Typically, you click an element to select it. If an element is invisible, you may need to make it visible before you can select it. See About invisible elements .
Some objects appear on the page in a place other than where their code is inserted.
For example, a layer can be anywhere on the page, but the code defining the layer is in a fixed location. Dreamweaver displays markers to show the location of the code for invisible elements. To select HTML code without opening the HTML inspector, click a tag in the tag selector at the bottom left of the Document window. The tag selector always shows the tags that control the current selection or cursor location.