections in the document.
- Click "OK" to build the TOC.
The TOC generated by default shows all entries as numbered and they are anchored links to respective sections. Unchecking the "Number all entries in table of contents" checkbox results in bulleted section entries. And checking "Make the table of contents read only" results in sections being simple text without anchors.
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Updating or Removing Table of Contents
In case the document is changed to add more sections or subsections after building the TOC, it will not contain the new sections or subsections. To add the newly added sections and subsections, click on "Insert", then "Table of Contents" and choose "Update". The TOC will be updated to show the new entries.
To remove the TOC altogether, click on "Insert", then "Table of Contents" and choose "Remove". The TOC will be removed the html source will be cleaned automatically of any code added when TOC built.
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Working With Templates
HTML templates are useful in cases where the author has to create several pages which have similar design but different content. With &brandShortName; you can design your own templates and use them as a basis for your web pages.
Creating a Template
- To create a template:
- Click on File > New, or click on the arrow besides "New" button and select "More Options"
- Select Blank Template and click on "Create
- Add and format the content which will remain the same in every page with same methods used to edit normal text in a web page.
- For the content which will be different in the web pages,
Editable Area can be inserted by clicking on Insert > Templates >
Editable Area. Options available for an editable area are:
- Area is Optional
- Area is Repeatable
- Area is Movable
- Save the file as an .mzt Template file.
Tip: You can Remove an editable area or make an area editable using the status bar. For details refer Using Status Bar for Formatting Your Web Page.
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Using a Template
To use a Template for authoring web pages:
- Click on or use keyboard shortcut "Ctrl+N"
- Select the option "A New Document based on a Template" and choose the template to use by clicking on "Choose File"
- Click on
- Edit the content in the editable areas.
- Save the file as an html document.
Tip: Click on to detach a document from its template.
Tip: Transformation of existing document into a template and vice-versa can be achieved by checking(unchecking) the "Templates" option in Format > Page Title and Properties.
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Publishing Web Pages with &brandShortName;
If your pages exist only on your local hard disk, you can privately view your HTML pages. &brandShortName; lets you publish your pages to a remote computer called a web server.
When you publish your pages to a web server, &brandShortName; copies (uploads) your pages to a computer that lets others browse your pages. Most ISPs provide space on their web servers for web page publishing. To find a web server where you can publish your pages, ask your ISP, help desk, or system administrator.
Publishing a Document
To publish a document:
- Open the HTML document that you want to publish, or create a new &brandShortName; document.
- When you're ready to publish the document remotely, click the
Publish button
.
If you have published this document before, &brandShortName; remembers the document's publishing settings and starts publishing the document. While publishing is in progress, &brandShortName; displays a publishing status dialog box.
- If you have never published this document before, &brandShortName; displays the Settings tab in the Publish Page dialog box so you can enter information about the document's remote publishing location. See Publish Page - Settings for more information. When you're done entering information, click Publish.
- If you have never saved the document, &brandShortName; displays the Publish tab in the Publish Page dialog box, so you can enter the document's filename. See Publish Page - Publish for more information. After entering the filename, click Publish.
- To browse your published page, click the Browse button. Test the page's links and make sure there are no missing images.
- Continue editing the page as necessary. When you're ready to update the remote page with your changes, click the Publish button.
When you publish a document for the first time, &brandShortName; changes the document's file:/// URL to an http:// URL to indicate that you are now editing the published document. If you want to save the document locally (on your computer's hard disk), click the Save button. You'll be prompted to choose a filename and location on your hard disk for the document.
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Tips for Avoiding Broken Links or Missing Images
- Make sure your &brandShortName; filenames end with the .html or .htm file extension. Make sure your image filenames end with the .JPG, .GIF, or .PNG file extension. Don't use spaces or other special symbols in your filenames. Keep your filenames short and only use lowercase or uppercase letters and numbers.
- If your images appear as broken links when you browse a document on the web server, you may have forgotten to include the images when you published. Open the File menu, and choose Publish As to display the Publish Page dialog box. In the Publish tab, make sure you check "Include images and other files" and then click Publish.
For more troubleshooting tips, see Solving Common Publishing Problems.
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Updating a Published Document
To update a published document:
- In a &brandShortName; window, open the File menu, and choose
Recent Pages, then select the
document from the list.
Alternatively, browse to the location of the document you want to update by entering the document's HTTP address (the document's web address) in the Navigator browser's Location field.
- Open the File menu, and choose Edit Page.
- Edit the document as necessary.
- When you're ready to update the remote page with your changes, click Publish in &brandShortName;'s toolbar.
Tip: To delete a page or image you've published on a web server, you must use an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program. You also must use an FTP program if you want to create subdirectories or to rename files on the web server. Ask your service provider if they recommend a particular FTP program. You can usually find information on FTP programs in the Help or Support sections of your service provider's web site. FTP programs are also available from shareware sites such as ZDNet Downloads.
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Changing the Filename or Publishing Location
To change a document's filename or publishing location:
- In a &brandShortName; window, open the File menu, and choose
Recent Pages, then select the
document from the list.
Alternatively, browse to the location of the document you want to update by entering the document's HTTP address (the document's web address) in the Navigator browser's Location field.
- Open the File menu, and choose Edit Page.
- Edit the document as necessary.
- Open &brandShortName;'s File menu and choose Publish As. &brandShortName; displays the Publish tab in the Publish Page dialog box.
- Enter a different page title, if necessary.
- Enter a different filename for the page, if necessary.
- From the Site Name list, choose the publishing location you want to use. To set up a new publishing location, click New Site. See Publish Page - Settings for more information.
- Click Publish to save the document to the new location.
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Creating a New Publishing Site
If you plan to publish documents to more than one remote location, you can set up &brandShortName; to save the publishing information for each remote site you use, so that you don't have to enter it each time you want to publish.
To create a new publishing site, begin from a &brandShortName; window:
- Open the Edit menu and choose Publishing Site Settings. &brandShortName; displays the Publish Settings dialog box.
- Click New Site.
- For "Site Name," enter the nickname by which you want to refer to
this publishing site.
For example, if you will use the new site to publish documents related to the "Meteor" project, you might want to use the site name "Meteor". Site names remind you about the types of documents you publish at each site.
- For "Publishing address," enter the complete URL provided to you
by your ISP, system administrator, or web hosting service. This URL
must begin with either ftp:// or http://.
The publishing address specifies the location where documents are published (uploaded) at this site. If you are not sure what to enter, ask your ISP or system administrator.
- For "HTTP address of your home page," enter the complete URL that
you would enter in the Navigator browser to view pages at this
site. Do not include a filename or subdirectory as part of the URL.
This URL must always begin with http://. In some cases, this URL is the same as the publishing address. If you are not sure what to enter, ask your ISP or system administrator, or else leave it blank.
- For user name, enter the user name you use to log in to your ISP or web hosting service.
- For password, enter the password for your user name.
- Select "Save Password" to save your password securely using Password Manager so that you don't have to enter it each time you publish pages at this site.
- Click OK.
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Changing the Default Publishing Site
If you have set up more than one publishing site, but you typically use only one site for most of your publishing needs, you can designate the site you use most often as the default publishing site. &brandShortName; will use the default publishing site for all documents that you publish, unless you specifically choose an alternate site.
