Button, Radio Group, List/Menu, Jump Menu, Image Field, File Field, Button, Label, and Fieldset. Figure 2.24. The Form objects category contains all the available HTML form objects. [View full size image]   Text Objects As you can see from Figure 2.25, Text objects occupy a section on the Insert bar from which text can be easily formatted. Figure 2.25. Use Text objects when manipulating the look of text in the Document window. [View full size image]   Text objects can be divided into the following categories (moving from left to right): Font Tag Editor: Opens the Font Tag Editor dialog, giving you single-click access to commonly typed tags and attributes. Font Weights and Styles: Allows you to add a bold (<b>) or strong (<strong>) tag as well as an italic (<i>) or emphasis (<em>) tag. Paragraph, Blockquote, & Preformatted: Allows you to format blocks of text with the paragraph (<p>) tag, indent text with the blockquote (<blockquote>) tag, or preserve the formatting of content with the preformatted (<pre>) tag. Headings: Provides three heading options (H1, H2, H3) for your text. Lists: Allows you to pick from three types of lists including ordered list (numbered), unordered list (bulleted), and definition list. Abbreviations and Acronyms: Assign the abbreviation or acronym tag to text within your page. Special Characters: Select from a group of predefined special characters from this menu. The most obvious are listed but you can choose from a character map by selecting the Other Characters option. Although most of the Text objects are readily available from the Properties Inspector or the Text menu, the Text category does provide an interesting piece of functionality in the Font Tag Editor. The Font Tag Editor is best used when hand coding because it allows single-click access to commonly typed tags and attributes. Instead of having to type tag attributes, you can select them from the Font Tag Editor in a GUI interface. HTML Objects You can add various miscallaneous HTML objects directly from this category. For instance, you can add horizontal rules, meta tags, table objects, frame/no frame objects, and script tags. Here's a complete list of objects moving from left to right on the Insert bar: Horizontal Rule: Inserts a straight horizontal line on the page. Using the Properties Inspector, you can change the width and height of the line. Head Tags: This submenu allows you to pick from various head objects including the following: Meta Tags: Meta tags are typically used to describe the contents of the web page. This can be especially useful with HTML validators. Keywords: Similar to the way meta tags describe the page, keywords describe the page and its content for search engines. If you create a site and never register or submit it to any search engine or web directory, you might still get a listing. The reason for that is because search engines run programs called spiders, which gather meta information from different websites. Description: Use the Description meta tag in conjunction with the Keyword meta tag to provide a brief description to potential clients as to what your web page is about. The description you type shows up directly underneath your hyperlink in the results page of the search engine.