Dreamweaver Question

DW is very one sided on CSS, and not very universal, if you want a style editor get a independant one, from places like download.com, tucows etc, one I played around with once was called easystyle, click of a button and your done, listed almost every style option, very easy to use.

Learning CSS is a better way thou

If you have mutli pages you may want to change at some date, use external style sheets (a file with .css extension added by a tag) will save you lots of time editing at a later date.

On the DW screen at the top where you see File, Edit, View, Insert, Modify and Text.... click on Text and then choose "CSS Styles" and then "New Style".
Next, where you select Type, select "Redefine HTML Tag. You should see the H1 - H6's there. Then choose which you want to add the css properties to and click OK. You should be able to take it from there.

Someone may have a better way to do this but that is how I figured it out.

There are some good tutorials on css here and they are specific to DW as they also do extensions for DW as well.

Thanks for the help. Basically, I understood that if you want to place a style property into an indivudual tag, you have to do it manually in dw.

The suggestion about using the style menu in dw to redifine html tags was not what I wanted. I wanted to give a style property to one individual tag, not all the h1 tags in the site.

thanks for suggesting easystyle. I downloaded it but didn't try it out yet.

You'll have to do it the way disaster-master said but make sure that you check 'This document only' then it'll just apply that style to that page only.

Try TopStyle - they have a free lite version.

http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/index.asp

It integrates nicely with HomeSite (ships with it actually) and apparently with Dreamweaver although I haven't actually tried the latter.

In HS it is as simple as rightclicking the tag, edit, style. TopStyle fires up with a dropdown list of all the valid attributes for that tag.

Webmistress's suggestion will put style tags on the individual page and apply the style to all of a given class or style on that page, whereas I wanted to apply it to one instance of the tag.

I'll be downloading topstyle now.

Sounds great. I hope its really free.

you just want to do it once, for one tag?

go into the text editor.

Add style="declaration: value;" to that element.

declaration is of course what you want to change (color, font-family, whatever) and value is its value.

Suzanne

Thanks all!