Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible

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y the time a visitor sees an active Web page in his or her browser,

its data should blend seamlessly into the rest of the page. As with a

well-crafted form letter, the reader shouldn’t be able to tell where the

basic structure starts and the dynamically generated data begins. Much of

the work in Dreamweaver consists of properly placing and formatting data

into a page layout.

You’re not limited to dynamically integrating basic text into your Web

applications with Dreamweaver. After text is included, you can format its

look and feel on both the client and the server sides. Additionally, you can

include images, form elements such as checkboxes and drop-down lists,

and even multimedia elements such as Flash movies on-the-fly. Finally,

Dreamweaver permits almost any HTML attribute to be dynamically

altered. This chapter explores all the fundamentals necessary for integrating

dynamic data into your Web page.

Working with Dynamic Text

The Bindings panel is the key tool for accessing dynamic text. With a

recordset expanded, any or all of the available fields within it are ready to

be placed on the page. Moreover, after a field is inserted into the page and

selected, the Bindings panel reflects its current data format.

Before you begin including dynamic data, you need to estab-

lish a data source connection and recordset, so be sure you’re

familiar with the techniques described in Chapter ...