Change border properties

1. If the border whose properties you want to change is currently displayed, right-click the border and choose Properties > Page Area or,

• If the border is not currently displayed, click the page area as a whole to make it active and choose Format > Page Area. Then choose the command for the border. (For example, to set top border properties, choose Format > Page Area > Top Border.)

2. On the General tab, you can set the following:

• Whether the border displays

• Whether to display the border only when navigation links are active

• Whether to display scroll bars when the contents overflow the border

• The border’s text margins, in pixels. The text margins determine where text and images you add to the border appear. You can type an amount from 0 to 500 for each margin.

• Whether the border size is fixed or based on window size and the size of the border in pixels

3. On the Background tab, you can set the following:

• A background color for the border

• A background image for the border

4. On the Edge tab, you can create an edge effect that will not display in previews or on the web. An edge is a band of color you can display on one or more sides of the border. You can set the following:

• The width of each edge in pixels and whether the edge has a “sculpted” effect. You can specify a size from 0 to 255 pixels. To add black sculpting below or to the right of an edge, click the dark band below or to the right of the edge setting. To add white sculpting above or to the left of the edge, click the light band above or to the left of the edge setting.

• An edge color. You can only specify one color that will apply to all edges.

5. On the Default Text tab, you can set the border's default text characteristics. This setting is most important when you are creating or modifying a page layout.

6. On the HTML Link Colors tab you can set explicit link colors for active and visited links. This setting is used only when you publish to the Web.

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Notes

• You can also change border properties by right-clicking the page in the map and choosing Properties > Page. Then click the Page Area tab and click the button for the border you want to change.

• If you create an edge, CuteSITE Builder adds the edge setting to the margin setting when determining where to place text and images. For example, if you set a left margin of 5 pixels and a left edge of 10 pixels, text will begin appearing 15 pixels from the left side of the border.

• To assign the priority of borders on a page, right-click the page in the map and choose Properties. In the Properties dialog box, click the Page Area tab. Drag the borders in the list to set priority.

• Border priority determines how CuteSITE Builder displays overlapping borders. The border you specify as first priority reaches both its available corners. The border with second priority reaches all corners not already reached by the first border, and so on.

• Border priority also determines how CuteSITE Builder allocates space if two or more borders have sizes greater than the current window can accommodate.

• If you add edges to borders, the edges will not appear when you publish to the Web.

• Next, previous, up, and down navigation links are activated when the page that contains the border participates in an up level link or appears on a sequence .

• You can place automatic next, previous, up, and down navigation links in one particular border, and set that border to display only when the navigation links are needed; that is, when the page that contains the border participates in an up level link or appears on a sequence . Use the Page Layout Editor to create this useful effect in your own Web designs.

• As you work in a Border Properties dialog box, you can click Apply to save and see the effect of your current changes without closing the dialog box. Moving to another tab is the same as clicking Apply.