CSS Styles Panel and DIV Draw tool

In Dreamweaver CS6 Creative Cloud, how do I access the CSS styles palate/panel and is there a DIV DRAW tool, or do you resort to the tracing tool to draw website layouts?

DW is not a graphics app. You cannot draw layouts on screen. You need to use CSS code to create the basic layout and HTML for your structure.
You may find it helpful to jump start your projects with one of the pre-built CSS Layouts in Dreamweaver CS6.
Go to File > New > Blank Page > HTML > Select one of the Layouts in the 3rd panel and hit the Create button. SaveAs filename.html.
Learn to use CSS floats, margins and padding to align elements.
http://alt-web.com/DEMOS/3-CSS-boxes.shtml
Centering Pages, Images and other elements with CSS
http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Centering_web_pages_and_other_elements_with_CSS-16640.html
Nancy O.

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What do u mean by saying this?? Drag & Drop is possible for
components example Jtree , jtable .These are placed on containers like JApplet, Applet or frame .
So the answer is yes !
there is a seprate package devoted to Drag & Drop.

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Hi all
I'm relativley new to the CC but I'm having alot of fun learning how to use dreamweaver, But now comes where I get confused. I'm learning from Lynda.com "Dreamweaver and WordPres Core Concepts" and as I follow the tutorial regarding the actual structure of wordpress themes I have different panels to the tutour.
As you can see from the pics I have a different set up and this makes it very hard to follow the tutour.
I have tried the windows menu but there is no CSS Style Panel, plus I have media, sources, selectors, and properties. Apparently the tutour is also usin CC.
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I'm not familiar with the Dreamweaver/WordPress videos on lynda.com, but if the tutorials are showing the CSS Styles panel, it means that it was recorded on Dreamweaver CS6 or earlier.
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I've recently started using Dreamweaver, and am learning
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This did not happen before / yesterday.
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Adendum;
It's also happens to the Tag panel, and Properties.
This even happens if no style sheet is linked
??????

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I'm having a heck of a time getting my CSS Styles Panel to show the styles from my attached style sheet. Yesterday it worked as usual and today it doesn't. I feel like I've tried all of my options. Usually I work in 'All' instead of 'Current' so I can see the entire list and not have to reference the actual CSS page. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Also, even though I have an attached style sheet, every time I made a new style it puts it in my HTML page. So that's probably related as well.
Also, this is the code link that is in my HTML: <link href="Alto.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
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Unable to Edit CSS style panel to change Wiget background colors

Hello my name is Gabriel and Im designing a website using the Sprymenu Bar: Menu Bar 1 that I found on the adobie free template 1.
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Hi,
they work with an background-image, look for example here (it's from widgets of this
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Is it me or is the new CSS Styles panel so much harder to use? It shows way too much now and it slows me down when wanting to quickly change CSS elements.
Really missing the previous Properties panel from CS6. It only showed the properties that I actually used and was much more compact and easier to work with.
Adobe should have given users a choice of what type of style panel to use in CC.
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You can't bring back the old one as it stands now. Filing an official request for it here may help though:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
It is something that has come up a lot recently.
Here is some info on working with it: http://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/css-designer.html
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Using CSS Designer panel, when I try to select a background image, I use the little folder icon (browse) and when I click on my Images folder the window closes. Anyone get this result?

