Macromedia® Dreamweaver® MX 2004 Unleashed

Chapter 11. Behaviors

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Attaching Behaviors

• Calling JavaScript

• Change Property

• Check Plug-In

• Check Browser

• Drag Layer

• Go to URL

• Jump Menu

• Play Sound

• Pop-Up Message

• Preload Images

• Set Nav Bar Image

• Set Text

• Show-Hide Layers

• Swap Image/Swap Image Restore

• Validate Form

• Show Pop-Out Menu

In many cases, you may want to add functionality to your Web page. Often, Web developers will use the famous pop-out window or even make layers appear and disappear. What's great about these behaviors is that Dreamweaver writes all the JavaScript to make these behaviors happen. This can be a tremendous help to those not wanting to learn JavaScript and a time-saver for those who do know it.

What's important to know about behaviors is that they're canned JavaScript snippets ...