The HTML toolbar, which is shown in the next screenshot, is not displayed by default. If you want to display it, go to View | Show HTML Toolbar and select it. The HTML toolbar offers a faster and easy way to insert many frequently used HTML tags. The HTML toolbar has the following buttons:


Explorer : Click this button to preview your page in Interent Explorer.

Bold: Click this button to make the selected text bold.

Italic: Click this button to make the selected text italic.

Underline: Click this button to underline the selected text.

Font: Click this button to go to the next occurrence of the <font> tag.

Color: Click this button to apply the currently selected color to the text you have selected. If you want to change the color, click the arrow on the right to open the font color selector.

Center: Click this button to center the selected paragraph.

Left: Click this button to align left the selected paragraph.

Right: Click this button to align right the selected paragraph.

Justify: Click this button to justify the alignment of the selected paragraph.

Link: Click this button to insert the link tag.

Non Breaking Space: Click this button to insert the &nbsp; symbol.

Paragraph: Click this button to insert the paragraph tag.

Line Break: Click this button to insert a line break.

Heading: Click this button to open a dropdown, where you can select the heading (i.e. H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, or H6) you want to insert.

Preformatted: Click this button to insert the preformatted tag.

Block Quotation: Click this button to insert the block quotation tag.

Image: Click this button to insert the image tag.

Special Character: Click this button to open the list of special characters. Select the character from the list and it will be inserted at the place where the cursor is currently located.

Horizontal Ruler: Click this button to insert a horizontal ruler.

Comment: Click this button to insert an HTML-style comment around the selected text.

Insert List: Click this button to insert a list. If you click on the arrow on the right, this will open a dropdown where you can select the type of list to include. The available lists are: Unordered List, Ordered List and Definition list.

Script: Click this button to insert the script tag.

Applet: Click this button to insert the applet tag.

Form: Click this button to insert the form tag.

Object: Click this button to open the dropdown, where you can choose the type of object you want to insert.

Table: Click this button to insert a table. When you click the button, you will see a dropdown, where you can select the number of columns and rows for your table.

Image Map: Click this button to insert an image map tag.

From Control: Click this button to open the dropdown of controls you can insert.

Frame: Click this button to insert the frame tag.

Record a Keystroke Macro: Click this button to record a keystroke macro. Press the Record button before you start recording and the Stop button, when you are done with the recording. Then you can assign the macro a keyboard shortcut combination and save it for future use.

The buttons in the above list are the default buttons of the HTML toolbar. Of course, if you don’t need some of them or if you need to add more buttons, you can always customize it. To do this, select the small arrow at the right edge of the toolbar, or go to View | Toolbars | Customize. This will open the Customize dialog and from there you can select which buttons to add or remove.