Actually, I find Dreamweaver's CSS editing features to be extremely handy. What Tim is referring to is how Dreamweaver interprets and displays complex CSS in "design mode". True, I agree it is lacking in this area... In effect, it is yet another browser (it handles CSS rules differently than FFX, Opera, IE, Safari, etc... the engine is most like IE but there are differences...) so don't rely on it for exact positioning & size. For simple things it works just fine. It also has a Firebug-style DOM tree navigator that helps you remember what rule is getting inherited by things as you click on it which is a huge time saver while building up CSS rules.
But by all means, you can and should take advantage of the CSS editing capabilities it has (especially if you already are using it for all the other features.) It is much, much faster than typing in CSS rules by hand. Test the file locally, either by running Apache locally or just dragging it into different browser windows. You can always work on CSS in the <head> for testing & development & using it within Dreamweaver, then move it to the body before sending it via emailing (or use the pre-mailer page Matt sent.) Geoff On Jan 24, 2008 6:39 AM, Big Moxy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jennifer, > > Forget about Dreamweaver. It does a terrible job of supporting CSS > formatting. It's best to use your local system for testing CSS formats. > > Tim > > > Jennifer Knowles wrote: > > Can I put the <style> tag below the body tag instead of in the head? I > > am using CSS in an HTML email (not spam by the way) and have heard you > > want to do this for web based clients that chop off the head section. I > > just wanted to make sure this was ok. It seems to work ok for > > Thunderbird on my mac. The CSS doesn't work though when I am authoring > > in Dreamweaver. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
