You set the background color for the page in 

Chapter 4,  Tutorial: 

Creating a Table based Page Layout 

 by using the Modify Page 

Properties dialog box. When you set page properties in this manner, 

Dreamweaver writes a CSS style that is internal to the document.

5.

Click plus (+) to expand the cafe_townsend.css category.

6.

Click the p rule.

All of the properties and values that you defined in the external style 

sheet for the p rule appear in the Properties pane below.

7.

In the Document window, click once anywhere in either of the two 

paragraphs that you just formatted.

8.

In the CSS Styles panel, click Current at the top of the panel and 

examine your CSS styles. In Current mode, the CSS panel shows you a 

summary of properties for the current selection. The properties shown 

correspond to the properties for the p rule in the external style sheet.

In the next section, you'll use the CSS Styles panel to create a new rule. 

Using the CSS Styles panel to create a new rule is much easier than typing 

the rule out by hand, as you did when you initially created the external 

style sheet.

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