Hi All,
This issue has been fixed in the latest Dreamweaver CC 2014.1 update, which is now live.
We would encourage all of you to give it a try and would love to know your experience around it.
Please read this post (Dreamweaver October 2014 release is now live! Read this first.) before you proceed with the installation.
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I do not know what I did, but if I am in Code, Split, Design, or Live view the CSS Panel I have docked on the right does not minimize. It used to but no longer. I did not explicitly change any preferences. I just know it is something simple but I am stumped for now.
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Hi Jerry,
Did you try resetting the workspace in the application toolbar?
Please read more about customizing the Dreamweaver workspace
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/using/WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-7f82a.h tml
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Is there a way to get Dreamweaver to display style in design
view when the css files are in virtual folders?
Have tried using ASP (Vbscript) snippet to write in the
server URL and using Liveview, but still doesn't display. It
appears that DW only recognizes hard coded relative links or hard
coded full URLs.
Browser displays these documents with no errors.
Please Help! I have users who will be confused attempting to
edit the documents without visible style, and need to use the
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> Is there a way to get Dreamweaver to display style in
design view when the
> css
> files are in virtual folders?
Try using Design Time Stylesheets.
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the following:
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I am using Adobe Illustator CC.
I am trying to export all of the charter styles as CSS. However the CSS panel is not generating the correct style.
Right now, in the Character Styles Panel and CSS Properties Panel I have 3 styles (Default, h1, h2)
This is how they are defined in the Character Styles Panel:
1. [Normal Character Style]:Helvectic Neue LT Std, 55 Roman, 16px
2. h1: Helvectic Neue LT Std, 25 Ultra Light, 35px
3. h2: Helvectic Neue LT Std, 45 Light, 18px
HOWEVER
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This is how they are defined in the CSS Properties Panel:
1. [Normal Character Style]:
.NormalCharacterStyle
font-family : Helvetica Neue LT Std;
font-size : 16px;
color : #19131F;
color : rgb(25, 19, 31);
2. h1:
.h1
font-family : Helvetica Neue LT Std;
font-size : 35px;
letter-spacing : 0.53px;
color : #FFFFFF;
color : rgb(255, 255, 255);
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3. h2:
.h2
font-family : Helvetica Neue LT Std;
font-size : 18px;
text-transform : uppercase;
color : #FCFCFC;
color : rgb(252, 252, 252);
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CSS cannot render typographical multiple weight fonts simply because that's just not how it works. All CSS does is reference a physical font file and its properties and while it's possible to use the font-weight and font-style attributes to make standard fonts lighter or bolder it does not compare to anything you would do with the font in a real design environment. That and of course you still need to define fallback/ substitution options - the Helvetica Neue you are referencing is exclusively available on Apple systems only and even if what you are trying worked off the bat, it would be useless on alternate devices that have no access to the font.
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I have just downloaded Dreamweaver & the CSS Styles panels is missing?

The Styles panel has been replaced with the CSS Designer panel. Layout mode has been gone for some years, as has drawing AP divs.
The Styles panel didn't offer good access to the legacy CSS attributes and properties, or to management of selectors or sources. CSS designer does all of these much better.
Layout mode was removed in favor of the separation of content from presentation approach that CSS provides. Drawing AP divs has never been a good solution for page layout because of the many problems encountered when using these positioned elements as containers for text content.
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Portfolio</title>
<style type="text/css"></style>
<link href="css/jbstyles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css"></style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="mainnav">
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        <li><a href="index.html"><br />
        </a></li>
<li>
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            <li><a href="index.html">          Home</a><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
            <li><a href="portfolio.html">Portfolio</a><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
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      </ul>
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<div id="footer">
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    <p> email: [email protected] ....phone....857•991•5717<br />
</p>
</div>
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</div>
</body>
</html>
Here is the html code above. not sure how to attach my file so get a visual. This is the first time I have used this forum.
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CSS style -Background not showing ?

hi everybody ,
first of all i'm quite new to Dreamweaver and webdesign word so ... sorry if i make mistakes
when trying to prewiew my site , or in dreamweaver itself , i cant see my background (is a .png file made whit photoshop , a simple gradient whit some effects)
i tryed to use the site manage , and set the image default folde , but this didn't resolved anything !
this is my HTML code (oh yes , i'm writing the site in HTML5):
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<link href="CSS/SitoCSS.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="Principale"></div>
</body>
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@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
body {
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          margin-left: 0px;
          margin-top: 0px;
          margin-right: 0px;
          margin-bottom: 0px;
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thank you all
Bye !

Without seeing the live page its difficult to analyse BUT here's a couple of things you could look at:
1) Is the name of your folder really Images with a cap 'I' or is it images with a lower case 'i' ?
Images/sfondo.png
2) Is your png file saved as RGB and not CYMK color space?
3) Looking at what you have posted the path to your bg image is probably incorrcet
background-image: url(Images/sfondo.png);
Should be: (note the ../ infront of the Images folder name):
background-image: url(../Images/sfondo.png);

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