Inline Attributes Dialog
To open the Inline Attributes window, select an inline, then choose Element
> Inline Attributes... or click the Change inline object button
in
the Object Editors palette. You can use its controls to resize an
inline, change its placement on the page, and more.
The Inline Type menu button allows you to choose among four types of
inlines to manipulate (Whitespace, Image, Applet, and Plug-In). There's
also an As Is type for dealing with multiple inlines simultaneously.
When you select an inline in your document and bring up the dialog, the
type of inline is selected for you. You can change it by choosing the
appropriate option from the menu button.
Although the attributes for each inline vary, there are certain items
on the dialog that remain from one type to another (except the As Is
and Whitespace types, which contain only the basic attributes described
below). They are:
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Inline Type menu button: allows you to choose which type of
inline you want to modify. The choices are As Is, Whitespace, Image,
Applet, and Plug-In. See the reference card on the inline type for
details on attributes specific to that inline.
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Width and Height fields: let you resize the inline.
Use the associated menu buttons to specify whether you want the
measurement in pixels or percentages. Enter a percentage if you want to
specify how much of the page the inline should occupy. See also the Resizing Images task card.
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The Unset option means that you don't want the width
and/or height attributes written into the HTML; the browser calculates
the size. On most browsers, this prevents the page from being displayed
while the image is being loaded.
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Alignment menu button: lets you specify how to align the
inline with the surrounding text. You can align the image in one of the
following ways:
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Image Top to Line Top
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Image Top to Text Top
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Image Middle to Text Middle
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Image Middle to Text Baseline
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Image Bottom to Text Baseline
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Image Bottom to Text Bottom
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Image Left with Textflow
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Image Right with Textflow
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Advanced Options toggle: allows you to display the following
additional attributes:
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You can add Padding to your inline; this includes vertical, horizontal,
and border padding. All padding values are in pixels.
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The aspect ratio of the inline is displayed.
In addition to the above attributes, the Image, Applet, and Plug-In
inline types have their own specific attributes. For information on a
particular inline, see one of the following Reference cards: