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Adding Rules, Anchors and Special Characters

Horizontal Rule

1. In the Common tab of the Insert toolbar, click the Horizontal Rule icon.
2. You can change the width, height, and alignment of the rule in the Rule properties panel. (see WARNING)

Anchors

An anchor marks the location of material in your page. Anchors can be useful if you want to bring users directly to that material, rather than just to the top of the page. To insert an anchor, in the Common tab of the Insert panel, click the Named Anchor icon.

• The Named Anchor dialog box will require that you enter a name for your anchor. The name should include no spaces.
• A link to the anchor should include the URL of the page with #anchorname appended at the end. The link to the section on special characters on this page, for example, might look like this:
  
  http://library.csun.edu/ealtman/dwmorestuff.html#spechar
  
  (just an example -- the URL is actually a bit longer, but I wanted to it on one line)

Special Characters

You can insert special characters by selecting the Characters tab in the Insert panel, which contains the most common special characters used in English-language documents.

If you selec the Other Characters icon at the far right, the "Insert Other Character" dialog containing additional non-English and scientific characters will pop up. Click the character you wish to insert, then click OK.

WARNING: Dreamweaver uses deprecated markup to achieve this formatting. Although the current W3C validating tool and accessibility checkers don't seem to mind, it may pose a problem for your page in the future.