Regardless of how many sites you've set up, you can always publish a document to a different site by choosing Publish As from &brandShortName;'s File menu. See Changing the Filename or Publishing Location for more information.
To choose the default publishing site, begin from a &brandShortName; window:
- Open the Edit menu, and choose Publishing Site Settings. &brandShortName; displays the Publish Settings dialog box.
- Select a publishing site from the list.
If you only have one publishing site set up, &brandShortName; uses that one as the default site.
- Click Set as Default.
- Click OK to confirm your changes.
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Deleting a Publishing Site
Deleting a publishing site removes the site's settings from &brandShortName;. If you later wish to publish to the site, you must re-enter the site's settings.
To delete a publishing site's settings, begin from a &brandShortName; window:
- Open the Edit menu, and choose Publishing Site Settings. &brandShortName; displays the Publish Settings dialog box.
- Select a publishing site from the list.
- Click Remove Site.
&brandShortName; only removes the site's settings; the remote site itself is not affected.
- Click OK to confirm your changes.
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Publishing Settings
This section describes &brandShortName;'s publishing settings. For information on &brandShortName;'s general and new page settings, see &brandShortName; Preferences.
Publish Page - Publish
The Publish Page - Publish tab lets you specify where you want to publish a document. These settings apply to the current document.
If you are not already viewing the Publish Page - Publish tab, follow these steps:
- Open the File menu and choose Publish As. The Publish Page dialog box appears.
- Click the Publish tab.
- Site Name: Lists all the publishing sites you've created, so you can choose the site that you want to publish to. To create a new site, click New Site.
- Page Title: Specifies the document's page title as it appears in the browser window's title bar when you view the page in the browser. The document's page title also appears in your list of bookmarks if you bookmark the page.
- Filename: Specifies the document's filename. Make sure you include the .html or .htm extension in the filename.
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Warning: If a file on the remote site you're publishing to has the same filename as one you're uploading, the newly uploaded file will replace the existing one. You will not be asked to confirm the action.
- Site subdirectory for this page: If you leave this blank, &brandShortName; publishes the page to the main (root) publishing directory at this site. If you want to publish the page to a remote subdirectory that resides underneath the main publishing directory at this site, enter the name of the subdirectory or choose it from the list. &brandShortName; keeps track of the locations you type here, so you can select from a list of remote locations you've previously used. Keep in mind that subdirectory names are case-sensitive.
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Note: The site subdirectory you choose must already exist at the remote server.
- Include images and other files: If checked, &brandShortName; publishes any images and other files referenced by this page. You can choose to publish these files to the same location as the page, or else you can choose to publish these files into a remote subdirectory that exists underneath the main publishing directory.
Tip: To create remote subdirectories or delete published pages or images, you must use an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program. Ask your service provider if they recommend a particular FTP program. You can usually find information on FTP programs in the Help or Support sections of your service provider's web site. FTP programs are also available from shareware sites such as ZDNet Downloads.
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Publish Page - Settings
The Publish Page - Settings tab lets you specify your login information for the remote publishing site, as well as the publishing settings for the remote site. These settings apply to the current document and any other files you publish to this location.
If you are not already viewing the Publish Page - Settings tab, follow these steps:
- Open the File menu and choose Publish As. The Publish Page dialog box appears.
- Click the Settings tab.
- Site Name: Specifies the nickname you want to use for this publishing site. Enter a short name that will help you identify this publishing site.
- Publishing address: Specifies the complete URL provided to you by your ISP or system administrator. This URL should begin with either ftp:// or http://. This name is often referred to as the "host name" or the "host server name".
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The publishing address specifies the location where documents are published (uploaded) at this site. If you are not sure what to enter, ask your ISP or system administrator.
- HTTP address of your home page: Specifies the complete address of your publishing home directory. This is the web address of the home page at your web site. Do not include a filename or subdirectory as part of the URL.
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This URL must always begin with http://. In some cases, this URL is the same as the publishing address. If you are not sure what to enter, ask your ISP or system administrator, or else leave it blank.
- User name: Specifies the user name you use to log into your ISP or network.
- Password: Specifies the password for your user name.
- Save Password: Select this to encrypt and save your password securely using Password Manager so that you don't have to enter it each time you publish pages at this site.
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Publish Settings
The Publish Settings dialog box lets you create, edit, and delete publishing site settings, and also lets you set the default publishing site.
If you are not already viewing the Publish Settings dialog box, follow these steps:
- Open the Edit menu and choose Publishing Site Settings. &brandShortName; displays the Publish Settings dialog box.
- New Site: Lets you specify settings for a new publishing site. &brandShortName; adds the name of the new publishing site to the list of available publishing sites.
- Set as Default: Sets the selected publishing site as the default publishing site. Typically, the default publishing site is the remote location that you most often use for publishing documents. All documents you create or edit will be published to the default publishing site, unless you specifically choose an alternate site in the Publish Page dialog box.
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To publish a document to a different remote location, open the File menu and choose Publish As to choose a different publishing destination.
- Remove Site: Removes the selected site and its settings from &brandShortName;.
- Site Name: Specifies the name by which you want to refer to this publishing site.
- Publishing address: Specifies the complete URL provided to you by your ISP or system administrator. This URL should begin with either ftp:// or http://.
-
The publishing address specifies the location where documents are published (uploaded) at this site. If you are not sure what to enter, ask your ISP or system administrator.
- HTTP address of your homepage: Specifies the HTTP address of your publishing home directory. Do not include a filename or subdirectory as part of the URL.
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This URL must always begin with http://. In some cases, this URL is the same as the publishing address. If you are not sure what to enter, ask your ISP or system administrator, or else leave it blank.
- User name: Specifies the user name you use to log in to your ISP or network.
- Password: Specifies the password for your user name.
- Save Password: Select this to save your password securely using Password Manager so you don't have to enter it each time you publish pages at this site.
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Solving Common Publishing Problems
If any of your files fails to publish, the Publishing Status dialog box displays an error message that can help you determine what went wrong and how to fix it. Click the Troubleshooting button in the Publishing Status dialog box to get help on solving your publishing problem.
If you are still unable to publish a file, save the file to your hard disk by opening &brandShortName;'s File menu, and choosing Save. You can then open the file at a later time to try to publish it. To quickly locate the file later, open &brandShortName;'s File menu, and choose Recent Pages.
Verifying Your Publishing Settings
To verify your publishing settings:
- Close the Publishing Status dialog box, if it is open.
- Open the Edit menu and choose Publishing Site Settings.
- In the Publish Settings dialog box, confirm that the site settings are correct for the site you are trying to publish to. If you're not sure, check with your ISP or web hosting service.
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- Verify that you correctly entered the publishing settings. You may have accidentally mistyped one of the settings.
- Verify that you entered the correct publishing
address. Web hosting services or ISPs may refer to the
publishing address as the "server name", the "hostname", or the
"server/host". They often specify the publishing location as
ftp.myisp.com/username, where username is your user
name.
For the publishing address to be correct, you must precede the publishing location with either ftp:// or http://. For example, the correct publishing address for the above-mentioned site would be ftp://ftp.myisp.com/username.
