Dreamweaver MX 2004-Basics

The Insert Bar

The Insert Bar

This is found welded to the top menu ststem above the Document Toolbar.
There are now only 8 tabs to select different views. 'Common' view is selected by default


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Media, Head, Templates, Tables, Frames, Characters, Head and Script have all been removed and re-assigned elsewhere.
HTML, Flash Elements, Favorites have been added.
You can add your own as extensions as in the example above where Mambo tabs have been added.

Layout is used to insert tables, layers and drag out tables onto the screen. Standard View is selected by default.


All the views all perform specialist jobs.

  • Common inserts commonly used objects such as images, links, tables and things made in Flash and Fireworks
  • Layout switches between Standard and Layout view. In Layout view you can draw out tables and cells.
    In Standard view you can insert Layers and Insert tables already containing rows and cells.
  • Tables - now in layout with extra icons for manipulating tables.
  • Frames - now in Common has icons concerned with the layout of frames.
  • Forms has icons all connected to creating forms
  • Templates - now in Common. Used when creating templates
  • Characters - now in Text
  • Media - now in Common. This has buttons for inserting Flash buttons , Flash animated media and Flash text. You insert Java applets and ActiveX objects here too.
  • Head - now in HTML has icons concerned with putting meta tags into the head section of your page.
  • Script - now in HTML is used to put in scripts and serverside includes.
  • Application allows dynamic elements to be inserted
  • Flash Elements - for inserting Flash into documents
  • Favorites - enables you to group and organize commonly used Insert bar buttons.