- Dreamweaver User Guide
- Introduction
- Dreamweaver and Creative Cloud
- Dreamweaver workspaces and views
- Set up sites
- About Dreamweaver sites
- Set up a local version of your site
- Connect to a publishing server
- Set up a testing server
- Import and export Dreamweaver site settings
- Bring existing websites from a remote server to your local site root
- Accessibility features in Dreamweaver
- Advanced settings
- Set site preferences for transferring files
- Specify proxy server settings in Dreamweaver
- Synchronize Dreamweaver settings with Creative Cloud
- Using Git in Dreamweaver
- Manage files
- Create and open files
- Manage files and folders
- Getting and putting files to and from your server
- Check in and check out files
- Synchronize files
- Compare files for differences
- Cloak files and folders in your Dreamweaver site
- Enable Design Notes for Dreamweaver sites
- Preventing potential Gatekeeper exploit
- Layout and design
- CSS
- Understand Cascading Style Sheets
- Laying out pages using CSS Designer
- Using CSS preprocessors in Dreamweaver
- How to set CSS Style preferences in Dreamweaver
- Move CSS rules in Dreamweaver
- Convert inline CSS to a CSS rule in Dreamweaver
- Work with div tags
- Apply gradients to background
- Create and edit CSS3 transition effects in Dreamweaver
- Format code
- Page content and assets
- Set page properties
- Set CSS heading properties and CSS link properties
- Work with text
- Find and replace text, tags, and attributes
- DOM panel
- Edit in Live View
- Encoding documents in Dreamweaver
- Select and view elements in the Document window
- Set text properties in the Property inspector
- Spell check a web page
- Using horizontal rules in Dreamweaver
- Add and modify font combinations in Dreamweaver
- Work with assets
- Insert and update dates in Dreamweaver
- Create and manage favorite assets in Dreamweaver
- Insert and edit images in Dreamweaver
- Add media objects
- Adding videos in Dreamweaver
- Insert HTML5 video
- Insert SWF files
- Add audio effects
- Insert HTML5 audio in Dreamweaver
- Work with library items
- Using Arabic and Hebrew text in Dreamweaver
- Linking and navigation
- jQuery widgets and effects
- Coding websites
- About coding in Dreamweaver
- Coding environment in Dreamweaver
- Set coding preferences
- Customize code coloring
- Write and edit code
- Code hinting and code completion
- Collapse and expand code
- Reuse code with snippets
- Lint code
- Optimize code
- Edit code in Design view
- Work with head content for pages
- Insert server-side includes in Dreamweaver
- Using tag libraries in Dreamweaver
- Importing custom tags into Dreamweaver
- Use JavaScript behaviors (general instructions)
- Apply built-in JavaScript behaviors
- About XML and XSLT
- Perform server-side XSL transformations in Dreamweaver
- Performing client-side XSL transformations in Dreamweaver
- Add character entities for XSLT in Dreamweaver
- Format code
- Cross-product workflows
- Installing and using extensions to Dreamweaver
- In-App updates in Dreamweaver
- Insert Microsoft Office documents in Dreamweaver (Windows only)
- Working with Fireworks and Dreamweaver
- Edit content in Dreamweaver sites using Contribute
- Dreamweaver-Business Catalyst integration
- Create personalized email campaigns
- Templates
- About Dreamweaver templates
- Recognizing templates and template-based documents
- Create a Dreamweaver template
- Create editable regions in templates
- Create repeating regions and tables in Dreamweaver
- Use optional regions in templates
- Define editable tag attributes in Dreamweaver
- How to create nested templates in Dreamweaver
- Edit, update, and delete templates
- Export and import xml content in Dreamweaver
- Apply or remove a template from an existing document
- Edit content in Dreamweaver templates
- Syntax rules for template tags in Dreamweaver
- Set highlighting preferences for template regions
- Benefits of using templates in Dreamweaver
- Mobile and multiscreen
- Dynamic sites, pages and web forms
- Understand web applications
- Set up your computer for application development
- Troubleshoot database connections
- Removing connection scripts in Dreamweaver
- Design dynamic pages
- Dynamic content sources overview
- Define sources of dynamic content