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Checking Your Filenames
Examine the names of any files that failed to publish. Make sure that the filenames:
- Use only numbers or lowercase or uppercase letters. While
it's acceptable to create filenames that use uppercase letters, you
can avoid potential errors in later locating the published file if you
only use lowercase letters in your filenames.
When you publish files to a web server, filenames become case-sensitive on the web server. It may be harder for you to remember files names that use only uppercase letters or that use a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters.
For example, when you try to locate a published file by typing the filename's web address into Navigator's Location field, you must enter the filename exactly as you created it, using the same combination of uppercase and lowercase letters.
- Don't use punctuation characters or spaces. Underscores ( _ ) or hyphens ( - ) are OK.
- End with .html or .htm (for &brandShortName; filenames).
- Use less than 32 characters.
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Fixing Publishing Errors
If one or more of your files fails to publish, look at the messages &brandShortName; displays in the Publishing Status area of the Publishing dialog box. You can use these error messages to help determine what went wrong and what to do to fix the problem.
Error Message:
or
X of Y files failed to publishError Description: One or more image files or CSS files failed to publish because &brandShortName; could not find them. Some typical reasons might be:
- The file location you typed is incorrect.
- The file's location on the web is not accessible.
- The file's location was changed or the file was deleted or moved to another location.
Possible Solutions:
- Look for broken images in the page you are trying to
publish. Broken images will
appear with this icon
in the page. To correct the image's address, double-click the
broken image to
display the Image Properties dialog box so you can enter the
correct address. - Remove the broken image from the page by selecting it (click once on the image), and then pressing Backspace or Delete on your keyboard.
- If the image is unavailable because the server where the image resides is inaccessible, try publishing the page at a later time.
- If the missing file is a CSS file, you must first verify the correct location of the CSS file. To fix the file's address in &brandShortName;, click the HTML Source tab and edit the file's location in the HTML source code. You should only edit the HTML source if you are familiar with HTML tags.
Error Message:
or
The filename filename is already in use by another subdirectoryError Description: You specified the name of a remote subdirectory that does not exist at the publishing site. &brandShortName; can only publish to a remote subdirectory that already exists at the publishing location. Or, you specified a filename that is identical to the name of an existing subdirectory at the publishing site.
For example, in the Publish Page dialog box, under the Publish tab:
- for "Site subdirectory for this page", you may have typed the name of a subdirectory that does not exist at the publishing location.
- you checked "Include images and other files," and then you typed the name of a subdirectory that does not exist at the publishing location.
- one of the files you are attempting to publish has the same name as a subdirectory at the publishing site.
Possible Solutions:
- Use a separate FTP program if you want to create, rename, or delete subdirectories at the publishing site. Ask your service provider if they recommend a particular FTP program. You can usually find information on FTP programs in the Help or Support sections of your service provider's web site. FTP programs are also available from shareware sites such as ZDNet Downloads.
- Don't use subdirectory names that end with ".html" or ".htm". Only your &brandShortName; filenames should end with ".html" or ".htm".
- Subdirectory names are case-sensitive, so be sure to enter a subdirectory name exactly as it appears at the publishing location.
Error Message:
Error Description: This error can have many causes. For example:
- Your publishing site settings may not be correct.
- Your Internet connection may have been lost.
- Your modem or other equipment that you use to connect to the Internet might not be functioning correctly.
- The web server that you are trying to publish to might be unavailable due to a technical problem or to an unknown circumstance.
- Your ISP or web hosting service may be experiencing technical problems.
Possible Solutions:
- Verify that your publishing settings are correct and that you entered them correctly. See Verifying Your Publishing Settings for more information.
- Make sure your Internet connection is working by attempting to view a web page using the Navigator browser. For example, confirm that you can successfully view the page http://www.mozilla.org.
- If your Internet connection is not working, verify that all hardware, telephone connections, modems, and network connections are functioning properly.
- Use the Navigator browser to try to view a page at the web site you are attempting to publish to. If you can successfully view other web sites but cannot view a page at the publishing site, your ISP or web hosting service may be experiencing technical problems.
- Try publishing again later. Your ISP, web hosting service, or the web server may be experiencing temporary technical difficulties.
Error Message:
Error Description: You are attempting to publish to a location that you are not authorized to use. You can only publish to sites where you have been granted access by your ISP or web hosting service.
Possible Solutions:
- Verify that you entered the correct user name and password in the Publishing Site Settings dialog box, or in the Publish tab of the Publish dialog box.
- Contact your ISP to find out where you can publish your pages at their site.
- Find a web hosting service that you can use to publish your pages. In the Navigator browser, search for "web hosting".
- Use &brandShortName; My Webpage http://mywebpage.netscape.com/ to host your web pages, up to 20 megabytes for free.
Error Message:
Error Description: You are attempting to publish, but your &brandShortName; Internet connection is currently in the "offline" state. Your Internet connection must be in the "online" state (connected to the Internet) in order to publish your pages.
Verify that your Internet connection is currently offline by
looking at the online/offline
icon in the lower right corner of any &brandShortName; window. If
you are currently offline, the
icon appears as 
.
Possible Solutions:
- Click the online/offline icon to go online. In the online state,
the icon should look
like this:
. - Make sure your Internet connection is working by attempting to view a web page using the Navigator browser. For example, confirm that you can successfully view the page http://www.mozilla.org.
Error Message:
Error Description: The remote web server's hard disk is full, or you may have exceeded the amount of disk space allocated to you by your ISP or web hosting service.
Possible Solutions:
- Use a separate FTP program to delete unnecessary files at your publishing site. Ask your service provider if they recommend a particular FTP program. You can usually find information on FTP programs in the Help or Support sections of your service provider's web site. FTP programs are also available from shareware sites such as ZDNet Downloads.
- Find out from your ISP or web hosting service about increasing your disk space allocation, or switch to a different service that can satisfy your needs.
- If the web server is located at your company or school, contact the network administrator to find out if you can publish to a different location that has more disk space, or if you can request that additional disk space be allocated to your current publishing location.
Error Message:
Error Description: The number of characters in the filename or the subdirectory name is not supported by the web server computer that you are trying to publish to.
Possible Solutions:
- Limit the length of your filenames and subdirectory names to less than 32 characters. Some operating systems do not support names longer than 32 characters.
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&brandShortName; Keyboard Shortcuts
Using Shortcuts
This document uses the following format for listing shortcuts:
Example:
| Command | WindowsMac OSUnix/Linux |
|---|---|
| Copy | Ctrl+CCmd+C |
To perform a command, press the accelerator key CtrlCmd and the press the shortcut combination key C once (while keeping the accelerator key pressed).
Tip: The plus sign (+) means that you must press two keys surrounding the plus sign at the same time. If there is more than one plus sign (such as Ctrl+Shift+C), it means that all three buttons surrounding the plus sign must be pressed at the same time.
Abbreviations:
- CtrlCmd = Control KeyCommand key on the Mac OS Keyboard
Note: Some keyboard shortcuts perform different functions based on cursor location (focus). For example, if you press Home on Windows while viewing a web page, &brandShortName; will move to the top of the web page. However, if you press Home on Windows while the cursor is in a text field, the cursor will go to the beginning of the text field.
