Adding text to Web pages


    You can add text to your page by typing directly in the document window, copying text from another application and pasting it into the page, or importing text from another application into a table on the page (see Adding text to tables.) You can also add text to the page using containers, such as layout text boxes on a layout grid or in layers. Containers make it easy to rearrange the position of the text on the page by moving or aligning the boxes. To add text to a layout grid, you must use a layout text box. See Adding content to the layout grid.

    By default, when you drag to select an entire paragraph of text, GoLive does not select the enclosing element tags (for example <p> and </p>). As a result, when you copy the selected paragraph and paste it into the page, the text doesn't become a new paragraph. You can use the markup tree bar in the Layout Editor to quickly select the enclosing tags.

To add text directly to a page or container on the page:

  1. Click inside the page, layout text box, table cell, or layer to place the insertion point.
  2. Type the text, or choose Edit > Paste to paste any text that you copied.
  3. TipYou can also drag selected text from another page into the document window or from your collection of site assets in the Library palette. (See Using snippets and Using components.)

To copy text:

    In the Layout Editor, select the text that you want to copy, and choose Edit > Copy. You can also hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and drag the selected text to create a copy at a new location.

To copy a paragraph of text, including the element tags (<p> and </p>):

  1. Click anywhere in the paragraph that you want to copy.
  2. Click the tag (<p>, <h1>, etc.) in the markup tree bar at the bottom of the document window.
  3. Click a tag in the markup tree bar to select the entire element.
    Click a tag in the markup tree bar to select the entire element.
  4. Choose Edit > Copy.