Choosing a view to work in

Page view and Source view provide very different ways of working with HTML. This table lists some of the advantages and disadvantages of each view.

**Table 3-1: Choosing a view to work in**
View	Advantages	Disadvantages
Page	Displays paragraph and character formatting Provides easy manipulation of tables and absolute positioning of elements Does not require detailed HTML knowledge Focuses on content, not HTML tags Incorporates Script editor	No manual control over the layout of the HTML source code Extra HTML tags added for formatting purposes Some HTML elements not supported Cannot edit Title section of document, although you can use Page Properties to set the title and you can add LINK and STYLE tags from the Format menu
Source	Complete control of HTML source code layout Use formatting menu items as well as edit HTML tags directly Edit the whole document in one window, including HEAD and scripts	Must know HTML Concentration on formatting instead of content

Edit in Source view to keep HTML source from being reformatted If you do not want the editor to alter the layout of your HTML source, use Source view instead of Page view for all of your editing. By default, if you edit in Page view, the source will be reformatted.