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General &brandShortName; Shortcuts
| Command | WindowsUnix/LinuxMacOS |
|---|---|
| Open File | CtrlCmd+O |
| Open New Page/Template | CtrlCmd+N |
| Open New Tab | CtrlCmd+T |
| Save File | CtrlCmd+S |
| Copy | CtrlCmd+C |
| Paste | CtrlCmd+V |
| Cut | CtrlCmd+X |
| Select All | CtrlCmd+A |
| Close Window | CtrlCmd+W |
| Delete Next Word | CtrlCmd+Del |
| Go Up One Page | Page Up |
| Go Down One Page | Page Down |
| Go Up One Line | Up Arrow |
| Go Down One Line | Down Arrow |
| Undo | CtrlCmd+Z |
| Redo | CtrlCmd+Shift+Z |
| Find | CtrlCmd+F |
| Find Again | Ctrl+G or F3Cmd+G |
| Find Previous | Ctrl+Shift+F? |
| Open Context Menu | Shift+F10Ctrl+Space |
| Open Main Menu (switches to the first drop-down menu at the top of the window) | Alt orF10Controlled through keyboard preference in Control Panel |
| Move to beginning of line (in a text editing field) | HomeCmd+Left ArrowCtrl+A |
| Move to end of line (in a text editing field) | EndCmd+Right ArrowCtrl+E |
| Switch to Next Tab (when using Tabbed Browsing with more than one tab) | Ctrl+Page Down |
| Switch to Previous Tab (when using Tabbed Browsing with more than one tab) | Ctrl+Page Up |
| Close Tab | CtrlCmd+W |
| Exit &brandShortName; | CtrlCmd+Q |
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&brandShortName; Composition Shortcuts
These are the shortcuts needed for editing html pages with &brandShortName;.
| Command | WindowsUnix/LinuxMacOS |
|---|---|
| Open Web Location | CtrlCmd+Shift+L |
| Publish | CtrlCmd+Shift+S |
| Text Zoom - Smaller | CtrlCmd+- |
| Text Zoom - Larger | CtrlCmd+= OR CtrlCmd++ (plus) |
| Text Zoom - 100% | CtrlCmd+O |
| Insert/Edit Link | CtrlCmd+L |
| Text style Bold | CtrlCmd+B |
| Text style Italic | CtrlCmd+I |
| Text style Underline | CtrlCmd+U |
| Increase Indent | CtrlCmd+[ |
| Decrease Indent | CtrlCmd+] |
| Discontinue Text Styles | CtrlCmd+Shift+Y |
| Discontinue Link | CtrlCmd+Shift+K |
| Select Row/Column | CtrlCmd+Drag |
| Select Cells(s) | CtrlCmd+Click (drag to select block of cells, or continue clicking to select individual cells) |
| Site Manager | F9 |
| Start Spell Check | Ctrl+KCmd+K |
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Help Window Shortcuts
These shortcuts are available from Help windows.
| Command | WindowsMac OSUnix/Linux |
|---|---|
| Navigate Links within Content Pane (right pane) | Tab |
| Toggle the visibility of Sidebar | F9 |
| Increase Text Size | CtrlCmd+= OR CtrlCmd+Shift++ (plus) |
| Decrease Text Size | CtrlCmd+- (minus) |
| Switch between Content Pane and Search/Contents/Index/Glossary (toggle) | F6 |
| Navigate Index Terms (while Index Pane is selected) | Up/Down Arrow |
| Scroll Pane (Content, Table of Contents, or Index) | Up/Down Arrow |
| Expand/Collapse Table of Contents Tree Structure | Right/Left Arrow |
| Print Page | Ctrl+PCmd+P |
| Go Back to Previous Page | AltCmd+Left Arrow |
| Go Forward One Page | AltCmd+Right Arrow |
| Close &brandShortName; Help Window | CtrlCmd+W |
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&brandShortName; Preferences
&brandShortName; has several important settings in the Preferences panel. Users can set the preferences depending on their requirements and &brandShortName; will respect the setting everytime the user starts and uses it.
This section describes the settings in the &brandShortName; preferences panel. If you are not currently viewing the panel, follow these steps:
- Click on file menu (Mozilla menu on Mac OS X) items to open Preferences(Options) panel.
- Click the &brandShortName; category to view the corresponding settings available for customization.
For information on &brandShortName;'s publishing settings, see Publishing Settings section.
General Settings
General preferences allow you to specify settings for saving files and for table editing. These settings apply to every document you create.
If you are not already viewing the &brandShortName; general preferences, follow these steps:
- Open the Edit menu (Mozilla menu on Mac OS X) and choose Preferences.
- Click the General category on the category sidebar.
Recent Pages Menu
Maximum number of pages listed: Specify the maximum number of pages that are listed under Recent Pages in the File menu.
When Saving or Publishing Pages
- Retain original source formatting: This option preserves line breaks and the page's original formatting for the HTML source code. Select this if you want to preserve white space (extra lines, tabs, etc.) that makes the HTML source code more readable. This preference does not affect how your pages appear in a browser window.
- Reformat HTML source: This option reformats the HTML source code to make it more readable, by inserting line breaks and indentation. This preference does not affect how your pages appear in a browser window.
- Save images and other associated files when saving pages: If checked, all images, JavaScript (JS), Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), and other associated files are saved in the same location as the document when the document is saved for the first time or when the document is saved to a new location. If unchecked, only the HTML file is saved.
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For example, when editing a remote page, this setting ensures that all related files associated with the remote page will be saved locally when you save the page to your hard disk.
- Always show Publish dialog when publishing pages: If checked, &brandShortName; always displays the Publish Page dialog box when you click the Publish button or choose Publish from the File menu. If not checked, &brandShortName; only displays the Publish Page dialog box if it needs more information in order to publish the page.
Table Editing
Maintain table layout when inserting or deleting cells: Select this if you want &brandShortName; to always preserve the table's layout (that is, keep it in a rectangular shape) by adding cells where needed. If you deselect this option, when you delete one or more cells, &brandShortName; removes the cell border as well, which can result in a table with empty spaces, or an outline that appears irregular due to an uneven number of cells.
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Use CSS styles instead of HTML elements and attributes: Enables the use of Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) formatting in your &brandShortName; documents. With this preference enabled, &brandShortName; generates HTML 4.01 formatting with CSS inline styles for elements.
If this preference is not enabled, &brandShortName; generates HTML 4.01 formatting, but does not use CSS styles.
Compared to HTML, HTML with CSS formatting is more portable, more maintainable, and more compatible when viewed with different browsers. If you enable this preference and then edit a document created without CSS, &brandShortName; replaces the edited elements with CSS styles.
If you enable CSS styles, you can choose a text highlight color for selected text using the text highlight color button on the Format toolbar. You can also choose a color background for any element on the page. (These features are not available if this preference is not enabled.)
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Always open a document in a new tab: Select this if you want to open documents in new tabs when using the Site Manager. If unchecked, double clicking on filenames in the Site Manager will open the files in new windows.
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Fonts
Fonts displayed in &brandShortName; are either the program defaults or the user can define their own.
Fonts for
Font family can be defined in the Fonts for: section of &brandShortName; Preferences. To change the default typeface:
- From the Fonts for drop-down list, choose a character set. For instance, to set default fonts for the Western (Roman) character set, choose Western.
