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You can create any kind of floating panel or inspector without the size and layout limitations of Property inspectors.
A custom Property inspector should still be your first choice for setting the properties of the current selection. However, custom floating panels offer more room and flexibility for displaying information about the entire document or multiple selections.
Dreamweaver already has several built-in floating panels that are accessible from the Window menu; you can add your own panels to this menu using the extensible menus feature. (These built-in panels are part of the core Dreamweaver code; for this reason, you will not find corresponding Floating Panel files for them in the Configuration folder.) For more information on adding items to the menu system, see "Customizing Dreamweaver," in Using Dreamweaver.
Custom Floating Panel files are HTML files that reside in the Configuration/Floaters folder inside the Dreamweaver application folder. The BODY
of a Floating Panel file contains an HTML form; event handlers attached to form elements may call JavaScript code that performs arbitrary edits to the current document.
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