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110 Tutorial: Formatting Your Page with CSS
You set the background color for the page in Chapter 4, “Tutorial:
Creating a Table-based Page Layout” by using the Modify Page
Properties dialog box. When you set page properties in this manner,
Dreamweaver writes a CSS style that is internal to the document.
5.
Click plus (+) to expand the cafe_townsend.css category.
6. Click the p rule.
All of the properties and values that you defined in the external style
sheet for the p rule appear in the Properties pane below.
7. In the Document window, click once anywhere in either of the two
paragraphs that you just formatted.
8. In the CSS Styles panel, click Current at the top of the panel and
examine your CSS styles. In Current mode, the CSS panel shows you a
summary of properties for the current selection. The properties shown
correspond to the properties for the p rule in the external style sheet.
In the next section, you’ll use the CSS Styles panel to create a new rule.
Using the CSS Styles panel to create a new rule is much easier than typing
the rule out by hand, as you did when you initially created the external
style sheet.