- Select whether proportional text should be serif (like "Times New Roman") or sans-serif (like "Arial"). Then specify the font size you want for proportional text.
- Specify the font to use for Serif, Sans-serif, Cursive Fantasy and Monospace font families. You can also change the size for Monospace fonts.
You can also choose the Minimum font size you want to display. Setting a minimum font size can be helpful when editing pages with very small fonts which would be hard to read if this option is not set.
You can also specify the display resolution, which is normally 96 dpi. You can set it to one of the predefined options e.g. 72dpi, or 96dpi or you can either set it to System Setting or set it manually using the Other... option.
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New Page Settings
New page settings allow you to specify settings for colors and background images that apply to every document you create.
If you are not already viewing the New Page Settings, follow these steps:
- Open the Tools menu (Mozilla menu on Mac OS X) and choose Preferences.
- Click on the New Page Settings icon on the category sidebar
Author
Enter your name. This will add your name to the HTML source code for each new page you create. Your name will be added in the <head> section of the web page and will not be visible on the web page.
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- Language: Users can select which language to use as default when creating new web documents. Choose from either HTML4.0 or XHTML1.0.
- DTD: Select the DTD to be used as default when creating new web documents. Options of defining the document as Transitional or Strict are available.
Default Page Appearance
- Reader's default colors: Select this if you always want your pages to use the color settings from the viewer's browser for text and link elements.
- Use custom colors: Select this if you always want to specify the colors that are applied to text and link elements. Then for each element, select a color by clicking the color button next to each element which will open the color-picker to select the color easily.
- Background image: Type the location and name
of an image file, or click Choose File to locate the image file on
your hard disk or network.
Note: Background images are tiled and override background color.
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To change the author name for an individual page: Open the Format menu and choose Page Title and Properties.
To change the page colors and background image for an individual page: Open the Format menu and choose Page Colors and Background.
Internationalization
- Language: Choose the language in which the html documentsupposed to be written in.
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For example if the document is written in Canadian French, selecting "French/Canada[fr-ca]" will indicate the browser that the document is written in Canadian French. And the html source will contain <html lang="fr-ca"> as an indicator of document language.
- Writing Direction: Choose the direction of writing text depending on the language you are using in your document. This solves the problems of users creating html pages in languages with right-to-left direction, for example, Arabic, Urdu, etc.
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To change the Language specification for an individual page: Open the Format menu and choose Page Title and Properties, and change language in the Internationalization section.
To change the Writing Direction of an individual page: Open the Format menu and choose Page Title and Properties, and change language in the Internationalization section.
- Character Set: Character sets determine how the bytes that represent the text of your HTML document are translated to readable characters. With this option you can choose the character set you want to use for your web page. By default, the ISO-8859-1 character set is used, but you can use other options like UTF-8, ISO-8859-15, etc or a user defined character set.
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Advanced Settings
Connection
This section describes how to use the Proxies preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:
- Open the Edit menu (&brandShortName; menu on Mac OS X) and choose Preferences.
- Under the Advanced category, click Proxies. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to expand the list.)
The Proxies preferences panel allows you to set up &brandShortName; to use a proxy:
Before you start: Ask your network administrator if you have a proxy configuration file or for the names and port numbers of the proxy.
- Direct connection to the Internet: Choose this if you don't want to use a proxy.
- Manual proxy configuration: Choose this if
you don't have a proxy location (URL).
- HTTP Proxy, SSL Proxy, FTP Proxy, Gopher Proxy: Type the name or numeric IP address of the proxy server. Type the port in the Ports field.
- SOCKS Host: Type the name or numeric IP
address of the proxy server. Type the port in the Ports field.
- SOCKS v4, SOCKS v5: When entering a SOCK Host, select "SOCKS v4" or "SOCKS v5," depending on what version of SOCKS is used for the proxy.
- No Proxy for: Type the domains and/or IP address that you do not want to use a proxy for. Separate each entry with a comma. (Example: .yourcompany.com, .yourcompany.co.nz, 192.168.1.0/24)
- Automatic proxy configuration URL: Choose this if you have a proxy configuration file or URL, then type the configuration URL.
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Return Key Behaviour
The option "Return in a paragraph always creates new paragraph" defines the behaviour of the return key. Choosing it creates a new paragraph if you hit the "Return" key while typing in a paragraph. Without this option <br> tags are added for carriage returns.
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Real-time Spellcheck
Checking the option "Underline misspelled words" will enable the real-time spell checker built into &brandShortName; to underline misspelled words, thus giving the user a visual clue to recheck the spellings.
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Special Characters
This options allow the user to choose which special characters are coded as entities by &brandShortName;. Choose one of the option:
- Only & < > ' and non-breakable whitespace
- The above and Latin-1 letters
- All characters having an entity equivalence in the HTML 4.0 specification
- Use &#..; notation for all non-ASCII characters
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Customizing &brandShortName;
Toolbar Customiation
&brandShortName; has toolbars which can be customized by the user to suite their likings. The users can keep their most frequently used buttons on the toolbars and hide those rarely used in effect making it easier to use, and giving the users the satisfaction to tailor the look of &brandShortName; according to their preferences.
How to Customize Toolbars
To open the toolbar customize window, Click on and select the toolbar you want to customize. Or you can right-click with the mouse on the toolbar you want to edit and select "Customize Toolbar".
To customize the toolbars
- You can click-and-drag a button, separator, flexible space, or space item to the toolbar where you want to add that item.
- You can drag items (button, space, flexible space or separator) from the toolbar and drop them back in customizing window.
- You can also change the look of the toolbar buttons (Main Toolbar) by either selecting Icons and Text, Icons or only Text to be displayed.
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Enhancing &brandShortName; Functionality
&brandShortName; has an inbuilt mechanism to enhance its already powerful functions. New functionality can be added to &brandShortName; by adding extensions. Extentions are small programs which give users new features or functions when installed in &brandShortName;. Users can choose to install the extensions they want. Thus extensions allow users to have a customized installation of &brandShortName;. To install an extension:
- Download the extention to your computer and save it in a convenient location. Most of the extensions can be downloaded from &brandShortName; web site.
- Open Extension Manager(EM) by clicking on . The EM will list all the installed extensions (if any).
- Click on Install button to install the extension you just downloaded.
- Select the extension by browsing to it in the file system browser window and click on the Open button.
- Click the Install Now button in the Software Installation window.
- After installation in complete, restart &brandShortName; to start using the features added by the newly installed extension.
You should regularly check for updates for the installed extensions with the Extension Manager. Updates usually improve the features offered by the extensions and resolve problems in older versions.
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&brandShortName; Tutorial
&brandShortName; is an open source What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get(WYSIWYG) complete web authoring system. It is based on Gecko, the Mozilla rendering engine. &brandShortName; is completely free and can be downloaded from &brandShortName; website.
Scope of This Tutorial
This tutorial is designed for beginners, who are new to web page designing with a WYSIWYG editor. The tutorial provides just enough help so as to get you started with using &brandShortName; for your web page design purposes. It is not an introduction to HTML, XHTML, CSS, etc. coding. Its only aim is to give you a kick start on how to use &brandShortName;.
