Dreamweaver 8 offers a slew of new features directly targeted at helping you design your Web sites with CSS. The unified CSS panel allows you to select an element and see exactly what style rules are being applied to it — even from other styles. However, helpful CSS features are lurking about in the Code view as well.
When editing your code, be it HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc., you can select a block of code and then have Dreamweaver quickly wrap it in comments via the (right-click) contextual menu. This feature has been around for a couple of versions in Dreamweaver. However, Dreamweaver 8 includes some nice additions to this menu: CSS comments and comment hacks. This is really handy when troubleshooting your CSS or applying filters for certain browsers.
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I was pleased to discover that the document tabs found in Dreamweaver 8 are indeed drag-able. You don’t get any sort of live feedback that you may be accustomed to in other tabbed UIs, but the tabs will reorder once you let go. (Mac users will probably just appreciate having document tabs finally.)
To go to the next open document tab in Dreamweaver 8, press Command+` (Mac) or Control+` (Windows). Throw in Shift to this key combination to go to the previous document.
Lastly, if you want to bust out a document tab to its own window, Control-click (single-button mouse) or right-click (multi-button mouse) on the document tab itself and choose the Move to a New Window option. Notice that you can Close Other Files from this contextual menu as well. To return all your stray document windows to document tabs, select Window > Combine as Tabs from the main application menu.
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