- Add dynamic content to pages
- Changing dynamic content in Dreamweaver
- Display database records
- Provide and troubleshoot live data in Dreamweaver
- Add custom server behaviors in Dreamweaver
- Building forms using Dreamweaver
- Use forms to collect information from users
- Create and enable ColdFusion forms in Dreamweaver
- Create web forms
- Enhanced HTML5 support for form elements
- Develop a form using Dreamweaver
- Building applications visually
- Build master and detail pages in Dreamweaver
- Build search and results pages
- Build a record insert page
- Build an update record page in Dreamweaver
- Building record delete pages in Dreamweaver
- Use ASP commands to modify database in Dreamweaver
- Build a registration page
- Build a login page
- Build a page that only authorized users can access
- Securing folders in Coldfusion using Dreamweaver
- Using ColdFusion components in Dreamweaver
- Test, preview, and publish websites
- Troubleshooting
Use this topic to learn how to use CSS Designer panel to apply and edit gradients to your web page background.
Using the CSS Designer panel, you can apply gradients to the background of your websites. The gradient property is available in the background category.
Click adjacent to the gradient property to open the gradients panel. Using this panel, you can:
- Choose colors from different color models (RGBa, Hexadecimal, or HSLa). Then, save different color combinations as color swatches.
- To reset the new color to the original color, click the original color (K).
- To change the order of the swatches, drag the swatches to the required position.
- To delete a color swatch, drag the swatch out of the panel.
- Use color stops to create complex gradients. Click anywhere between the default color stops to create a color stop. To delete a color stop, drag the color stop out of the panel.
- Specify the angle for linear gradient.
- To repeat the pattern, edit background-repeat property.
- Save custom gradients as swatches.
Let's understand the following code:
background-image: linear-gradient(57deg,rgba(255,255,255,1.00) 0%,rgba(21,8,8,1.00) 46.63%,rgba(255,0,0,1.00) 100%)
- 57deg: Indicates the angle of the linear gradient
- rgba(255, 255, 255, 1.00): Color for the first color stop
- 0%: Indicates color stop
Only '%' values for color stops are supported in Dreamweaver. If you use other values such as, px or em, Dreamweaver reads them as 'nil'. Also, Dreamweaver does not support CSS colors and if you specify these colors in the code, such colors are read as 'nil'.
Rendering gradients in web browsers
When you use gradients as background, you can configure Dreamweaver to render the gradients appropriately on different web browsers. Dreamweaver adds appropriate vendor prefixes to the code that enables web browsers to display gradients suitably.
Dreamweaver can write the following vendor prefixes along with w3c format:
- Webkit
- Firefox
- Opera
By default, Dreamweaver writes vendor prefixes for Webkit and Dreamweaver Live View. You can choose the other required vendors from the Preferences dialog box (Preferences > CSS Styles).
For Box shadow, Webkit and w3c prefixes are always generated irrespective of whether you have selected them in the Preferences or not.
Any changes to the gradients are reflected in the vendor-specific syntaxes too. If you open an existing file containing vendor-specific syntaxes in Dreamweaver CC, ensure that you choose the required vendor prefixes in Preferences. Because, by default, Dreamweaver updates only Webkit, and Dreamweaver Live View-related code when you use or change gradients. So, the other vendor-specific syntaxes in your code do not get updated.
Swap background images and gradients
You can change the order (in which they appear in the code) of the background images and gradients with a single click.
Click the arrow next to the adjacent to the url or the gradient property in CSS Designer.
Dreamweaver CC contains a basic implementation of the swap background feature. When you have multiple values or images, swap may not work as expected. Also, suppose that you have an image, second image, and then a gradient applied to the background. Swapping the gradient results in the following order: gradient, second image, first image.