Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible

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Part IV

Incorporating Dynamic Data

16. Place your cursor in the cell under the Office Phone label, choose agentPhone from the Bindings

panel, and click Insert.

17. Place your cursor in the cell under the Cell Phone label, choose agentCell from the Bindings

panel, and click Insert.

18. Choose View  ➪ Live Data to test your operation.

19. Choose View  ➪ Live Data again to disable Live Data view, and save your page.

In the next Technique, you add a dynamic image to the page along with some server-side

formatting.

Formatting Dynamic Data

After a field has been incorporated into a page, it acts just like any other text within a tag. Dynamic

text can be formatted with either HTML tags—such as

<h2>, <strong>, or <span>—or styled with

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The easiest method is simply to replace the static placeholder text,

styled as your layout demands, with the dynamic text. The tags and CSS surrounding any dynamic

text can be altered at any time.

It’s also possible to include HTML tags in the stored data. When the data is included in

the page, the browser interprets the HTML normally. For example, you can have a memo

field in an Access database (for data containing more than 255 characters) with italic tags (<i>) sur-

rounding key phrases. This is perfectly acceptable to Access—which sees the tags as just text—and also

perfectly acceptable to Dreamweaver.

Data format ...