Setting Up a Document > Setting document properties > Page properties

Page properties

Use the Page Properties dialog box to specify a variety of options for the page. To open the Page Properties dialog box, choose Modify > Page Properties.

Title specifies the page title that appears in the title bar of the Document window and most browser windows. See Changing the title of a page.

Background Image and Background specify a background image and background color for the page. See Defining a background image or page color.

Text and Links define default colors for text, links, visited links, and active links. See Defining default text colors. You can also control these colors using CSS style sheets; see Applying a custom (class) CSS style.

Left Margin and Top Margin specify the sizes of page margins in the body tag, for Microsoft Internet Explorer only. Netscape Navigator ignores these values, using Margin Width and Margin Height instead. For best cross-browser results, provide margin values for both browsers instead of just one browser; fill in all four margin values instead of just two. To ensure that no margins appear in either browser, set all four values to 0. Dreamweaver doesn't display page margins in the Document window; to see the margins, use Preview in Browser.

Margin Width and Margin Height specify the sizes of page margins in the body tag, for Netscape Navigator only. Internet Explorer ignores these values, using Left Margin and Top Margin instead. For best cross-browser results, provide margin values for both browsers instead of just one browser; fill in all four margin values instead of just two. To ensure no margins in both browsers, set all four values to 0. Dreamweaver doesn't display page margins in the Document window; use Preview in Browser to see the margins.

Document Encoding specifies the encoding used for characters in the document. For English and Western European languages, choose Western. Additional options include Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, Icelandic, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean. If an option for the encoding you want is not available, choose Other to create a document with the encoding your operating system is using. All Asian languages use double-byte encodings.

To change the fonts that Dreamweaver uses to display each encoding, choose Edit > Preferences and select Fonts/Encoding. Note that the fonts you select in the Fonts/Encoding preferences do not affect how visitors see your pages; visitors specify their own fonts (for a given encoding) in their Web browsers. For more information, see Fonts/Encoding preferences.

Tracing Image specifies an image to use as a guide for copying a design. See Using a tracing image. This image is for reference only, and does not appear when the document is displayed in a browser.

Image determines the opacity of the tracing image, from completely transparent to completely opaque.

Document Folder displays the folder in which the current document is saved, if it has been saved.

Site Folder displays the path of the local root folder for the site in which the current document is saved, if it has been saved. See Using Dreamweaver to set up a new site.