The manual does not even cover all the basic aspects of HTML in detail. Yes, this is a short tutorial and some basic albeit unimportant things have been left out. You are encouraged to find out about them yourself. Also the tutorial covers just an introduction on how to use cascading style sheets with the inbuilt editor, CaScadeS.
For those of you who are more interested in learning about HTML, CSS, etc in detail you can go to the W3 Consortium website. There you will find detailed information about various standards maintained by them. You can also do a search on the WWW or refer to one of the many books available on learning HTML.
In This Tutorial
This tutorial first introduces you to &brandShortName;'s User Interface. This is followed by a basic formatting section. Next section, tells you how to insert elements like images, tables, and forms in your document. Then we have small section devoted to styling your document using CSS. The document concludes with instructions for publishing your document to a web server.
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Introduction to the User Interface
&brandShortName;'s File Menu contains menu items for all major operations possible while using it. For full detailed reference read the Menu Reference page. &brandShortName;'s tool bar user interface consists of:
Composition Toolbar
The Composition Toolbar consists of buttons for the most used major operations. Below is the a snapshot of the default Composition Toolbar with text below each button indicating the respective button's function.
Format Toolbar
The Format Toolbar is a very useful tool while editing web pages with &brandShortName;. With the Format Toolbar you can apply paragraph format, choose a font, change foreground or background colour, increase or decrease size, and emphasize a block of text. You can also create ordered or unordered lists and justify a block of text to left, right or centre. To know which button does what just hover your mouse over the button and a tool tip will appear indicating the function of the button.
Tab Browser Toolbar
&brandShortName; allows you to simultaneously edit multiple web documents using different tabs for each opened document. Having multiple tabs gives a cleaner look to your desktop as it is not cluttered when multiple windows are used for each document. As a visual indicator a "red floppy icon" icon appears for pages which have been edited but not saved yet.
Edit Mode Toolbar
The Edit Mode Toolbar indicates the viewing mode which is presently active for the current document. Available viewing modes are the Normal view, HTML Tags view, HTML source view and the Preview mode. You can easily change your viewing mode by simply clicking any of the other three with the mouse.
Status Toolbar
&brandShortName;'s status bar shows the position of the cursor with respect to the HTML tag hierarchy. You can easily edit/assign the properties of any particular tag in the status bar just by right clicking and choosing the desired option. Simple left-click of the mouse on a tag in status bar selects the text surrounded by that tag.
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Starting a New Document
You can start a new document by either clicking on the "New" button on the composition toolbar or by clicking File > New and select "Blank Document" and then click on "Create". In case you want to edit an existing file use File > Open and choose the file you want to edit. For detailed instructions, refer to Starting a New Page section in the &brandShortName; Help documentation.
You can also start a new document which is a template instead of a normal html file. Templates are used to make website management easier as the maintainer will only need to edit the text for a particular page and not worry about the design as it is controlled by the template. This tutorial will not go further into creating and using templates. Further information about templates can be obtained from the Working with Templates section of &brandShortName; Help documentation.
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Basic Formatting of the Document
We will use the text given in the next section in the new document to follow the formatting help in this tutorial. The text will used as a base to learn basic formatting functions available in &brandShortName;. Copy the text from the following section and paste it in your new document.
Tutorial Text
Corbett National Park
Corbett National Park, named in the memory of Jim Corbett, was created in 1938 and was the first national park to be established in Asia. It is situated in the northern state of Uttranchal in India. It has an area of 512 sq. km. The combined area of Corbett National Park, Sonandi Wildlife sanctuary and Reserve Forest areas summing up to 1288 sq. km. constitute a bigger project called Corbett Tiger Reserve.
The most famous animals of Corbett National Park are the Bengal Tiger and the Asiatic elephant. It is also a home to other animals like etc etc. Situated at the junction of the Garhwal and Kumaon hill regions it also boasts of the combination of cultures of people of both regions.
Jim Corbett
Jim Corbett, (1825-19), lived in Kaladhungi. His house has been converted into a museum by the government as a dedication to his life and times. He was a naturalist, conservationalist and an avid photographer. Born on 25th July 1875, he grew up in Kaladhungi and Nanital. After fighting for the British army in the WWI, he came back to India and settled in Kaladhungi with his sister, Maggie. He was called up several times by village people and the government to get rid of man-eating tigers and leopards.
Visiting Corbett National Park
General Information
Altitude: 385-1100m above sea level
Annual Rainfall: 1400mm - 2800mm
Temperature range: 4C in winter to 42C in summer.
Open for tourists from 15 November to 15 June.
Getting there:
The head quarters of Corbett Tiger Reserver are at Ramnagar. By road it is connected to Delhi, Moradabad, Bareilly and Nanital. State transport buses ply from Delhi, Moradabad and Haldwani to Ramnagar. By rail tourists can reach Ramnagar by taking a train from New Delhi.
Formatting the text
The first thing we will take care of are the headings and subheadings. Select the text "Corbett National Park" at the top of the document and click on the Body Text drop down menu on the Format Toolbar and select Heading 1. The text will be styled according to the default Heading Level-1 style. Similarly, select the text "Visiting Corbett National Park" and make it a level-2 heading.
The second you might want to do is to select entire paragraphs in your text and mark them paragraph following same procedure for the headings. In the given text this has already done to make the text more presentable, but otherwise marking paragraphs separately is a good practice.
You can also style important words or phrases using the bold(B), italic(I), or underline(U) buttons on the Format Toolbar, as has been done in this line. Several other options of formatting your text are available from the Format Toolbar or via the Format menu on the File Menu toolbar. Go ahead and try to use a few options, you will learn a few trick this way. If you mess up, don't worry, just click "Ctrl+Z" once to undo your last action. For detailed instructions about all the ways possible to format text for a web page, see Formatting your Web Pages section in &brandShortName; Help documentation.
At this stage, your tutorial text should look similar to this:
Corbett National Park, named in the memory of Jim Corbett, was created in 1938 and was the first national park to be established in Asia. It is situated in the northern state of Uttranchal in India. It has an area of 512 sq. km. The combined area of Corbett National Park, Sonandi Wildlife sanctuary and Reserve Forest areas summing up to 1288 sq. km. constitute a bigger project called Corbett Tiger Reserve.
The most famous animals of Corbett National Park are the Bengal Tiger and the Asiatic elephant. It is also a home to other animals like etc etc. Situated at the junction of the Garhwal and Kumaon hill regions it also boasts of the combination of cultures of people of both regions.
Jim Corbett, (1825-19), lived in Kaladhungi. His house has been converted into a museum by the government as a dedication to his life and times. He was a naturalist, conservationalist and an avid photographer. Born on 25th July 1875, he grew up in Kaladhungi and Nanital. After fighting for the British army in the WWI, he came back to India and settled in Kaladhungi with his sister, Maggie. He was called up several times by village people and the government to get rid of man-eating tigers and leopards.
General Information
Altitude: 385-1100m above sea level
Annual Rainfall: 1400mm - 2800mm
Temperature range: 4C in winter to 42C in summer.
Open for tourists from 15 November to 15 June.
Getting there:
The head quarters of Corbett Tiger Reserver are at Ramnagar. By road it is connected to Delhi, Moradabad, Bareilly and Nanital. State transport buses ply from Delhi, Moradabad and Haldwani to Ramnagar. By rail tourists can reach Ramnagar by taking a train from New Delhi.
