Insert - Table (Ctrl+Alt+T) is one of many ways to do it, then when selecting created table you can choose the size and color of border etc. from properties menu.
Yep. That's how I do it. Good ole tables. And you can adjust the cellspacing and cellpadding attributes to increase/decrease the area between your text and the border.
Of course you can use CSS, but I'm an old fashioned Webmaster and still use tables for my boxes.
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If you wanted to go the CSS route, then you can enclose the text in a DIV or SPAN tag and specify a border with CSS for those tags. For example:
Code:
<html>
<body>
<div style="border:1pt solid #000">This text is in a box.</div>
<span style="border:1pt solid #000">This text is also in a box.</span>
</body>
</html>
You can then specify padding for the tags as well.
i believe that you can also use the "textarea" code...
Code:
<textarea>
TEXT
</textarea>
... or something similar, good thing with Dreamweaver you can always fool around with coding due to the auto fill function. you have to fool around with the size of it to fit your text, otherwise you will get a scrollbar for the box.
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