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Overview
Although the properties palette does not even have a space on the standard toolbar, it is so important and so often used that it deserves a page of its own.
I’d estimate that at least 50% of changes that you make to the website will involve the properties palette in one way or another. The properties palette, as the name implies, controls the properties of the objects you create and manipulate in NetObjects. Among many other things, the properties palette changes text format, determines what images are displayed, controls what buttons appears in navigation bars, and generates hyperlinks.
Different objects have different property palettes. For example, the properties palette for a text box gives much different options than the properties palette for a picture object.
Properties Palette
To open the properties palette, use the select tool from the standard toolbar to select an object, then choose View->Properties Palette from the menubar. Alternatively, as I have come to do, you can use the keyboard shortcut: after selecting the object, hit F3 to bring up the properties palette.
Below are the palettes for text, navigation bar, and picture objects. Note that there are multiple tabs on each palette, where each tab brings up a different set of properties.
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