- Adding Text
- Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text
- Dragging and Dropping Text
- Using Paste Special
- Applying Headings
- Applying Character Formats
- Applying HTML Text Styles
- Using Preformatted Text
- Adding Line Breaks
- Indenting and Aligning Text with HTML
- Working with Lists
- Inserting Special Characters
- Adding Automatic Dates
- Finding and Replacing
- Finding Text with a Simple Search
- Performing Advanced Text Searches
- Finding and Replacing in Source Code
- Finding and Replacing with a Specific Tag
- Using Regular Expressions for Searching
- Checking Spelling
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Adding Line Breaks
Just as in a word processor, you press Enter (Return) in Dreamweaver to create a new paragraph. This is fine when you want to actually create a new paragraph, but not so great when you just want to move the cursor down a line, as you might want to do when entering an address. That’s because Web browsers (and Dreamweaver) insert a blank line above and below a paragraph, so if you make each line of the address its own paragraph, it looks goofy 
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Paragraphs have whitespace before and after them, which isn’t really appropriate for things like addresses.
What you want to do is add a line break, which moves the cursor down one line without creating a new paragraph. In the code, Dreamweaver adds the HTML <br /> tag to the end of the line.
To insert a line break:
At the end of the line you want to break, press Shift-Enter (Shift-Return).
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At the end of the line you want to break, in the Text category of the Insert panel, select Line Break from the Special Characters pop-up menu.
The text changes 
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After you replace the paragraph tags with line breaks, the address looks better.
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Line breaks are invisible characters in both Dreamweaver and Web browsers, but you can make them visible in Dreamweaver if you want. Choose Edit > Preferences (Dreamweaver > Preferences), and then click the Invisible Elements category. Select the check box next to “Line breaks,” and then click OK. Dreamweaver then displays line breaks in Design view 
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With the appropriate preference enabled, you can see the invisible line break characters.