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Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible
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Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible

by Joseph Lowery
March 2009
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
1321 pages
46h 24m
English
Wiley
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Part III
Adding Advanced Design Features
4. Specify whether you want your radio buttons inserted on separate lines using the <br> tag,
or automatically formatted in a table.
5. Finally, click OK.
FIGURE 14-6
Use the Radio Group dialog box to create an entire set of radio buttons at one time.
Creating Form Lists and Menus
Another way to offer your user options, in a more compact form than radio buttons and checkboxes,
is with form lists and menus. Both objects can create single-line entries in your form that expand or
scroll to reveal all the available options. You can also determine how deep you want the scrolling list
to be—that is, how many options you want displayed at one time.
Drop-down menus
A drop-down menu should be familiar to everyday users of computers: The menu is initially dis-
played as a single-line text box with an arrow button at the right end; when the button is clicked, the
other options are revealed in a list or menu. (Whether the list pops up or drops down depends on its
position on the screen at the time it is selected. Normally, the list drops down, unless it is close to
the bottom of the screen.) After the user selects one of the listed options and the mouse is released,
the list closes, and the selected value remains displayed in the text box.
Insert a drop-down menu in Dreamweaver as you would any other form object, with one of the fol-
lowing actio
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