Button bar
The actions are (from left to right): New, Open, Save, Preview, Cut, Copy, Paste, Find, Check HTML
The "Special characters" menu offers all HTML standard special characters (HTML entities).
Tool bar
The buttons insert HTML tags with the same name as the label of the button. The tag is inserted at the current cursor position. If you have selected a part of a text prior to clicking a tool bar button the tag will "wrap" the selected text.
The "HTML 4" and "XHTML 1" buttons insert an HTML 4 or XHTML 1 page template.
Left panel
File panels (a small one on the Common tab and a large one on the Files tab):
- Double-clicking a file opens it
- Dragging an image file to a document inserts an <IMG> tag and sets the path (src) and alt for it. If you have installed a Translator for this image file format it will also set the width and height of the image.
- Dragging a general text file (with MIME type "text/..." but not "text/html") inserts the contents of that file to the document.
- Dragging an HTML file inserts a link to that file into the document. If you want to insert contents of an HTML file you need to hold ALT while dropping the file.
Tag inspectors - a small one on the "Common" tab and a large one on a separate "Inspector" tab
The inspector lists all possible attributes (and values if there are any defined by the language) for a tag inside which the cursor is. The document's doctype (<!DOCTYPE> tag) defines which tags, attributes and values may be used in this document e. g. in a document with "HTML 4.0 Transitional" doctype you may use HTML 4.0 Transitional tags, attributes and values. For more on doctype identification read "Identify document doctype" in Menus.
You can modify the attribute values easily using drop-down menus with possible values, switches or a color selector where appropriate.
Characters tab - entity selector
You can use this tool to insert special characters (HTML entities) to your documents. Double-clicking an entity inserts the entity's HTML code to the document.
Tools - Check HTML

You can open and close the error/warning box by clicking the yellow tab. Double-clicking a warning or error message moves the cursor to the tag that caused the message. The validator is developed by WWW Consortium. It is not our product. The positioning is not acurate after several warnings or errors so fix them first and then check it again.
Tools - Table wizard
You can insert a table using the Table wizard by setting the number of rows, columns, cellspacing, cellpadding and border.
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