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Inserting Images, and Tables
Images, tables and forms can be inserted/created in your
document using the Composition Toolbar. Let us
insert a table and copy the General Information about Corbett
National Park into it. Click on the "Table" button on the
composition toolbar. And choose the table dimensions to be 5 rows
and 2 columns with your mouse. Clicking on the 5th row in 2nd
column will create a default table with those dimensions.
To fill the table with our pre-written text, just cut ("Ctrl+X") the corresponding text and paste ("Ctrl+V") it in corresponding cell of the table. After you are done, the table should look like the one below:
| Altitude | 85-1100m above sea level |
| Annual Rainfall | 1400mm - 2800mm |
| Temperature range | 4C in winter to 42C in summer |
| Open for tourists | 15 November to 15 June |
| Getting there | The head quarters of Corbett Tiger Reserver are at Ramnagar. By road it is connected to Delhi, Moradabad, Bareilly and Nanital. State transport buses ply from Delhi, Moradabad and Haldwani to Ramnagar. By rail tourists can reach Ramnagar by taking a train from New Delhi. |
With the basic table constructed, you can change the table properties by activating the table i.e. bring the cursor in the table and then click on the "Table" button on the Composition Toolbar. In the Table Properties dialog, you can set various properties for the table, cell, row or a column, e.g. background colour for table or cell, table caption, table alignment, table or column width, etc.
For a detailed treatment of various properties of table, the reader is referred to section Adding Tables to your Web Pages in the &brandShortName; Help documentation.
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Advanced Styles
Nvu allows the users to create or edit cascading style sheets with the help of its inbuilt style sheet editor named "CaScadeS". CaScadeS has the ability of using either internal or external style sheets for documents being edited. Details on how to use CaScadeS are out of scope of this tutorial. However, the user is directed to using style sheets in the main Help section.
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Publishing Your Document(s)-Basics
You can publish your documents using Nvu's built-in the Site Manager. The visibility of the site manager can be toggled by clicking the F9 button.
Site manager is being rewritten and hence this part of the tutorial has been postponed till the new version is released.
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&brandShortName; Menu Reference
File
New
Opens a new &brandShortName; window.
Open File...
Displays an Open File dialog where you can select a file from your local disks or network. With &brandShortName; you can view HTML, HTML templates, and text file types.
Open Web Location...
Displays an Open Web Location dialog for writing the URL of the document or choose a local file to open.
Recent Pages
Shows the list of recently edited files.
Close
Closes the current window.
Close All
Closes all open tabs in current window.
Save
Save the file opened in the current active tab.
Save As...
Saves the page you are currently editing giving the option of saving it with a different filename.
Save And Change Character Encoding
Gives an option of changing the "Charset" of the web page before displaying the "Save As..." dialog.
Publish
Opens a Publish dialog for publishing the current page being edited
Publish As...
Opens a Publish dialog for publishing the current page being edited. Behaves the same as Publish\!!
Revert
Undo all changes done to the current document after last save. Reverts to last saved copy of current document.
Export To Text...
Export the contents of the current document to plain text.
Browse Page
View the current page in your default web browser
Page Setup...
Opens the Page Setup options dialog for configuring printing options.
Print Preview
Opens a window showing how the document will look when printed on paper.
Print...
Displays the Print dialog, where you can select the printer, specify the number of printed copies, etc. Click OK to print the page.
Quit
Closes all &brandShortName; windows including any with more than one tab open, and exits &brandShortName; completely. If you happen to select this option with unsaved documents, &brandShortName; will ask you to confirm your choice to prevent accidental exits.
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Edit
Undo
Undoes the last editing action done in the current document. If you later decide you didn't want to undo an action, use the Redo command.
Redo
Redoes the last Undo command.
Cut
Cuts the selected text from the document and stores it in the clipboard. Paste the text elsewhere by using the Paste command.
Copy
Copies the selected text to the clipboard. Paste the text elsewhere by using the Paste command.
Paste
Pastes the text from the clipboard copied using Cut or Copy command to the current cursor location.
Paste Without Formatting
Pastes the text from the clipboard copied using Cut or Copy command to the current cursor position as simple text i.e. formatting information of clipboard text is discarded.
Delete
Deletes the selected text from current document.
Select All
Selects all text in the current document.
Find and Replace...
Displays a dialog where you can enter a text string to be searched and replaced with another text string. Search is performed on the current page.
Find Again
Performs the operation of finding the text string searched with the Find and Replace... command for next occurence of the text. Search is performed on the current page.
Find Previous
Searches for the previous occurrence of the text specified when using the Find and Replace... command.
Check Spelling
Opens the Spell Checker to start the spell check for the text on the current page.
Detach From Template
Detaches the current document being edited from the template to be saved as an html page.
Publish Site Settings
Opens the Site Manager to configure or change settings for the publishing site.
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View
Show/Hide
Composition Toolbar
Toggles the visibility of the composition toolbar, which usually contains standard composition buttons (Anchor, Link, Image, etc.).
Format Toolbar
Toggles the visibility of the format toolbar, which contains various formatting buttons.
Edit Mode Toolbar
Toggles the visibility of edit mode toolbar. Edit Mode Toobar is at the bottom of the &brandShortName; window just above the status bar. You can change to different views like HTML Tags view, HTML Source view, etc with it.
Status Bar
Toggles the visibility of the Status Bar situated at the bottom of the &brandShortName; window.
Rulers
Toggles the visibility of horizontal and vertical rulers.
Customize Toolbar
Main Toolbar
Opens panel to customize Main Toolbar. You can drag and drop buttons from the panel to the main toolbar to add new buttons or vice-versa to remove buttons.
Format Toolbar
Opens panel to customize Format Toolbar. You can drag and drop buttons from the panel to the format toolbar to add new buttons or vice-versa to remove buttons.
Site Manager
Toggles the visibility of Site Manager in the &brandShortName; window.
Normal Edit Mode
Changes to the Normal Edit Mode viewing mode.
HTML Tags
Changes to the HTML Tags viewing mode.
HTML Source
Changes to the HTML Source viewing mode.
Preview
Changes to the Preview viewing mode.
Carriage Returns
Toggles the visibility of carriage returns.
Block Outline
Toggles the visibility of outline of block level elements on the page.
Text Zoom
Smaller
Makes the text smaller on the web page. You can also do this with the mouse (see Increase Text Size for instructions). To restore the text size, press Ctrl+0.
Larger
Displays the text one size larger on the web page. You can also do this with the mouse by holding down the Ctrl key while using the scroll wheel or by pressing + or - to increase or decrease the text size. To restore the text size to the default, press Ctrl+0.
Character Encoding
Allows you to manually change the character encoding on a Web page. &brandShortName; usually does this automatically.
Insert
The Insert menu allows you to insert various HTML elements in the current document being edited.
Image...
Opens a dialog box to insert an image in the current document.
Table...
Opens a dialog box to insert a table in the current document.
Form...
Link...
Opens a dialog box to create a link. If clicked after selecting text in current document, the selected text will be made the link. You can also define Friendship(XFN) properties by clicking "More Properties" in the dialog box.
Named Anchor...
Opens a dialog for typing-in the name to insert a Named Anchor at the current position of the cursor.
