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B
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 ...