Horizontal Line
Inserts a horizontal line in the current document.
HTML...
Opens a dialog to insert HTML code manually. This can also be used to insert comments, script code, etc.
Characters and Symbols...
Opens a dialog box to select special characters or symbols to insert in the current document.
Table of Contents...
Opens a window to insert a Table of Contents at the current position of the cursor. The TOC can be selected to be formed of either Heading Level-1 to Level-6, a <div> or a <p> tag.
Smart Widgets
Inserts Smart Widgets in your document.
Made With Nvu button
Inserts a "Made with Nvu" button in the document.
Calendar
Inserts a calendar type object in the document.
Templates
When working with Templates, you can use this menu item to insert an editable area in your template.
PHP Code
Insert PHP code in your HTML document.
Comment
Insert a comment in your HTML document.
Break Below Image(s)
Inserts a break below images to make the text written besides the image to appear below it.
Format
This menu contains various options to format the document text.
Font
You can choose the font face to apply to the selected text in the current document. You can select the desired font face from the list containing all the available fonts installed on your system.
Size
By selecting Smaller or Larger you can change the size of text being viewed in Nvu.
Selecting x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, or xx-large changes the font size of selected text in the current document.
Text Style
You can select the HTML Text Style which will be applied to the selected text in the document.
Bold
Makes the selected text to appear bold. E.g. bold text
Italic
Makes the selected text to appear italicized. E.g. italic text
Underline
Underlines selected text. E.g. underlined text
Strikethrough
Applies a strikethrough on selected text. E.g. struck-through text
Superscript
Makes the selected text to appear as superscript. E.g.superscript text.
Subscript
Makes the selected text to appear as subscript. E.g. subscript text.
Fixed Width
Makes the text appear as fixed width. E.g. fixed width text.
Non Breaking
HTML breaks down multiple spaces to a single one. To mark non-breaking space use this option after selecting the space in the document. E.g. 3 nonbreaking spaces here.
Emphasis
Makes the text appear emphasized. E.g. emphasized text
Stronger Emphasis
Gives the selected text a stronger emphasis. E.g. strong emphasized text.
Citation
Defines the selected text as citation. E.g. Citation text
Abbreviation
Indicates the text is an abbreviated form. E.g. UN
Acronym
Defines the start of an acronym. E.g. WWW
Code
Defines the selected text as computer code text. E.g. code
text
Sample Output
Defines the selected text as sample computer code. E.g. sample code
Variable
Defines the selcted text as a variable. E.g. variable
Text Color...
Opens the color picker popup window to choose the color for selected text.
Writing Direction
Gives the choice of writing the text as Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left. The slected text should be block-level and not inline text.
Discontinuing Text Styles
Discontinues the application of any text styles being used from the current position of the cursor.
Discontinue Link
Discontinues the text to be link text from current position of cursor.
Remove Named Anchors
Removes the selected named anchor.
Paragraph
Gives the option to tag the selected text as Body Text, Paragraph, Heading Level-1 to Level-6, Address, or preformatted text.
List
Start a list with an option for various list types, namely, Bulleted, Numbered, Term or Definition. Choosing List Properties opens a dialog box to manually edit list properties.
Increase Indent
Increases the indent of the selected block of text.
Decrease Indent
Decreases the indent of the selected block of text.
Align
Lets you select the alignment for the selected text. You can make the text to be center aligned, left aligned, right aligned or simply justified text.
Positioning Grid
Opens a dialog box to set the resolution in pixels for moving a layer.
Advanced Properties
Opens the "Advanced Property Editor" where you can manually edit/add HTML attributes, Inline Styles, or even Javascript events.
Page Colors and Background...
Opens a window to select Page Colors and Background. Users can select the color of Normal text, Link text, and Active and Visited link text. You can also choose the background color for your web page and optionally attach a background image to the page too.
Page Title and Properties...
Opens up the "Page Properties" window where you can add the Title, Author, and Description information for your web page. You can also specify the language and writing direction you will be using in the current web page document. To use this page as a template you can check the "This page is a template" check box.
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Table
This menu enables you to create/edit tables in an HTML document.
Insert
Opens a sub menu with choices for various table editing/creating options.
Table
Opens a dialog box to choose various properties of table to be inserted at the current location of the cursor. Users can choose the size of table by clicking on the shown table grid or choose precise table size. Other cell properties like cellspacing, cellpadding, etc can also be set.
Row Above
Inserts an empty row above the currently active table row.
Row Below
Inserts an empty row below the currently active table row.
Column Before
Inserts an empty column before the currently active table column.
Column After
Inserts an empty column after the currently active table column.
Cell Before
Inserts an empty cell before the currently active table cell.
Cell After
Inserts an empty cell after the currently active table cell.
Select
Selects various components of the currently active table for editing.
Table
Select the whole table.
Row
Select the currently active row.
Column
Select the currently active column.
All Cells
Select all cells. This is different from selecting the whole table, as changes will be applied individually to all cells rather than the table.
Delete
Opens submenu to delete various table components.
Table
Delete currently active table. User with caution, all table data will be lost.
Row(s)
Delete currently active row or selected rows of table.
Column(s)
Delete currently active column or selected columns of table.
Cell(s)
Delete currently active cell or selected cells of table.
Cell Contents
Delete contents of active cell.
Join With Cell to the Right
Merge current table cell with the cell immediately to its right.
Split Cell
Split a cell which has a colspan value of more than 1.
Create Table from Selection
Creates a table from the selected text. A row is created for each paragraph of selected text. Column separations can be chosen to be either of comma (,), space ( ), or a user defined character.
Table or Cell Background Color...
Opens a dialog box to edit table or cell background color.
Table Properties...
Opens the table and cell properties editing window. You can change all table and cell properties using the simple GUI.
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Tools
Markup Cleaner
Opens the Markup Cleaner window. Markup cleaner tidies up the html code by removing extra <br> tags, empty blocks, etc.
Validate HTML
Opens a window to show current document's validation results as given by W3C's HTML validator.
CSS Editor
Opens CaScadeS the inbuilt CSS editor for editing CSS style rules.
Extensions
Opens the Extension manager which can be used to install or remove installed extensions. Extensions adds new features to &brandShortName;.
Themes
Opens the Theme Manager which can be used to install or uninstall themes for &brandShortName;.
Web Development
Opens various tools packaged with &brandShortName; for web developers.
Javascript Console
Opens Javascript console window.
Java Console
Opens Java console window.
Preferences
Opens the Preferences window to change personal preferences for &brandShortName;
Help
Help Contents
Opens the Help Viewer window.
&brandShortName; Website
Opens &brandShortName;'s website in your default browser.
FAQ
Opens &brandShortName;'s FAQ page in your default browser.
Bug Reports and Suggestions
Opens &brandShortName;'s bug report and suggestions page in your default browser.
Developer's Community
Opens &brandShortName;'s Developer's website in your default browser.
Localizing Nvu
Opens the web page with instructions on how to start the Nvu localization process.
Forums
Opens &brandShortName; Forums website in your default browser.
Tip of the Day
Displays a small window with the Tip of the Day.
About &brandShortName;
Displays a dialog box with information about &brandShortName;, including the current version and a brief list of credits.
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